Our partner, renown human rights lawyer Jorge Molano, last week represented 3 trade-unions in court, in a successful case to have the Colombian State recognised crimes it committed against those unions from the Presidents office under ex-President Alvaro Uribe Velez....
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Pacific School of Religion Colombia Delegation
At the moment, we're hosting delegates from the Pacific School of Religion, Berkeley, showing them a little bit of Colombia, introducing them o our partners, and hoping to build connections. Lots of people wanted to come but weren't able, so we're able to offer the...
Displacement in El Tamarindo
El Tamarindo is a community located on the outskirts of Barranquilla, on Colombia's Caribbean coast. The members of this community grow platano, keep animals, and try to get by in their village that they arrived at 12 years ago after being displaced by violence...
IFOR Delegation Arrives
Hard at work.
Santos Asks Forgiveness From the Peace Community of San Jose
From El Espectador, translated by FOR Peace Presence. Original: http://bit.ly/1gmXaz1 President Juan Manuel Santos apologized to the Peace Community of San Jose de Apartado, which opted for peaceful resistance in the midsts of armed conflict, and were in the past...
Join the March 2014 IFOR Delegation!
There's no better way to improve your understanding of active non-violence in Colombia, to demonstrate international solidarity, or to get to the heart of the global issues that are effecting the organizations and communities we work with, than by coming over and...
This Is Peace: “Walking The Word” in Colombia
By Chris Courtheyn "Caminando la palabra," or “walking the word,” is how Siriaco and Diego*, participants from indigenous Cauca and Guajira communities, described what we had done on our recently completed Peace And Solidarity Pilgrimage to Rodoxalí, in this war-torn...
Army Actions Increase Risk for FOR and Peace Community
By John Lindsay-Poland We are concerned that Colombian Army actions in San José de Apartadó put peace community residents and FOR observers in acute danger, and are in violation of the recent Colombian Constitutional Court ruling regarding the security of peace...