Just one week in September 2017, Colombia had a visit from Pope Francis with a strong message for peace and to stop violence against women; the ELN and the Government declared a temporary bi-lateral ceasefire; and the neo-paramilitary group ‘Clan de Golfo’/Autodefensas Gaitanistas de Colombia (AGC) indicated they wanted to submit themselves to the Justice...
Summary: Joint letter calls government draft bill ‘unconstitutional’ and in violation of the Peace Accord, saying it threatens indigenous, afro-Colombian and rural communities’ rights Joint Letter On 18 April 2017, a joint letter, signed by civil society organisations including: Colombian Commission of Jurists [i], Centro de Investigación y Educación Popular- Programa por la Paz...
ABColombia welcomes the ratification by the Colombian Congress of the revised Final Peace Agreement between the Government of Colombia and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia–People’s Army (FARC). But remains seriously concerned about the escalating levels of violence against human rights defenders with over 70 killed so far in 2016. Following the initial...
In November 2022, Total Peace Law 2272 was passed it define peace as a State Policy which implies that, to what was agreed in the peace agreements, it will have to be given continuity, regardless of the government that is in office. Total Peace in this law is defined from the perspective of human security,...
Gustavo Gallón, human rights defender and Colombian ambassador in Geneva, dies. Colombian human rights lawyer, academic and diplomat Gustavo Gallón, who served as Colombia’s ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva since 2022, has died in Switzerland after a period of serious illness. Widely regarded as one of Colombia’s foremost human rights defenders, Gallón founded...
