The UN theme of World Water Day 2021 is valuing water. Without a comprehensive understanding of water’s true, multidimensional value, we will be unable to safeguard this critical resource for the benefit of everyone.” (UN Water) But what is the “value” of water? What does it represent? On the surface, Colombia has vast water resources;...
On 19 January 2021, ABColombia together with Centro de Investigación y Educación Popular (CINEP), the Colectivo de Abogados ‘José Alvear Restrepo’ (CAJAR), and the Interamerican Association for Environmental Defence (AIDA) and ASK! Switzerland supported Global Legal Action Network (GLAN) and Christian Aid Ireland in filing complaint to Multiple National Contact Points (NCPs) of the Organisation...
After a year marked by a global pandemic and the 4th anniversary of the signature of the Peace Agreement (24 November 2020), ABColombia reflects on the advances and the challenges of building a sustainable and meaningful peace in Colombia. The pandemic has exacerbated some of Colombia’s obstacles to peace. Human Rights Defenders continue to be...
¡Os damos la bienvenida al Boletín de invierno de ABColombia! This is our first newsletter in Spanish. If you would like to recieve the spanish verision in future then please let us know at: abcolombia@abcolombia.org.uk Después de un año marcado por una pandemia mundial y por el cuarto aniversario de la firma del Acuerdo de...
UN expert David R. Boyd UN Special Rapporteur on human rights and the environment calls for halt to mining at Carbones de Cerrejon open pit coal mine site in Colombia His call was endorsed by Mr. Michael Fakhri, Special Rapporteur on the right to food; Ms. Tlaleng Mofokeng, Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment...
ABColombia and CINEP’s reply (7 August 2020) to letter from Cerrejon’s letter (5 June 2020). This letter outlines our grave concerns relating to Cerrejón’s lack of full compliance with, and acknowledgement of, the evidence contained in the various judgements of the Colombian Constitutional Court. Text of the letter sent to Cerrejon from ABColombia: Further to...
Tickets for this Webinar free here Indigenous Peoples in Colombia struggle to protect their human, cultural and environmental rights. They frequently take these rights abuses to the Colombian Courts. Despite winning the cases companies manage to circumvent the implementation of the Court Orders Community leaders take immense risks in pursuing legal cases in an effort...
ABColombia and the Colombian Caravana UK Lawyers Group in August 2020 filed an Amicus Brief before the Court of Execution of Penalties and Security Measures number 20 of Bogotá in charge of following up on the orders of the Constitutional Court ruling SU 698 of 2017, which we hope will provide important elements on standards...
The Comptroller’s Office points out breaches Colombia’s Constitutional Court ruling SU-698 of 2017, which orders the protection of the right to water, food sovereignty and health, of the Wayúu indigenous communities, rights that have been violated with the diversion of an important water source -the Arroyo Bruno – in the department of La Guajira Colombia’s...
“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...
