Judicial attacks against Human Rights Defenders continue in Colombia despite the signing of a Peace Accord with the FARC...
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Government draft bill could conflict with Peace Accord
Summary: Joint letter calls government draft bill ‘unconstitutional’ and in violation of the Peace Accord, saying it threatens indigenous,...
Colombian Constitutional Court sets a Global Precedent
ABColombia partner Tierra Digna wins landmark Constitutional Court case introducing an “ecocentric” vision of Human Rights In a landmark ruling,...
Chocó: Indigenous people forced to flee
The Inter-ethnic Forum, the Indigenous Board and the Dioceses’ of Quibdó, Istmina and Apartadó and many NGOs in Colombia,...
Joint statement rejecting the murder of Gerson Acosta
ABColombia, in a joint statement with 17 other International Civil Society Organisations, has expressed its profound rejection of, and concern...
National Security Guarantees Commission
On 24 February 2017 the National Security Guarantees Commission was inaugurated. This is an important first step in the...
Church denounces State Abandonment in Cordoba and Urabá
The Bishop of Apartadó and the Catholic Church denounced the increase in killings of social leaders and political activists in...