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

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

Last week, our Colombia International Team, along with New England regional organizer Lee Schlenker, accompanied Leider Valencia of COCCAM

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

On December 31st, 2019, as residents of Pogue, Bojaya, celebrated the new year, between 300 and 600 paramilitaries arrived to exert...

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

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

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...

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

After 5 months and 15 days of being forcibly displacement in Docordó, Municipal Head of the San Juan River, in the Chocó Department

By Samantha Wherry and Evan King When traveling on a boat to Pichima Quebrada, a small Wounaan indigenous community located along the...

By Liza González Perafán, INDEPAZ One by one, the leaves enter the mouth like bread, breaking up between bites and saliva. They settle in...

by (Ret.) Detective Russell Jones The American War on Drugs has contributed mightily to the violence and poverty individuals, families,...

By Alexzandria Sanchez Our partners from the Inter-Church Commission of Justice and Peace (Justicia y Paz) have seen an overwhelming...

A group of protestors have dedicated the last 8 years of their lives permanently occupying a public space in front of the U.S embassy

Witness for Peace Solidarity Collective expresses grave concern over the death threat one of our partners received in Colombia. Today,...

This article was originally published by El TIEMPO in Spanish and was translated by the Colombia Team. US Senator Patrick Leahy asked the...

Residents of the Carrizal village in the municipality Convention, Norte de Santander denounce the assassination of a demobilized FARC...

Despite the 2016 peace accords in Colombia, conflict and violence continue due to the U.S.-supported neoliberal economic model. In order...