8 March 2025 On International Women’s Day 2025, ABColombia recognises the persistent and structural violence that women communities face in Colombia. Despite progressive legal frameworks, gender-based violence remains deeply entrenched in society, exacerbated by the legacies of colonialism, patriarchy, racism, and classism. For Indigenous and Black women, as well as LGBTQI+ persons, these intersecting oppressions...
REPORT LAUNCHED 26 November 2024 Today (26 November 2024), ABColombia launches its report from the conference entitled “Violence Against Women, Girls and LGBTQI+ Community: Its Causes and Consequences” that we held in Bogota alongside our Colombian partners in February 2023. Women’s and LGBTQI+ organisations and grassroots women leaders from diverse communities across Colombia discussed the...
ABColombia welcomes you to join us for the launch of this report on Tuesday 26 November 2024 in the IPU Room in the Houses of Parliament, Cromwell Green Entrance. This is a FREE Event but please reserve your ticket here. The report will go live at 17:00 on Tuesday 26 November on the ABColombia website....
On 9 September 2024 the Government of Colombia presented the No es Hora de Callar Fund -Law 2358 of 2024 to finance programs aimed at preventing, protecting and assisting women journalists and communicators who are victims of violence. This was as part of the Government’s compliance with the Judgment issued by the Inter-American Court of...
This International Women’s Day, 8 February 2024, ABColombia would like to draw attention to Colombia’s progress in developing and implementing a National Action Plan as part of the Women, Peace Security (WPS) Agenda, and celebrate the incredible and tireless work of Colombian women civil society organisations (CSOs) in this process. In 2000, the United Nations...
READ the latest advances of the National Action Plan in 2023 After 22 years of the implementation of the UN Security Council’s resolution 1325, Colombia’s government announced the formulation, implementation, and follow-up of the National Action Plan 1325 (NAP1325), as a result of the historic and tireless work of women and feminist’s organisations in the...
On 18 May 2023, Colombia hosted an interinstitutional conference to discuss UN Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security and Colombia’s progress in developing a National Action Plan (NAP) for its implementation [i]. The meeting led by Colombian Vice Minister of Multilateral Matters, Elizabeth Taylor Jay, included the participation of Miki Jacevic who has pioneered...
For 22 years Jineth Bedoya’s demonstrated incredible courage and determination to make a difference for thousands of women in Colombia who had suffered sexual violence. The pursuit of her case through the Colombian and International Courts has not been an easy one, she has been subjected to threats, forced to re-tell and to re-live the...
Reservation essential (limited places). Register HERE Joining us ONLINE? Register HERE The Colombian state has failed to respect and protect fundamental rights such as free, prior, and informed consent (FPIC). Those who raise their voices in defence of human rights in response to abuses committed connected to the development of mega-projects are being repressed. In...
On 8 March 2022, International Women’s Day, ABColombia’s special mention goes to Sisma Mujer, one of our partner organisations in Colombia. Sisma Mujer is a Colombian feminist organisation that since 1998 has contributed to the consolidation of the women’s movement and worked with women victims of violence and discrimination in private, public and armed conflict...
