It is with grave concern that ABColombia has received reports from our partners on clashes between armed groups in the Southern Bolívar Department, and Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta (the Heart of the World for the Wiwa, Kankuamo, Arhuaco and Kogui Indigenous Peoples). In both cases the civilian population are caught in the middle with...
International Investment Agreements (IIA) regime and investor-to-state dispute settlement mechanism (ISDS): Implications for Colombia International Investment Agreements are the agreements that set out the provisions for the protection of the investments for multinational corporations (MNC) and possible dispute mechanisms. The investor protection provisions between Colombia and the UK are contained in the UK-Colombia Bilateral Investment...
Case study on Colombia – La Colosa – multinational AngloGold Ashanti mine Location: House of Commons, Westminster Date: 13 September. Time: 18:00 – 19:00 Reservation Essential (limited spaces). Register HERE Peasant farmer communities, local citizens and local government in Cajamarca, Colombia, are confronting the multinational AngloGold Ashanti (AGA), and its proposed gold mine La Colosa....
International Civil Society Organisations signatories of this statement issue an urgent alert regarding an imminent tragedy, that hovers over the civilian population in the Department of Chocó. This requires an immediate response from the corresponding authorities in accordance with Colombia’s obligations under International Human Rights Law, International Humanitarian Law (IHL), ethnic legislation and the cosmovision...
Bogotá, julio 19 de 2023. Las organizaciones internacionales de la sociedad civil, integrantes del Espacio de Cooperación para la Paz[1] alertan sobre la difícil situación de derechos humanos e infracciones al Derecho Iinternacional Humanitario que padece el pueblo indígena Awá debido a la presencia y actuación de grupos armados ilegales en sus territorios ancestrales ubicados...
12 July 2023 Read full speech here In a meeting with the UN Security Council, Carlos Ruiz Massieu, Special Representative of the Secretary General and Head of the UN Verification Mission in Colombia presented the latest report of the Secretary General to the Council. The report indicates that Colombia has made good progress towards the...
READ UN’s Resolution to support implementation of the Truth Commission’s recommendations On 28 of June 2023 marked the first year of the publication of the final report of the Colombian Truth Commission. The report was the product of thousands of hours of investigation over a 5-year period that condensed over 14,000 individual and collective interviews...
Colombia serves as an important example that resolving enduring differences is only possible through peaceful dialogue. Simon Manley CMG On 13 July 2023 the UN Human Rights Council passed a resolution (A/HRC/53/L.25/Rev.1) on Enhancement of technical cooperation and capacity-building in the field of human rights in Colombia to implement the recommendations of the Commission for the...
Zac Goldsmith, Minister of State for Overseas Territories of the UK SPANISH The ELN, or National Liberation Army, is Colombia’s last remaining leftist insurgency. Talks with the rebels are crucial to President Gustavo Petro’s ambition of achieving “Total Peace” with all armed criminal/paramilitary groups in the country. The main department responsible for implementing “Total Peace...
INTERNATIONAL DAY OF THE ELIMINATION OF SEXUAL VIOLENCE IN CONFLICT Gender-based violence remains one of the most systemic and widespread human rights violations of our time.[i] In Colombia, the situation of impunity in gender-based violence has not only continued, but increased, despite the signing of the Peace Accord in 2016. According to a survey by...
