The Peace Brigades International-Colombia Project accompanies the Association for Social Research and Action (Nomadesc) and its president Berenice Celeita.
Nomadesc has posted on Instagram:
“Gaza, I say your name.
Gaza is us.
We are called Nomadesc and the Intercultural University of the Peoples.
From Cali, city of resistance, from the southwestern region of Colombia that has experienced genocide at the hands of Álvaro Uribe Vélez and his subordinate Iván Duque Márquez, we reject the genocide in Palestine and join the voices around the world that are rising up to demand an end to the genocide.
For #Palestine, for life.
NO MORE GENOCIDE.
We pass the word.”
Nomadesc
The Peace Brigades International-Colombia Project has highlighted: “Founded in 1999, the Association for Research and Social Action Nomadesc has been defending human rights in the southwestern part of Colombia for more than twenty years. It advises and accompanies social, union, women’s, indigenous, Afro-descendant and peasant organizations. As a result of her work in this area, its president, Berenice Celeita, was the victim of persecution by State agents in operations with the alleged purpose of assassinating her. In this emblematic case of the Colombian armed conflict, some of the State officials involved in her persecution were sanctioned by the Colombian justice system in 2018.”
Photo: Berenice Celeita wears a keffiyeh in solidarity with the people of Palestine at a public forum in Ottawa, October 30, 2023.
At the conclusion of a Peace Brigades International-Canada organized webinar on October 24, 2024, Celeita poignantly stated:
“We can’t forget that we are facing a genocide, the people of Palestine, we see you, we have marched and mobilized, we will continue to do this because we see there are huge, powerful entities who are trying to ignore us but the people will continue to come together and fight for the dignity of all people because dignity is the only option that we have.”
We continue to accompany and amplify the work of Nomadesc.
