Posted by FOR Colombia For 10 years, FOR volunteers have been accompanying the Peace Community in Colombia every single day. Our previous anniversary video included interviews of former FOR volunteers who had returned to Colombia in August 2011 to visit the peace...
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Celebrating ten years of protection in Colombia
By FOR Colombia Tuesday, November 22, 2011, 10:00am In 2002, the first two FOR volunteers made the muddy trek up a mountainside to accompany the San José de Apartadó peace community — a project of campesinos in northwestern Colombia who had declared themselves neutral...
Winds of Peace in Colombia and the Fate of Paramilitary Structures
By Susana Pimiento On August 27, the buzz about the peace talks between the Colombian government and the leftist FARC guerrillas grew exponentially, as Telesur reported early in the morning that an initial agreement has been reached to start a dialogue that would...
Urgent action for safety of a Colombia Peace Community
By FOR Threatening phone calls. Illegal detentions. And a family’s home burned down. That’s what members of the San José de Apartadó Peace Community in Colombia have had to face just in the past month. Join us in calling on the U.S. Ambassador to Colombia to demand a...
Peace Community leader Eduar Lancheros has passed into history
By FOR Colombia Tuesday, July 31, 2012, 2:55pm Eduar Lancheros, a leader in the Peace Community of San José de Apartadó, was the one who first asked FOR to accompany the community with a regular presence. “We want you to be a witness to who we are,” he said. He died...
“When I die, it will be here for someone else”
By John Lindsay-Poland Interview with Peace Community Farmers By Dominque Aulisio The end of April marks my first month here in the Peace Community of San José of Apartadó, where I will be living for the next year as a peace accompanier with FOR. My first weeks here...
Solemn Anniversaries
By FOR Colombia Friday, March 2, 2012, 4:11pm By Charlotte Melly February brought two important dates for the Peace Community and FOR. February 7 marked a decade of FOR´s permanent peace presence: ten years since community members greeted the first volunteers and...
Today: A decade of protection in Colombia
By FOR Colombia On February 7, 2002, the first FOR human rights accompaniment team arrived to accompany the people of La Union in Colombia. Today as we celebrate FOR’s tenth anniversary of presence in the peace community, we are members of a community full of life:...