Mary Lawlor UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders (HRDs) December 2020 report states that of the 1,323 killings of defenders 933 of those were killed in Latin America and the Caribbean. This is the region of the world which has consistently been the highest in terms of killing of HRDs and Colombia has consistently...
In 2021, the UK will host COP26, this important event cannot happen at a more crucial moment for climate change, biodiversity conservation and the environment. In 2018 ABColombia led a Delegation of Parliamentarians who met with environmental activists in Ibague and Cajamarca – the Young Social and Environmental Group of Cajamarca (Colectivo Socio-Ambiental Juvenil de...
¡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...
5 November 2020 The international civil society organisations signed onto this statement denounce and warn of the life-threatening risks against the social leaders and human rights defenders that organised the Humanitarian Caravan to Cañyón del Micay. The work of these social movements and the lives of these individuals are at risk due to the stigmatising...
On 8 October 2020, ABColombia together with the other international organisations attending the Oidhaco General Assembly, signed a public declaration calling on the Colombian Government to provide safety and security guarantees for the public demonstration set to take place on 10 October 2020. When the Indigenous Peoples from the South West of Colombia will march...
21 September 2020. The Cooperation Space for Peace (ECP), the International Office for Human Rights – Action Colombia (Oidhaco), and the civil society international organisations that have signed this statement, would like to express serious concerns about the killing of Colombian citizen Javier Ordóñez during his arrest, on the early morning of 9 September 2020[i]....
According to official figures ten protesters have been killed and over 200 civilians injured, allegedly, due to an excessive use of force by the Colombian Police, as well as, 194 police injured. Widespread social protests took place 9, 10 and 11 September 2020 following the murder of Javier Ordoñez in police custody. The massive protests...
Letter to Colombian Government from International NGOs and Legal Organisations on alleged illegal surveillance by the Colombian Military ABColombia joined with the Colombian Caravana of UK Lawyers and other concerned International organisations and lawyers to write to the Colombian Government about our deep concerned about the recent allegations of the Colombian National Army’s unlawful surveillance...
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...
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...
