Colombia

Colombian Human Rights Defender, Leider Valencia, is Under Threat

The Witness for Peace Solidarity Collective was just informed about a serious threat against the life of Colombian Social Leader, Human R...

Drummond President on Trial for Alleged Paramilitary Ties

Current Drummond President, José Miguel Linares, and the former president, Augusto Jiménez, are being charged by the Colombian Attorney

The Hidden Pandemic: How U.S. Arms Sales Have Fueled Decades of Violence in Latin America

In 2017, following the fraudulent re-election of President Juan Orlando Hernandez, Hondurans took to the street to demand justice and the...

The Ghost of the Black Eagles: The Invisible Face of Politicide in Colombia

In the past few months, a number of threatening pamphlets, signed by the paramilitary group “Aguilas Negras”

U.S.-backed Anti-Narcotics Police Attack Indigenous Community

On Monday November 30th, helicopters buzzed atop the Nasa Indigenous community of El Descanso, in the Southern department of Putumayo.

5 Dead and 80 More Injured as Police Open Fire into Crowds of Protesters in Colombia

On Wednesday September 10th, after unarmed lawyer Javier Ordoñez was murdered by police, protesters took to the streets in cities across ...

U.S Sends Troops to Fight Unarmed Poor People in Colombia

The United States Army is deploying a “company-sized” Special Forces team to support and advise Colombian anti-narcotics operations begin...

Death Threats and Attacks Against Community Leader and Human Rights Defender, Juan Martinez

Read Original Spanish Version Here On the morning of May 11th, social leader, human rights defender and member of the board of directors ...

Colombian Indigenous Communities Call for Cerrejón to Stop Redirecting Scarce Water Resources

On 5 May 2020, Anglo American, a London listed multinational mining company (MNC) will hold their Annual Shareholders Meeting behind clos...

Forced Eradications Continue Despite COVID-19 Crisis

Originally published by Contagio Radio Despite the isolation measures implemented across Colombia by President Ivan Duque to deal with th...

Internally Displaced Indigenous Peoples Denounce Re-victimization and Exclusion During Quarantine

By Mesa de Pueblos Indigenas Victimas del Conflicto Armado en Bogota In the face of institutional abandonment, the indigenous peoples vic...

Collective Work for Mother Earth

By Quin Galvin Before leaving home to embark on a Solidarity Collective trip to Colombia, “Confronting Climate Change and Building Peace:...

At Least Two Killed and One Injured in Northern Cauca as Attacks on Campesinos Continue in Impunity

Witness for Peace Solidarity Collective Condemns the recent attacks against Campesino organizers and human rights defenders in Miranda, C...

A Look Back at 2019

2019 proved to be one of the deadliest years on record for human rights defenders in Colombia. At least 250 social leaders lost their liv...

The Fight for Justice Continues: Daira Quiñones Returns to La Nupa

Daira recalls her beloved village of La Nupa as a tight-knit Afro-Colombian community where people once moved freely and sang and danced ...

Paramilitaries Take Over Nueva Vida Humanitarian Zone

During the early morning hours on December 18th, residents of Cacarica witnessed the strengthening of the Gaitanista Self-defense Forces ...

“Less-lethal Weapons”: How U.S. Companies Make Millions From Colombia’s State Repression

By Samantha Wherry The death of 18-year-old high school student, Dilan Cruz, at the hands of Colombia’s riot police on November 25th show...

U.S Continues to Fund Forced Eradication as Small-scale Farmers Face New Wave of Assassinations

To date, 53 members of COCCAM have been murdered with each member of the national body threatened individually and collectively.

Urgent Action: Return of Aerial Fumigation with Glyphosate

“Aerial fumigation with glyphosate is an attack on Mother Nature and an attack on our food sovereignty” – AINI Women’s Association Witnes...

Como EEUU creó su propia crisis de migrantes

por Carlissa Arrow El Rio Naya Durante décadas, Estados Unidos ha estado experimentando una crisis humanitaria en la frontera entre Estad...

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