Month: July 2013

Action Alert: Human Rights Accompaniers in Honduras Held Captive

URGENT ACTION Armed Men from Mininig Company Hold International Human Rights Defenders Captive By Friendship Office of the Americas On July 25, two international accompaniers from the Honduras Accompaniment Project (PROAH from its initials in Spanish), from...

Walking Toward Peace Amid the War

By Emily Schmitz On July 4, 2013, FOR accompanied the Colombian Association of Conscientious Objectors, ACOOC, during the release of Juan Carlos Poveda Camaro from the army base in Villavicencio, where he had been held, as a declared conscientious objector, for...

Hello and Adios

 By John Lindsay-Poland With both sadness at departure and joy in the path we’ve walked together, we bid farewell this month to Liza Smith, who has served for the last five-and-a-half years as coordinator of the Fellowship of Reconciliation Colombia team and...