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On April 28, PBI-Colombia tweeted: “We accompany @Justiciaypazcol [Inter-Church Commission for Justice and Peace] in the Alto Guayabal humanitarian reserve for an exercise to strengthen Embera-Eyabida women’s organizations in the framework of JEP [Special Jurisdiction for Peace] order 175, which decrees precautionary measures in favor of the indigenous communities of Read more…

On April 28, PBI-Colombia tweeted: “We accompany @Credhos_Paz in the El Guayabo community, in the process of organizational strengthening in the face of various problems that they present and in the identification of environmental and sociopolitical affectations in the area, derived from omissions of the institutions.” This follows the CREDHOS Read more…

On April 25, CREDHOS posted: “CREDHOS accompanied the day of mobilization for the rejection of the murder of the minor Juan Sebastian, in the Corregimiento de Puente Sogamoso, municipality of Puerto Wilches. Faced with this action that took the life of a minor, innocent of these dynamics of the armed Read more…

On April 13, PBI-Colombia tweeted: “We accompany @Justiciaypazcol [the Inter-Church Commission for Justice and Peace] in the #Cacarica [river basin] in the dialogue between the ethnic communities victims #Cavida [the Community of Self-Determination, Life, and Dignity of Cacarica] and #Clamores and the State, 10 years after the sentence of @CorteIDH Read more…

On April 11, PBI-Colombia tweeted: “We were accompanying @Justiciaypazcol [the Inter-Church Commission on Justice and Peace] in meetings with leaders of the communities of Bajo San Juan #Buenaventura so that communities historically affected by the armed conflict can jointly build proposals for #conciliation and #peace.” PBI-Colombia has been accompanying the Read more…

News photo of police at scene of explosive device near CREDHOS office. On April 10, PBI-Colombia tweeted: “We express our great concern about the installation of an explosive device in front of the office of @Credhos_Paz [the Regional Corporation for the Defence of Human Rights] in #Barrancabermeja. Security measures are Read more…

On April 7, PBI-Colombia tweeted: “We accompany @cdpsanjose [Peace Community of San José de Apartadó] in #ViaCrucis [Stations of the Cross], making #memory members of the community and peasants killed during the years in #territory. Remembering episodes of suffering but also reinforcing the convictions of peaceful resistance and defense of Read more…

On March 28, PBI-Colombia tweeted: “We accompany @Credhos_Paz at the Camp for dignified life and total peace, a fundamental space to know the situation of violations of #HumanRights and #InternationalHumanitarianLaw and seek alternatives for #prevention and #protection in the territory.” Earlier, CREDHOS had tweeted: “We were at the Camp for Read more…

On March 27, PBI-Colombia tweeted: “We were in [the municipality of] Tibú accompanying @dhColombia [the Associated Network of Human Rights Defenders] at a meeting with the [Indigenous] Barí people to prepare a search protocol for #MissingPersons that respects the principles of Barís law and philosophy.” The Bari peoples Last year, Read more…