2020 is proving to be one of the worst year’s on record for the killings of Human Rights Defenders (HRDs) with the UN reporting that it is following up on 91 reported killings of defenders in the first eight months of 2020 (to date 47 have been verified and 44 are in the process of...
At ABColombia we help interns develop a wide range of skills to prepare them for a future career in the field of human rights. Previous interns are now working with different (international) NGOs in the UK, Colombia and elsewhere. In this section you can find out more about our current and previous interns’ experience...
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...
Tickets for this Webinar free here Indigenous Peoples in Colombia struggle to protect their human, cultural and environmental rights. They frequently take these rights abuses to the Colombian Courts. Despite winning the cases companies manage to circumvent the implementation of the Court Orders Community leaders take immense risks in pursuing legal cases in an effort...
The Supreme Court of Colombia has placed former President Álvaro Uribe (2002-2010) under House Arrest.. Uribe Vélez is currently a Senator in the Colombian Congress who is waiting to be tried for procedural fraud and witness tampering. In 2012, Senator Uribe Vélez filed a complaint against Senator Iván Cepeda for falsely linking him to right...
Colombian Interior Minister Alicia Arango Olmos failed to attend the CSIVI meeting called to address the deteriorating security situation for former combatants. On 28 July 2020, called a meeting of the Commission for the Follow-up, Promotion and Verification of the Implementation of the Final Agreement (CSIVI) to address the lack of implementation of adequate security...
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...
International Civil Society Organisations reject the repeated attacks and accusations against the Truth Commission Civil Society Organisations reject the repeated attacks and accusations against the Commission for the Clarification of Truth (Truth Commission-CEV) and invite you to surround and protect its work. 15 July 2020 For the international civil society organisations signatories to this Public...
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...
These articles are part of a series being published by the Colombian Commission of Jurists Legal Observatory on the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) Gender Perspective and Transitional Justice Ethnic Perspective and Transitional Justice
