International Civil Society Organisations reject the repeated attacks and accusations against the Truth Commission Civil Society Organisations reject the repeated attacks and accusations against the Commission for the Clarification of Truth (Truth Commission-CEV) and invite you to surround and protect its work. 15 July 2020 For the international civil society organisations signatories to this Public...
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Rival Illegal Armed Groups Terrify Communities in the Rio Quito Chocó
On 15 May 2020 there was an armed skirmish between illegal armed groups in the Rio Quito Choco, as one armed groups attempted to, and succeeded in robbing, a floating mining platform (called Entable in Spanish), located in the Cari Pato stream, between the village of San Isidro and La Loma, in the Quito River...
Legal Articles on Transitional Justice in Colombia
These articles are part of a series being published by the Colombian Commission of Jurists Legal Observatory on the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) Gender Perspective and Transitional Justice Ethnic Perspective and Transitional Justice
Illegal spying scandal:Public Statement
On 1 May 2020, an important political news magazine Semana, in an article called “Las carpetas secretas” (The Secret Files), alleged that Colombian Army Military Intelligence had been gathering surveillance on journalists, human rights defenders, trade unionists, political opposition, judges, and lawyers including those working on extrajudicial killings. This type of information gathering seriously affect...
COVID-19 and Human Rights in Colombia
“It is not a time to neglect human rights; it is a time when, more than ever, human rights are needed to navigate this crisis in a way that will allow us, as soon as possible, to focus again on achieving equitable sustainable development and sustaining peace” UN Report Covid-19 and Human Rights: We are...
“Liberate the Bruno River” Indigenous Wayuu and Afro-Colombians demand that Anglo American returns the Bruno, diverted for the extraction of coal, to its natural course
Press release 28 April 2020 Indigenous Wayuu and Afro-Colombians demand that Anglo American returns the Bruno, diverted for the extraction of coal, to its natural course On 5 May 2020, Anglo American, a London listed multinational mining company (MNC) will hold their AGM behind closed doors. Anglo-American are one of three MNC that jointly own...
Ensuring civil society’s right to participation: Letter to the United Nations
On 30 April 2020, the Civil Society Organisations who are members of the Latin American and Caribbean Group at the UN (ONG-LAC) wrote a letter to Ambassador Elisabeth Tichy-Fissleberer, President of the United Nations Human Rights Council, and Ms Michelle Bachelet, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. The letter outlined the ONG-LAC’s opinions, from...
Letter to President Ivan Duque: COVID-19 and the Humanitarian and Human Rights Crisis
ABColombia wrote the following letter to President Ivan Duque on 31 March 2020. You will find a copy of the letter in PDF in English and spanish if you click on the buttons above. The Coronavirus (COVID-19) is having a major global impact. Whilst the impacts vary from country to country, all governments are having...
Humanitarian Crisis in Chocó Intensifies
On 23 March 2020 the social organisations and communities in Chocó brought out a public statement about the deterioration that in the humanitarian situation and the increase in the violations of human rights and terrorising acts in Chocó , so far in the month of March. see below the parliamentary questions asked about the humanitarian...
Declaration of Support to the OHCHR in Colombia
WE FULLY SUPPORT THE WORK OF THE OFFICE OF THE UNITED NATIONS HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS (OHCHR) IN COLOMBIA AND THEIR REPRESENTATIVE, ALBERTO BRUNORI. Bogota, 2 March 2020 Since the arrival in 1997, of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) in Colombia, social and human rights movements have...