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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...

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...