Originally published in Spanish in: confidencial.com Today, Holy Sunday, we celebrate the return to life of Jesus of Nazareth. What better occasion to remember the inspiring story of love and struggle of Doña Fabiola Lalinde, who died on March 12, 2022, and the search diary of her son Luis...
Originally published in: eltiempo.com (Original language: Spanish) In May there will be hearings in the case of the Cajar collective, which has denounced persecution for 30 years. For the first time, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) will try a case involving illegal surveillance...
Bogotá, Washington, April 8, 2021. The human rights organization Colectivo José Alvear Restrepo – CAJAR – has denounced being a victim of persecution practices for more than 30 years. For this reason, on May 12 and 13, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, the highest court of the...
In Colombia, the massacres and attacks against social leaders between January 2022 and March 2022 occurred at a greater rate than in the same time frame in 2021, according to the Institute for Development and Peace Studies (Instituto de Estudios para el Desarrollo y la Paz, INDEPAZ). In 2022, 48...
Photo: Sit-in by victims of “Otoniel” in front of the Supreme Court of Justice. Inter-Church Justice and Peace Commission. Own translation. Supreme Court of Justice Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) Truth Clarification Commission Unit for the Search for Missing Persons (Unidad de...
On April 5, 2022, the José Alvear Restrepo Lawyers’ Collective -Cajar- requested the Chamber for the Recognition of Truth, Responsibility and Determination of Facts and Conduct -SRVR- of the Special Jurisdiction for Peace -JEP- to impose a precautionary measure against Major General Édgar...
The human rights organizations that accompany communities affected by mining in La Guajira, Cajar, Cinep and Censat, publicly denounce before different government entities the practice of forced evictions that are being committed in the south of this department, vitiated by serious irregularities...
The civil society organizations that make up the Mesa Territorial de Garantías in the department of Putumayo, convened the Verification Mission, carried out last April 2, to the village of El Alto Remanso in the municipality of Puerto Leguízamo, which was accompanied by national and international...
Image taken from : eltiempo.com This workshop leader and human rights defender has not been heard from since November 1992. Story. On Wednesday, November 4, 1992, the workshop leader and human rights defender Gustavo Salgado Ramirez accompanied his daughter, Juana Ibanaxca Salgado, to the...
I have previously written about the tortuous path to the creation of the Special Peace Seats, point 2 of the Peace Accord, and the risks that were being presented in its implementation. This institutional innovation was supposed to contribute to repairing the damage suffered by the victims of...
Imagen: France 24 March 31, 2022 Judges and Magistrates Inter-American Court of Human Rights Costa Rica Topic: Barrios Altos and La Cantuta cases – Supervision of compliance with sentences. Honorable Magistrates, We, the undersigned human rights organizations, write to urge the...
1. On March 28, 2022, the Deputy Minister of Public Health published as an achievement on his personal Twitter account, the approval of the Frontal Warning Labeling adopted by Resolution 810 of 2021 of the Ministry of Health. Such labeling has a circular shape, following the parameters adopted by...