Video still: CREDHOS president Ivan Madero, January 4, 2025. Infobae reports: “On January 1, the Regional Corporation for the Defense of Human Rights (CREDHOS) received a text message with a threatening pamphlet that pointed to social leaders and human rights defenders as new military targets. The threat was not only Read more…
Photo: PBI accompanied defenders with Working Group chairperson Fernanda Hopenhaym. PBI-Switzerland has noted: “Four PBI-supported human rights defenders participated in the UN Forum on Business & Human Rights in Geneva, as part of an international delegation representing environmental and social rights struggles.” They add: “Among the defenders supported by PBI Read more…
Video still: A military helicopter takes Ferney Salcedo, Yulivel Leal and four other social leaders from the villages of Venturosa and Platanales following their arrest on November 27, 2018. Video by Prensa Libre Casanare. Today is the 6th anniversary of the arrest of eight community members who were protesting the Read more…
Photo: (from left to right) Ita from Mexico, Mar, Michael and Celia from the Spanish State, Valeria from Mexico. Yesterday, PBI-Colombia welcomed five new volunteers. The project noted: “From PBI-Colombia we receive with great enthusiasm the new brigade members, who from the Urabá-Bogotá and Barrancabermeja teams will accompany Colombian human Read more…
Today, October 23, the National Day of Recognition of Women Searchers of Victims of Forced Disappearance is commemorated in Colombia. On this day, Amnesty International has amplified the voice of Yanette Bautista, whose sister Nydia was forcibly disappeared in 1987. A key excerpt from Yanette’s testimony in Rolling Stone magazine Read more…
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 Read more…
Webinar speakers: Michel Forst, Yannick Wild, Berenice Celeita, Javier Garate. In his opening message today to the United Nations COP16 biodiversity conference in Colombia, UN Secretary General António Guterres said: “Our task at this COP is to move from words to deeds.” Those words, to be further negotiated at COP16, Read more…
Video: Juliette De Rivero presents the main concerns about the situation of environmental defenders in Colombia ahead of COP16. The Spanish news agency EFE reports: “The COP16 [biodiversity summit] in Colombia [taking place October 21 to November 1] is ‘an opportunity to improve the protection of environmental defenders’, says the Read more…
PBI-Colombia has posted on Instagram: “We accompanied the Inter-Church Justice and Peace Commission (CIJP) in the ‘Meeting of Art, Sport, Peacebuilding, Territory and Youth’ in Ciudad Bolivar on 12 October. During the cultural day, the participants redefined the public space and planned a music and skateboarding exhibition as a way Read more…
PBI-Colombia has posted: “We accompany the Inter-Church Commission of Justice and Peace together with ACT Swedish Church at the II Meeting of Young Peacebuilders in Buenaventura. More than 200 people gathered in the El Ruiz neighborhood in Comuna 12 to build cultural alternatives with young people from the territories.” FICONPAZ Read more…