In February 2023, ABColombia, alongside its Colombian partner NGOs, hosted a conference in Bogotá entitled “Violence Against Women, Girls and LGBTQI+ Community: Its Causes and Consequences”. Women’s...
International Civil Society Organisations signatories of this statement issue an urgent alert regarding worrying situation facing communities in Sur de Bolivar. Social, regional, and national social...
4 March 2024 This is an unofficial translation and summary of the alert issued by the communities named below. The Afro-Colombian communities living on collectively owned and ancestral land, namely,...
Today, 27 February 2024, the Wiwa Indigenous Peoples, together with Colombian human rights organisations CINEP, CAJAR, AIDA and FIDH, have issued an urgent alert to notify authorities and the...
The Security Council visited Colombia between 7 and 11 February 2024, the delegation consisted of the UK as the penholder on the Security Council for Colombia, and co-delegation leaders Guyana, and...
According to the ‘Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child regarding the Participation of Children in Armed Conflicts’. Which Colombia signed and enacted into law, armed groups...
Oidhaco, a network of European civil society organisations and other international organisations, welcome the visit of the Security Council to Colombia at a time when it is necessary to strengthen...
It is with grave concern that ABColombia has received reports from our partners on clashes between armed groups in the Southern Bolívar Department, and Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta (the Heart of the...
“5 años de cambios políticos significativos”: Organizaciones internacionales presentan un informe sobre los derechos humanos en Colombia La Oficina Internacional de Derechos Humanos-Acción Colombia...
‘5 Years of Significant Political Change’: International Organizations Present Shadow Report on Human Rights in Colombia The International Office for Human Rights Office-Action Colombia (Oidhaco)...
On 18 May 2023, Colombia hosted an interinstitutional conference to discuss UN Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security and Colombia's progress in developing a National Action Plan (NAP) for its...
Inter-American Court of Human Rights concludes state was responsible for a crime against humanity in respect to the elimination of over 6,000 members of the Union Patriótica Colombia’s Communist...
The signatories to this press release celebrate that 24 November 2021 marks the fifth anniversary of the Peace Agreement between the Colombian Government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of...
**Following the International Day for Mine Awareness and Assistance in Mine Action last month, ABColombia reflects on the ongoing presence of antipersonnel mines in Colombia. ** While mines may have...
On March 24 is worldwide celebrated the International Day for the Right to the Truth concerning Gross Human Rights Violations and for the Dignity of Victims. It is on this day that the memory of...
The Mothers of Soacha discovered their sons were being extra judicially executed by the Colombian Army to boost their combat killings. This practice is known as ‘Falsos Positivos’ (false positives)...
On 15 May 2020 there was an armed skirmish between illegal armed groups in the Rio Quito Choco, as one armed groups attempted to, and succeeded in robbing, a floating mining platform (called Entable...
International Civil Society Organisations advocating for Human Rights in Colombia, including SOLIDAR member Movimiento por la Paz (MPDL), developed a communication: supporting the call in favour of...
On 23 March 2020 the social organisations and communities in Chocó brought out a public statement about the deterioration that in the humanitarian situation and the increase in the violations of...
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This written evidence focuses on human rights defenders and draws examples of work undertaken by the FCO in relation to Colombia Giving response to the Foreign Affair Committee’s inquiry into Human...
