We want the #CourtToSupportTheCommunitiesOfLaGuajira (#CorteRespaldeAComunidadesDeLaGuajira). In 2016 the Constitutional Court ordered different public entities to elaborate a scientific and sociological investigation to evaluate the impact of mining activity on the country’s ecosystems. Not...
Bogotá, March 09, 2022 On March 1, the Colombia-Europe-United States Coordination, the Colombian Platform for Human Rights, Democracy and Development, and the Alliance of Social and Related Organizations socialized with various candidates for Congress the six priority points in the area of...
On February 18, 2022, the Council of State declared inadmissible the tutela filed by José de Jesús Uribe Silva, a humble carpenter victim of a judicial set-up originated in an economic controversy with the magistrate José Alfredo Escobar Araújo, who hired him for a work and ended up sentencing him...
Press release M8, 2022 “Women sustain and transform the world”. Bogotá, March 7, 2022 On March 8, International Working Women’s Day, a large mobilization of women in all their diversity is being called in Bogota to demand from the State and society a just world,...
On March 3, Juliette de Rivero, the representative in Colombia of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, OHCHR, presented the organization’s new Annual Report on Colombia, which summarizes the dramatic human rights situation in the country during the year 2021....
Image taken from laregional.net STATEMENT TO THE PUBLIC Leaders of the communities resettled by Cerrejón Limited of the municipality of Barrancas in the south of the Department of La Guajira grouped in the following organizations: Junta de Acción Comunal de Patilla, Junta de Acción Comunal...
Five years and four months after the signing of the Final Peace Agreement, we continue to verify the unwillingness of the Colombian State to recognize its responsibility in the installation of the continued genocide that has sought the annihilation of anyone who has dared to think and act...
Expressed in the Annual Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on Colombia, 2021 On March 3, 2022, Juliette de Rivero, representative of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) in Colombia, presented the annual report on the human...
Humanitarian Caravan to Arauca and Human Rights Forum FOR LIFE, PEACE AND PERMANENCE IN THE TERRITORY The Araucanian people live hours of terror. The war is the burden that continues to weigh with blood and pain on the memory of its people. Since the beginning of January 2022, we have witnessed an...
This Tuesday, March 1, 2022, at the José Alvear Restrepo Lawyers Collective, Cajar, a press conference was held to announce the acts of commemoration of the collective forced disappearance case of Colectivo 82, with the presence of the victims Nancy García Villamizar, sister of Orlando García...
We welcome the decision of the Special Jurisdiction for Peace to deny transitional release to José Miguel Narváez. On February 28th, the Legal Situations Definition Chamber, SDSJ, of the Special Jurisdiction for Peace, JEP, resolved the request of the former deputy director of the extinct DAS and...
Everything indicates that there is an effort to prevent Gustavo Petro from reaching the presidency of the Republic, giving continuity to what was done during his aspiration to become Mayor of Bogota and during his administration. Now they want us to believe that his campaign is financed with money...