PBI-Colombia accompanies CAHUCOPANA as communities analyze and evaluate their self-protection measures

Published by Brent Patterson on October 22, 2024

The Humanitarian Action Corporation for Coexistence and Peace in Northeast Antioquia (Cahucopana) has posted:

“Resistance and denunciation, when the bullets sound, our voices more!

On the 15th of October, Cahucopana Nordeste and social organizations Guardias campesinas [Peasant Guard] @Gacena, #AMATNASB, (ancestral and traditional agro-mining association of Northeast Antioquia and South Bolivar) #AMUSUNASB (the Association of Women in Overcoming of Northeastern Antioquia and Southern Bolívar) met in the village of #MinaNueva to analyse and evaluate our community self-protection mechanisms for the defence and permanence of mining, peasant and ethnic communities in the territories.

Thanks to the international cooperation of the Embassy of Canadá in Colombia and with the accompaniment of Peace Brigades International – Colombia Project, [the German organization] Misereor, the United Nations Verification Mission in Colombia, DHColombia [the PBI-Colombia accompanied Associated Network of Human Rights Defenders], and Community Peacemaker Teams – Colombia.”

Cahucopana has been the victim of accusations, threats, harassment and murders since its creation in 2004. PBI-Colombia has accompanied Cahucopana since 2013.