Today, 10 July 2017, the United Nations Security Council approved a second United Nations (UN) Mission in Colombia via Resolution...
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Human Rights Essential Component for UN Security Council Political Mission
ABColombia welcomes the end of the process of the Laying Down of Arms by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia...
Supreme Court frees Indigenous Leader Feliciano Valencia
ABColombia welcomes the decision by Colombia’s Supreme Court to acquit prominent Colombian indigenous leader Feliciano Valencia after he was arrested...
FARC Finalise Laying Down of Arms
On 26 June 2017 the Colombian Government and the FARC-EP guerrilla completed the third phase in the process of...
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...
Revised Peace Accord ratified by the Colombian Congress
ABColombia welcomes the ratification by the Colombian Congress of the revised Final Peace Agreement between the Government of...