1 October 2021 The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) expressed its serious concern regarding the significant increase in the...
Tag: Human Rights
UN Report says Colombia Failing to Protect Human Rights Defenders
Mary Lawlor UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders (HRDs) December 2020 report states that of the 1,323 killings of...
Chancleta and the Cerrejón Mine
Chancleta is an Afro-descendant community in La Guajira, Colombia that was forced to relocate when the Cerrejón mine, owned by...
UK Parliament: Human Rights in Colombia must be improved before deepening trade relations
Lords insist that the UK as pen holder to the UN Security Council on the Verification Mission in Colombia hold...
Cerrejón Accused before the OECD of Human Rights Abuses and Environmental Damage
On 19 January 2021, ABColombia together with Centro de Investigación y Educación Popular (CINEP), the Colectivo de Abogados ‘José Alvear...
Human Rights Day: remembering those seeking to defend and protect the right to sustainable peace
On Human Rights Day 2020, ABColombia pays tribute to the immense courage, expertise and determination of Colombian Human Rights Defenders...
International Civil Society Organisations Reject Stigmatising Claims against the Humanitarian Caravan to Cañyón del Micay in Argelia, Cauca department
5 November 2020 The international civil society organisations signed onto this statement denounce and warn of the life-threatening risks against...
Independence of the Colombian Judiciary at Risk
International and Colombian Civil Society Organisations issued a joint statement expressing their profound concerns regarding the threat to judicial independence...
Indigenous, Afro-Colombian and Peasant Farmers call on President of Colombia to Dialogue
This is an unofficial translation of the Public Statement you can find if you click on the PDF button above....