Las comunidades Wounaan de Buenaventura exigen garantías para vivir con dignidad y paz

Wounaan community Santa Rosa de Guayacan faces humanitarian crisis after return to their land in Bajo Calima due to institutional inaction

The militarization of Colombian territory continues as the U.S. military presence in the region increases.

De la mano del avance de la presencia militar estadounidense en la región, continúa la militarización del territorio colombiano

Hace 10 días murió Olga Castillo. Quisiera decir que murió en paz y habiendo obtenido justicia, pero no fue así. Olga no debió morir.

Reconciliation led by the families of the forcibly disappeared in Palestina, Huila

Casi un año estuvo Olga acampando frente a la Embajada, primero, y frente a la Cancillería después. Casi un año de protesta de una mujer fre

By Jessica Garcia Translation: Pambana Gutto Bassett For more than a year, countless forced displacements have been carried out across the rural areas of the Colombian Pacific as a result of the security situation in the region. The living conditions for peasant communities that exist and resist there have been worsening at an alarming rate. The consequences, however, are not the same for everyone. In the last six years, of the 57,876 victims of forced displacement register

A mother's relentless search for justice in the face of violations committed by U.S. military personnel under Plan Colombia.

If weapons have only generated death and pain, why does militarization of territories continue?

By Bárbara Orozco Díaz On Sunday, May 29, 2022, the first round of the Presidential Elections was held in Colombia. The left-leaning candidate, Gustavo Petro of the Pacto Histórico, received the most votes ( 40.32 per cent - 8,527,768 ) but it was not enough for the progressive coalition to claim a decisive victory in this first round and become the first left-leaning government in the contemporary history of Colombia. Petro will face the second most voted candidate, Rodolf

The U.S. celebrated the extradition as a victory in their effort to dismantle drug trafficking. In reality, the only thing it is dismantling is victims’ right to the truth. By Evan King Fransisco Miguel Soto Lopez, a 54 year-old plantain seller from the department of Cordoba in northwestern Colombia, was on his way to the town’s central market when suddenly two armed men arrived on a motorcycle. The men were members of the Gaitanista Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AGC), a

By Julián Arturo On March 19, 2022, Witness for Peace Solidarity Collective in collaboration with SOA Watch, CISPES, and other...

By Bárbara Orozco Díaz On January 25, the President of the Republic of Colombia, Iván Duque, signed into law the widely-rejected Citizen Security Law 2197 of 2022. Human rights organizations and members of the opposition have filed a lawsuit before the Constitutional Court against 13 of its Articles, claiming that it criminalizes social protest. On February 8, during the High Level Dialogues between Colombia and the United States, the U.S. Under Secretary for Political Affai

By Jessica Garcia On this March 8th, the Witness for Peace Solidarity Collective honours the women who resist in their territories across...

By Evan King and Pambana Gutto Bassett Since April 28th hundreds of thousands of Colombians have taken to the streets to demand the end...

Original in Spanish by Contagio Radio According to the Justice and Peace Commission, there have been numerous testimonies pointing to the...

Original article published in spanish by Redacción CRITERIO.HN Please also see Part 2 and Part 3 of this Criterio series on Jilamito....

The Witness for Peace Solidarity Collective expresses solidarity with Colombian Social Leader, Human Rights defender, and partner María...

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