22 January 2025 ABColombia expresses its profound concern regarding the escalation of violence in north-eastern Colombia. According to OCHA, between 16-20 January 2025, 18,300 people have been displaced, and over 1,200 confined in their territory in the Catatumbo region due fighting initiated by National Liberation Army (Ejército de Liberación Nacional – ELN) and a dissident...
REPORT LAUNCHED 26 November 2024 Today (26 November 2024), ABColombia launches its report from the conference entitled “Violence Against Women, Girls and LGBTQI+ Community: Its Causes and Consequences” that we held in Bogota alongside our Colombian partners in February 2023. Women’s and LGBTQI+ organisations and grassroots women leaders from diverse communities across Colombia discussed the...
ABColombia welcomes you to join us for the launch of this report on Tuesday 26 November 2024 in the IPU Room in the Houses of Parliament, Cromwell Green Entrance. This is a FREE Event but please reserve your ticket here. The report will go live at 17:00 on Tuesday 26 November on the ABColombia website....
Physical and sexual and gender-based violence against children is a pervasive issue in Colombia, yet it continues to be ignored at a national level. According to research conducted by Together for Girls, 27% of girls and 38% of boys experience physical violence prior to age 18, and 15% of girls and 8% of boys experience...
The Tribunal, a film created by Malcolm Rogge in partnership with the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment, follows the experiences of community members in the Intag Valley of Ecuador. Their lives were directly impacted by a dispute arising from a potential mining project, and international arbitration proceedings, initiated by a Canadian mining company under the...
24 October 2024 marks 79 years since the United Nations officially came into existence. Over the past 4 decades, the UN has played a pivotal role in advancing human rights globally and promoting multilateral cooperation on issues like peace, security, human rights and development. The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights was the...
This article is republished with the kind permission of JusticeInfo.net and Andrés Bermúdez Liévano (journalist). For four hours on the afternoon of September 18th, and one more the following morning, retired Colonel Hernán Mejía Gutiérrez sat silently not far from the man who, two decades ago, was his number two in the ‘La Popa’ No. 2...
ABColombia remains gravely concerned about the situation of human rights defenders (HRDs) in Colombia. According to INDEPAZ, 116 HRDs and community leaders were killed in the first eight months of 2024. Global Witness reported that Colombia had the highest number of land and environmental defenders killed worldwide in 2023– with a record 79 killed in...
27 August 2024 On 5 August 2024, Presidential Resolution 279/24 was publicised, whereby members representing the Autodefensas Gaitanistas de Colombia/Clan del Golfo (hereinafter both groups will be referred to using the abbreviation AGC)[i], are recognised as negotiators in the “Social-Legal Dialogue Space” and arrest warrants are lifted. However, the legal framework under which this criminal...
Despite the ongoing peace talks in Colombia with a variety of armed groups, and the increased efforts by the Gustavo Petro Government to implement the 2016 Peace Accord, armed violence, particularly in the border regions, is increasing. The civilian population continues to bear the brunt of the war and its humanitarian consequences. At present there...
