OPEN LETTER TO WORLD LEADERS Download Letter here October 2021 Respecting and protecting human rights and protecting the environment are inextricably linked. Yet while Heads ofState from 88 countries have called to end siloed thinking in the Leaders Pledge for Nature, environmental policy-making still too often excludes or sidelines human rights. Today we, the undersigned...
1 October 2021 The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) expressed its serious concern regarding the significant increase in the situations of forced internal displacement in Colombia. Events of massive forced displacement in Colombia increased significantly currently Colombia continues to report the highest number of internally displaced people in the world, a total of 8.3...
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...
Communications and Information Officer Please Note that we have extended the deadline to 5pm on Wednesday 6 October 2021 The ABColombia is a project of a coalition of five leading development agencies, CAFOD, Christian Aid UKI, Oxfam GB, SCIAF and Trócaire which engages decision-makers in the UK and Irish governments, the European Union and United...
16 Jul 2021 The following press statement was issued by the UN Security Council after receiving a briefing by Carlos Ruiz Massieu, SRSG and Head of the UN Verification Mission in Colombia to the UN Security Council Meeting on 13 July 2021. Press Statement New York, 16 July 2021. The Members of the Security Council...
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...
