On 26 January 2021, the Reconnaissance Chamber of the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) charged eight members of the former Secretariat of the extinct FARC-EP with crimes against humanity and war crimes in case 01: Rodrigo Londoño Echeverry, Pablo Catatumbo Victoria, Pastor Lisandro Alape Lascarro, Milton de Jesús Toncel, Juan Ermilo Cabrera, Jaime Alberto Parra,...
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 12 July 2021, a Colombia human rights question was asked by Lord Browne of Ladyton in the House of Lords, sparking off a debate. You can listen to the debate here. Lord Brown asked Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made as to whether the reported killings of civilian protestors in Colombia has put the...
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...
Whilst the eyes of the world have been on Colombian cities and the repressive use of violence by the police against the social protesters there has been a growing humanitarian crisis in the rural areas. Massacres The Fundación Ideas para la Paz (Ideas for Peace Foundation-FIP) reports an increase in the number of victims of...
15 June 2021 This statement was put together for the visit of the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights (IACHR). The IACHR are visiting Colombia to examine the human rights violations that have occurred in the context of the Social Protests (the NATIONAL STRIKE) in Colombia. Social Protests started on 28 April 2021. This statement addresses...
7 June 2021 Social protests broke out in Colombia on 28 April 2021, they were initially triggered by tax reforms, structural inequality and poverty, as well as, other underlying grievances including the lack of implementation of the Peace Accord, the number of social leaders being killed and failure to address previous grievances from national strikes...
On 11 May 2021 Tony Lloyd MP and nine others tabled an Early Day Motion – a statement in the British Parliament expressing their concern about the human rights violations perpetrated against the social protests across Colombia. Please ask your MP to sign this EDM Number 4 Protesters in Colombia MPs have public contact details...
