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Events

LGBTQI+ Rights Under Pressure in Colombia: Political Change and the Role of Transitional Justice Join the King’s Gender Studies Network and ABColombia in conversation with Marcela Sánchez from Colombia Diversa Discussing Gender, Peace and Transitional Justice in Colombia’s current political context Organised by ABColombia, the King’s College London Gender Studies Network, and Colombia Diversa, join...

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Senate Legislation Threatens Colombia’s Transitional Justice System  

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7 October 2026 “Colombia’s landmark restorative measures with respect to that conflict, now underway, are a global achievement for transitional justice,” said Volker Turk, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights  Since campaigning for the presidency, Abelardo de la Espriella has advocated a hard-line approach to security and has been a vocal critic of aspects of...

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ISDS Claims: Public Interest and Climate Policy Under Pressure

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ABColombia will be at the Labour Party Conference in September 2026 and we will be at stall K4 on good business matters discussing the UK’s need for a business, human rights and environment due diligence law and the danger that ISDS poses to the economic transformation the Burnham Government wants to implement. Summary The UK...

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Protection for the Heart and Lungs of the World

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Peace with Nature in the Heart of the World – Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta On 28 August 2024, then-President Gustavo Petro instructed the National Land Agency to acquire the remaining sacred and strategic lands between Indigenous territory and the Black Line under the Agrarian Reform policy, an initiative he called “Peace with Nature in...

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Indigenous Leaders Killed

By In Human Rights Defenders, News, News Archive, Vulnerable CommunitiesTags , , ,

On 1 September 2026, Indigenous human rights defender María Ovidia Palechor and her partner James Flor were shot and killed in their home in Cajibío, Cauca department. María Ovidia Palechor was a highly respected indigenous defender of women’s rights, human and territorial rights and a well-known peace activist. She coordinated the women’s and human rights...

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17/07/2026 News Review

By In Weekly News Review

SOCIAL LEADERS, HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS AND SIGNATORIES OF AGREEMENTS MURDERED IN 2024, 2025 AND 2026. According to Indepaz’s monitoring of political violence and human rights abuses, Colombia continues to face persistent violence against social leaders, human rights defenders and former FARC combatants who signed the 2016 Peace Agreement. Indepaz reports that 187 social leaders and...

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Macro-Case 07: On Forced Recruitment of Children – identifies a pattern of sexual and reproductive violence committed against girls, boys and adolescents in the armed conflict 

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Macro-Case 07 is one of the landmark investigations undertaken by Colombia’s Jurisdicción Especial para la Paz (Special Jurisdiction for Peace – JEP), the transitional justice system established under the 2016 Peace Accord. The case investigates the forced recruitment and use of children during the armed conflict between 1971 and 2016. It is divided into two sub-cases: (1) crimes committed by the former FARC-EP;...

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10/07/2026 News Review

By In Weekly News Review

‘We won’t give up, we’ll keep fighting’: activists in Colombia vow to resist far-right push for fossil fuels. Colombia has become a key battleground in the global struggle between environmental defenders and a resurgent far right aligned with fossil-fuel interests. It focuses on activists, Indigenous communities, Afro-Colombian groups and local organisations resisting oil, coal and...