San Luis de Palenque, Casanare Peace Brigades International-Canada coordinator Brent Patterson will be visiting Colombia between June 25 and July 6. While there, Patterson will meet with PBI-Colombia accompanied defenders and visit Bogota, Barrancabermeja, Puerto Wilches, Bajo Simacota, San Luis de Palenque and Cali. The focus of the visit will Read more…
Photo: Gustavo Petro and Francia Marquez on election night. On June 19, Gustavo Petro was elected the next president of Colombia. Petro and his vice-presidential running mate Francia Marquez, an Afro-Colombian lawyer and environmental defender, will be sworn into office on August 7. The day after the election, Prime Minister Read more…
On June 21, PBI-Colombia tweeted: “#HRC50 Human Rights Council @UN_HRC @pbigeneva before the Office of the Special Rapporteur #ProtestaSocial: No progress is being made on investigations into abuses committed by state actors #ParoNacional2021 increase in prosecutions of young people and attacks against those who represent them such as @nydia_erika @CSPP_” Read more…
Photo by Fernando Vergara/ Associated Press. On June 19, Gustavo Petro and Francia Marquez won the second-round vote to become the next president and vice-president of Colombia. They won with 50.49 per cent of the vote over the right-wing populist millionaire businessman Rodolfo Hernández (who won 47.25 per cent of Read more…
On June 17, PBI-Colombia tweeted: “Thank you @EmbAlemaniaCOL [German Embassy in Colombia] @caritas_ci [Caritas International] for meeting with @nydia_erika [Nydia Erika Bautista Foundation] after attacks and illegal intelligence against them, affecting +400 victims of #Forced Disappearance. International support is essential for #Women Searchers who demand Truth, Justice and Non-Repetition. @giz_gmbh Read more…
To subscribe to The Maple, click here. The Maple reports: A Canadian human rights organization says documents obtained from Global Affairs Canada (GAC) raise more concerns and questions than answers about whether or not the Colombian national police are using Canadian-made armoured vehicles to violate human rights. Peace Brigades International Read more…
Twitter photo: Juan Camilo Nariño, President of the Colombian Mining Association. Wednesday June 15 was “Colombia Day” at the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) mining conference in Toronto. Colombia’s Minister of Mines and Energy Diego Mesa Puyo was at PDAC 2022, which ran from June 13-15 this year. Read more…
Meeting with representatives of the Embassies of France, Sweden, the European Union and Ireland. On June 14, PBI-Colombia tweeted: “International support is key after repeated #intelligence attacks against the Nydia Erika Bautista Foundation, emblematic organization of #women, recognized for defense of #victims of forced disappearance. It is urgent to protect Read more…
Photo: Yesterday, the Mining Injustice Solidarity Network (MISN) tweeted: “We have shut down Front St in downtown Toronto and closed down traffic in front of #PDAC2022. We are standing with representatives from mining-impacted communities who have come to condemn PDAC & Canadian mining in their territories.” On June 13, Mining.com Read more…
Photo: Colombian police use what appears to be a Toronto-based INKAS-manufactured armoured vehicle to stop buses of delegates travelling to Cali for a popular assembly related to the national strike on July 17, 2021. In response to our Access to Information (ATIP) request submitted in September 2021 for details about Read more…