Yessika Hoyos, Lina Peláez, German Romero, Franklin Castañeda. We will be watching two webinars on Monday January 24, the Day of the Endangered Lawyer. The webinar that day with Lina Peláez (Nomadesc), German Romero (dhColombia) and Franklin Castañeda (CSPP) starts at 11 am EST/COT (5 pm CET). To register, please Read more…
Text of December 7, 2021 media release: The Québec-Canada-Colombia human rights verification mission was present in Colombia from November 25 to December 7, 2021, at the invitation of Colombian civil society. The objective of the mission was to collect testimonies and verify the allegations of serious human rights violations reported Read more…
Video: Climate activists from Colombia name some of the environmental defenders killed in Colombia outside the UN COP26 climate summit, November 2021. On January 13, Reuters reported: “At least 78 human rights defenders were killed in Colombia in 2021, the United Nations human rights agency said on Thursday, adding that Read more…
On December 23, 2021, PBI-Colombia accompanied the Peace Community of San José de Apartadó on a march in defence of life and to protest the murder of Huber Velásquez just a few days earlier. On January 11, PBI-Colombia tweeted: “Death threats increase in #Uraba against the Peace Community of San Read more…
Colombian lawyer Yessika Hoyos will be speaking on a Day of the Endangered Lawyer webinar on Monday January 24 at 5:00-7:00 pm EST/COT. To register, please click here. PBI-Colombia has accompanied CCAJAR since 1995. In this article, Heather Neun and Catherine Morris of Lawyers Rights Watch Canada (LRWC) write: “Colombia Read more…
This is an election year for Colombia. The presidential election will take place on May 29 and current President Ivan Duque, who is not running for re-election, will hand over power to the new president on August 7. There will also be legislative elections on March 13. That election will Read more…
Photo: National strike street medic John Fernando Marín Marín. On January 8, PBI-Colombia tweeted: “Without protection and with serious #impunity in case of leader of medical missions from #nationalstrike in #Colombia, around death threats and forced disappearance of his brother.” El Tiempo reports: “The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) Read more…
This year, the Day of the Endangered Lawyer, marked annually on January 24, will feature the situation of lawyers in danger in Colombia. An online event is being planned by the Law Society of Ontario, Lawyers’ Rights Watch Canada, and Human Rights Watch Canada. The event is scheduled to take Read more…
Photo: Heather Neun of PBI-Canada visited the El Diviso village in Bajo Simacota in July 2021 where community members shared concerns about Parex Resources. In recent years, Parex has secured 26 new exploration blocks in Colombia. On January 6, the Colombian newspaper Portafolio reported: “Of the 69 blocks that the Read more…
Just before the RCMP raid against Wet’suwet’en land defenders in February 2020, this march in Ottawa said “RCMP off Wet’suwet’en land”. Photo by Brent Patterson. Wet’suwet’en land defender Sleydo’ has described the Community-Industry Response Group (C-IRG) as a specialized group of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) that deal specifically Read more…