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"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...

"If there weren't so many guns, there wouldn't be so many dead"

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

"We are not asking to be given rights, we are demanding them"

We interviewed the social leader Andrés Maíz to learn more about his long fight for land rights and his work with Lxs Sin Techo.

10 years of the US-Colombia Free Trade Agreement in Buenaventura: forced displacement increases

In May, the US-Colombia free trade agreement marked its 10th anniversary. On this anniversary, a humanitarian mission was organized in...

In the face of State impunity, popular justice: the People's Tribunal in Siloé

In the first anniversary of the beginning of the historic National Strike in Colombia, a People' s Tribunal was organized in Siloé,...

“Loving what we have": the project of the Campesinx University of Miranda (Cauca)

By Jessica García Since 2016, a collective food sovereignty project has been under construction in the small town of Miranda, in...

Territorial dispossession, silence and resistance in Bajo Calima

By Jessica García On April 9, as members of Witness for Peace Solidarity Collective, we visited the communities that form part of the...

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...

Popular Resistance in the Age of Neoliberal War: The Case of Colombia

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

Naya River Reportback

The Witness for Peace Solidarity Collective Colombia team shares their experiences in the Naya River.

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...

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.

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