Peace Brigades International-Switzerland Advocacy Coordinator Kim-Mai Vu recently made two presentations about the human rights situation in Colombia at the United Nations Human Rights Council session in Geneva. On September 17, at the Interactive dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on Truth, Justice, Reparation and Guarantees of non-recurrence, Kim-Mai noted: “The Read more…
Earlier this month, Peace Brigades International signed this letter that highlights: “The activities of [public development banks] have repeatedly exacerbated poverty, widened inequalities and fuelled human rights violations (such as reprisals, land grabbing and forced evictions) without access to any useful remedies for affected communities.” United Nations High Commissioner for Read more…
Earlier this month 500 social organizations in Colombia released a 442-page report on the first two years of the presidency of Ivan Duque titled: The misrule of the apprentice – Authoritarianism, war and pandemic. The full report (in Spanish) can be accessed through the website of the PBI-Colombia accompanied Inter-Church Read more…
Columbia Britanica Noticias reports: “A group of Colombians residing in the city of Vancouver have started a campaign to ask the Government of Canada to [demand the full implementation of the 2016 Peace Accord and condemn] the massacres, human rights violations and police brutality in Colombia.” Their petition can be Read more…
On September 17, the Peace Brigades International-Colombia Projected tweeted: “This weekend PBI accompanied in the municipality of San Pablo, south of Bolívar, @ACVCRAN who conducted workshops with rice farmers in the framework of the project ‘Defense of the territory and human rights in the Peasant Reserve Zone of the Cimitarra Read more…
On September 16, El Nuevo Oriente reported on the eight social leaders from San Luis de Palenque, Casanare, Colombia arrested on November 27, 2018 in relation to their opposition to the social and environmental harms caused to their community by Toronto-based Frontera Energy and its Cubiro Block operations. The article Read more…
The Peace Brigades International-Colombia Project accompanies Daniel Prado, associate lawyer with the Inter-Church Justice and Peace Commission. Prado is representing the family of Camilo Barrientos who was allegedly murdered by the Twelves Apostles, a paramilitary group that Santiago Uribe Velez, the brother of former president Alvaro Uribe Velez, is accused Read more…
The Peace Brigades International-Colombia Project has posted: PBI Colombia opens the call for the admission of applications for the Training/Selection Meeting week of January 2021, which will take place during the week of January 16 to 23 in Spain, for the first incorporation in Colombia on February 13 of the Read more…
Photo: Vanguardia. On September 15, La Republica published an interview with Charle Gamba, the President and Chief Executive Officer of Calgary-based Canacol Energy Ltd. Gamba is asked if Canacol will participate in the fracking pilot projects in Colombia. He responded: “Yes, we have two unconventional oil blocks that we have Read more…
On September 14, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet presented a Global Human Rights Update to the Human Rights Council. That report noted: “The severe socio-economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in the Americas region should alert all actors to the urgency of addressing the region’s profound inequalities Read more…