Photo: Martin Ennels The following is based on a communication written by the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders and other UN experts. The communication was sent to the Government of Colombia on January 28, 2022, and was recently made public. The communication remained...
Human rights organizations together with the Colombia Free of Fracking Alliance, filed this Thursday before a Circuit Court a charge against the Ministry of the Interior, the ANLA and Ecopetrol, for the violation of the right to prior, free and informed consultation of the Afro-Colombian...
March 30, 2022 We reject the approval of the first fracking pilot project in Colombia, in a context of threats against environmental leaders and the territory. Last Sunday, March 27, 2022, the organization Alianza Colombia Libre de Fracking announced the decision of the Colombian National...
PRESS RELEASE #MissionForLife (#MisiónPorLaVida) Parliamentarians from the United Kingdom and Ireland will participate in the Mission for Life to verify the situation of territorial rights in La Guajira and the Sierra Nevada de Gonawindua. National and international social organizations will be...
We ask that the region be prioritized in the new macro-case and that these events be declared crimes against humanity. Units of the Third Brigade and the Third Division of the Colombian National Army were responsible by action or omission in 10 massacres that left 93 victims, committed by...
Image taken from: Radio Nacional de Colombia Request for URGENT ACTION within each of its functions to the following entities: – To the National Army to immediately cease the homicide of the civilian population of the municipality of Leguízamo in Putumayo, and especially against the...
Image take from: laopinion.com.co The Duque government, ignoring the decision of the Constitutional Court, again insists on imposing the return of aerial spraying with glyphosate, this time in four municipalities of Catatumbo. After Ruling T-413 of 2021 left without effect the approval of the...
Since the middle of 2021, concerns have been raised regarding the Colombian electoral process. The seven firms that did not qualify in the bidding process for the awarding of the contract of the National Civil Registry, which was intended for the logistic and technological administration of the...
We affirm ourselves for life, peace and permanence in the territory. A caravan of various human rights platforms, social organizations, trade unions, alternative media and international organizations, which departed from Bogotá, visited the municipalities of Tame, Fortul, Saravena and Arauquita,...
Image taken from: Colombia Informa GROWER COMMUNITIES IN SOUTHERN BOLIVAR PROTEST AGAINST NON-COMPLIANCE WITH SUBSTITUTION AGREEMENTS AND VIOLENT ATTACKS OF FORCED ERADICATION For more than 15 days peasant communities in the municipalities of Simití, San Pablo, Santa Rosa and Cantagallo, in the...
The Third Prosecutor’s Office delegated to the Sole Court of the Specialized Circuit of Sincelejo announced the sentence in which Juan David Díaz Chamorro was acquitted, considering that there was no evidence of his guilt in crimes for which he was accused by paramilitaries. On March 17,...
Image taken from: Telesur Press Release regarding the pronouncement of the Presidential Advisor for the Stabilization in relation to the request to the Constitutional Court to lift the declaration of the State of the declaration of an unconstitutional state of affairs regarding the security of the...