Jineth Bedoya Lima
We are one with the water, with the earth, with the air, with the sun, with the thoughts, with the...
Emblematic Cases
ABColombia Emblematic Cases: Overview
Buenaventura
Buenaventura is Colombia’s most important port city. Despite its significance for international trade and tax revenue, Buenaventura is one of Colombia’s least developed cities and communities are affected by the lack of basic services and the presence of illegal armed groups.
COCOMOPOCA
COCOMOPOCA (Consejo Comunitario Mayor de Alto Atrato) is made up of 43 Afro-Colombian communities who under Law 70 (1993) made an application for collective ownership of their land title. They struggled for 12 years to have their land-rights recognised. A struggle that saw them forcibly displaced from their territory and their leaders threatened and killed.
The Wounaan Indigenous People
The Wounaan People are one of the Indigenous peoples in Colombia that are at risk of extinction due to displacement and violence. They live on the River San Juan near a dense rainforest in a particularly bio-diverse region in the South of Chocó. The Wounaan have been forcibly displaced on several occasions.
Jineth Bedoya Lima
Jineth Bedoya Lima is a Colombian journalist and Human Rights Defender. The violent sexual attack against her is one example of the way in which sexual violence is employed as a means to intimidate and punish women defenders for their work.
The Zenú Indigenous Peoples
The Zenú Indigenous Peoples from the Alto San Jorge Resguardo in Cordorba belong to the Indigenous Groups at risk of physical or cultural extinction. They have been raising the issue of the alleged impacts of the nearby BHP Billiton Cerro Matoso Ferro Nickel mine and processing plant on the health of the Zenú People and the contamination of the environment.
The Linea Negra, Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta
The Linea Negra for Indigenous Peoples is the “Heart of the Earth.” It is a ring of 54 sacred sites around the base of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta that form the boundary of the ancestral territory of the region’s four Indigenous Peoples: Kogui, Arhuaco, Wiwa, and Kankumano. They are direct descendants of the Tayrona culture who built the pre-Columbian cities.
News on Emblematic Cases
Matarratón in El Porvenir: a short history
In August 2018 British Parliamentarians visited Matarratón in an effort to understand the complex situation of land. They found that...
2018 Delegation
Vichada: meeting with the: Sikuani, Sikuani-Cubeo, Puinave, Piapoco, Piaroa, Sáliba, Amorua, Curripacos, Tuparro Indigenous Peoples.
Security of Zenu Indigenous Leader: ABColombia sends letter to National Protection Unit
On 23 January 2019, ABColombia sent a letter to the Director of the National Protection Unit, Pablo Elías González Monguí,...
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,...
Zenú Indigenous Peoples from the Alto San Jorge Resguardo Cordorba
The Zenú Resguardo of Alto San Jorge in Cordorba consists of 47 communities numbering 19,022 people distributed in three areas:...
ABColombia Statement – Zenu Indigenous Peoples
Three Zenú Indigenous People assassinated in three months: ABColombia calls on the Colombian Government to implement security measures promised more...
Alexander Lopez – humanitarian crisis in Buenaventura
In June 2015, Colombian congressman Alexander Lopez visited the Catalan and UK Parliaments to draw attention to the humanitarian crisis...