"As women we're able to resist with our bodies" Women's resistance to violence in Colombia
By Jessica Garcia Translation: Pambana Gutto Bassett For more than a year, countless forced displacements have been carried out across the...
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- Jun 23, 2022
- 6 min
Colombia Presidential Elections 2022 - Runoff for the Government of Life
By Bárbara Orozco Díaz On June 19, 2022, for the first time in its contemporary history, Colombia makes a government shift to the...
- Mar 9, 2022
- 5 min
State Repression and Militarization in Post-Peace Accords Colombia
By Bárbara Orozco Díaz On January 25, the President of the Republic of Colombia, Iván Duque, signed into law the widely-rejected Citizen...
- Mar 8, 2022
- 10 min
Leading Territorial Resistance: The Voices of Three Colombian Women Leaders
By Jessica Garcia On this March 8th, the Witness for Peace Solidarity Collective honours the women who resist in their territories across...
- Jan 31, 2022
- 2 min
Trial of Guapinol Water Protectors Continues in Honduras
By John Walsh Since January 13th, the trial of 8 community activists and water protectors from Guapinol, Honduras has been under way in...
- Feb 2, 2021
- 2 min
Urgent Action: Social Leader, Maria Eugenia Mosquera, Under Threat
The Witness for Peace Solidarity Collective expresses solidarity with Colombian Social Leader, Human Rights defender, and partner María...
- Jan 6, 2021
- 2 min
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...
- Dec 2, 2020
- 4 min
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”
- Aug 13, 2020
- 3 min
The U.S. is financing illegal hydroelectric projects in Honduras with taxpayer dollars
On July 21st, the newly created U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) announced that it signed an agreement with the...
- May 18, 2020
- 1 min
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...
- Mar 20, 2020
- 7 min
COVID-19 Crisis in Honduras: What it Means for our WfP-SC Team and Partners on the Ground
By Corie Welch On Sunday night, I made the extremely difficult decision to leave Honduras and return to the United States to continue my...
- Feb 17, 2020
- 3 min
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,...
- Dec 13, 2019
- 4 min
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.
- Dec 10, 2019
- 3 min
Impunity for Intellectual Authors Means No Justice for Berta Cáceres
Still no justice for Berta as seven material authors receive sentencing for her murder
- Aug 6, 2019
- 6 min
No Peace in Sight: Indigenous Colombians Face Growing Levels of Forced Displacement
By Samantha Wherry and Evan King When traveling on a boat to Pichima Quebrada, a small Wounaan indigenous community located along the...
- Sep 26, 2018
- 4 min
Statement in Solidarity with MADJ in light of recent defamation campaigns/Declaración en solidaridad
(español abajo) Witness for Peace reiterates wholeheartedly our solidarity with the Broad Movement for Dignity and Justice (MADJ in...
- May 15, 2018
- 14 min
La Lucha Es Constante: Updates from Pajuiles
Members of the COBRAS, armed with riot gear and tear gas, stand guard outside the encampment at Pajuiles, May 3, 2018. The banner above...
- Apr 13, 2018
- 5 min
Jailed Before He Was Born
Albertina López Melgar, a member of the Broad Movement for Dignity and Justice (MADJ, for its initials in Spanish) has emerged in the...
- Jun 23, 2017
- 13 min
The Berta Cáceres Case in Context: The Campaign Against Human Rights Defenders, Journalists, Indigen
The assassination of Berta Cáceres has, for good reason, become an emblematic case in the conversation around human rights abuses in...
- May 28, 2017
- 5 min
WFP Urgent Action in Buenaventura, Colombia / Acción Urgente en Buenaventura, Colombia
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