Watch this event again in English here Virtual Event on 2 March 2022 Organisers: ABColombia, Federation of European Bars, Colombian Caravana of UK Lawyers, CAFOD, CINEP, CALDH, PBI UK Chair: Former British Ambassador to Colombia, John Dew Speakers: Her Excellency Joanna Korner CMG QC, International Criminal Court Judge The Importance of Trial Management in the Delivery...
On 18 January 2022, Luz Marina Arteaga, a doctor, social leader and land-claimant was killed. This vibrant and active social leader’s lifeless body was recovered from the River Meta in Orocué, Casanare, Colombia. As far back as 28 November 2019, ABColombia wrote to Pablo Elías González Monguí, Director General of the National Protection Unit (Unidad...
Colombia is due to have elections in March 2022. This will be the first time that the 16 seats for the Special Transitory Peace Voting Districts created for victims by the Peace Accord will be in operation. They offer the possibility of linking areas that have experienced state abandonment for decades into the centre of...
December 2021 VerdadEs: politizar el dolor y las emociones de las mujeres (TruthIs: Politicising Women’s Pain and Emotions) a report presented to the Truth Commission by women from Cauca, Córdoba and Meta departments together with the feminist Colombian organisation Casa de la Mujer. The report is about women’s experiences of multiple forms of violence during...
The rapid spread of the pandemic has been a challenge for the Latin Americana and Caribbean (LAC) region, essential sanitary measures such as regular handwashing and social distancing measures are difficult to for the 230 million vulnerable people in LAC countries according to Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC). Many households do not...
Voices from the River Atrato Chocó Chocó department in Colombia is located in the Pacific basin of the “Chocó Biographical Region.” It extends from the Andes mountains to the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea. It is one of the most important tropical regions in the world, being a nucleus with a high concentration of...
21/7/21 National and International Organisations are calling on Colombia’s War Crimes Tribunal, the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) to open a National Case on sexual, reproductive, gender-based and LGBTI violence in that occurred in the armed conflict. The JEP has taken an innovative and important approach to gender and race by taking a cross cutting...
In National Case 03 there are six different areas of priority where ordinary citizens were killed and forcibly disappeared by state agents and subsequently presented as casualties in combat. They are the Caribbean Coast, Catatumbo, Antioquia, Huila, Casanare y Meta First Priority Area – the Caribbean Coast Colombia’s war crimes tribunal, the Special Jurisdiction for...
On 13 July 2021 Carlos Ruiz Massieu, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the UN Verification Mission in Colombia, briefed ambassadors on latest developments in respect to the implementation of the Peace Accord. This is a summary of the report that the Head of the UN Verification Mission in Colombia presented: The peace...
On 14 May 2021, Christian Aid and ABColombia hosted an event with the Transitional Justice Institute: Why Truth and Justice Matter in Colombia. An overarching theme throughout the event was the pivotal role that the international community can play in supporting Colombia’s pathway to truth and justice, by making victims visible and supporting the Special...
