10 June 2025 ABColombia condemns the shooting on, 7 June 2025 of one of Colombia’s Presidential candidates for the upcoming elections in May 2026. Senator Miguel Uribe Turbay Colombia’s Centro Democratico (Democratic Centre) party was shot twice in the head whilst speaking at a political rally in Bogota. He was rushed to hospital, operated on,...
On 3 June 2025 at the 79th session of the UN General Assembly there was the possibility of electing five new non-permanent member seats. The seats available for this election are allocated to different regions of the world in the following manner: two seats for the African Group, one seat for the Asia-Pacific Group, one...
Yes to life, No to the Mine! #DefenseOfTerritory #JericoResists #WaterYesMineNo! Eleven peasant farmer in Jericó, Colombia face prosecution in a socio-environmental conflict. Eleven peasant farmers from the municipality of Jericó (one of which is an 85 year old man), opposed to the exploration activities of UK headquartered AngloGold Ashanti’s Quebradona Mining Project, are being prosecuted...
8 March 2025 On International Women’s Day 2025, ABColombia recognises the persistent and structural violence that women communities face in Colombia. Despite progressive legal frameworks, gender-based violence remains deeply entrenched in society, exacerbated by the legacies of colonialism, patriarchy, racism, and classism. For Indigenous and Black women, as well as LGBTQI+ persons, these intersecting oppressions...
22 January 2025 ABColombia expresses its profound concern regarding the escalation of violence in north-eastern Colombia. According to OCHA, between 16-20 January 2025, 18,300 people have been displaced, and over 1,200 confined in their territory in the Catatumbo region due fighting initiated by National Liberation Army (Ejército de Liberación Nacional – ELN) and a dissident...
REPORT LAUNCHED 26 November 2024 Today (26 November 2024), ABColombia launches its report from the conference entitled “Violence Against Women, Girls and LGBTQI+ Community: Its Causes and Consequences” that we held in Bogota alongside our Colombian partners in February 2023. Women’s and LGBTQI+ organisations and grassroots women leaders from diverse communities across Colombia discussed the...
ABColombia welcomes you to join us for the launch of this report on Tuesday 26 November 2024 in the IPU Room in the Houses of Parliament, Cromwell Green Entrance. This is a FREE Event but please reserve your ticket here. The report will go live at 17:00 on Tuesday 26 November on the ABColombia website....
Physical and sexual and gender-based violence against children is a pervasive issue in Colombia, yet it continues to be ignored at a national level. According to research conducted by Together for Girls, 27% of girls and 38% of boys experience physical violence prior to age 18, and 15% of girls and 8% of boys experience...
The Tribunal, a film created by Malcolm Rogge in partnership with the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment, follows the experiences of community members in the Intag Valley of Ecuador. Their lives were directly impacted by a dispute arising from a potential mining project, and international arbitration proceedings, initiated by a Canadian mining company under the...
24 October 2024 marks 79 years since the United Nations officially came into existence. Over the past 4 decades, the UN has played a pivotal role in advancing human rights globally and promoting multilateral cooperation on issues like peace, security, human rights and development. The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights was the...
