For the English version, click here. Asesinato de la defensora de derechos humanos de la red CONPAZ y lideresa del Consejo comunitario del Bajo Calima Emilsen Manyoma, junto con su esposo Joe Javier Rodallega en Buenaventura Estimadxs señorxs, Reciban un cordial...
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Eviction of Tamarindo Underway
The displacement of Asotracampo Tamarindo is currently underway. Riot police, bulldozers, and a group of civilans armed with machetes have started demolishing the homes of local families; the vast majority displaced from other regions by Colombia's armed conflict....
Black lives matter everywhere
We're grieving for our friends in Buenaventura. Recently, two young black lives were stolen from the community by paramilitaries. Christian, 15, was shot in the back while fleeing attackers who were trying to forcibly recruit him. Sol, 17, was fatally stabbed while...
URGENT: FOR peace award winner Ricardo Esquivia at risk
In 2008, the Fellowship of Reconciliation awarded the Pfeffer Peace Award to Ricardo Esquivia for his work in the peace movement of the High Mountain Zone of El Carmen de Bolívar, Colombia. Ricardo has recently received death threats from the paramilitary group Los...
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...