Colombia, the pandemic before the pandemic
Protests marked the last quarter of 2019 throughout several countries in South America. The discontentment took to the streets and promised not to return home until it was heard and attended to....
View ArticleStatement Regarding the End of the Unilateral Ceasefire by the ELN
On April 1 of this year, a unilateral ceasefire was announced by the National Liberation Army – ELN, in response to the great difficulty that Colombia faces today with the challenges posed by the...
View Article7 Things that COVID-19 has revealed
On November 21, 2019, many sectors of Colombian society mobilized to demand basic rights such as dignified healthcare, education, working conditions, justice, an end to corruption, gender equality,...
View ArticleLent 2020 | Take Action for Peace in Colombia
While the virus pulls back the curtain on systemic injustice, it also presents each and every one of us with a decision on how we respond to our needs and the needs of those around us. Join the...
View ArticleColombia, the pandemic before the pandemic
Protests marked the last quarter of 2019 throughout several countries in South America. The discontentment took to the streets and promised not to return home until it was heard and attended to....
View ArticleStatement Regarding the End of the Unilateral Ceasefire by the ELN
On April 1 of this year, a unilateral ceasefire was announced by the National Liberation Army – ELN, in response to the great difficulty that Colombia faces today with the challenges posed by the...
View Article7 Things that COVID-19 has revealed
On November 21, 2019, many sectors of Colombian society mobilized to demand basic rights such as dignified healthcare, education, working conditions, justice, an end to corruption, gender equality,...
View ArticleLent 2020 | Take Action for Peace in Colombia
While the virus pulls back the curtain on systemic injustice, it also presents each and every one of us with a decision on how we respond to our needs and the needs of those around us. Join the...
View ArticleSome Reasons That Motivated the National Strike in Colombia
In Latin America there have been massive mobilizations and important social outbursts, which will surely lead to major political transformations and determine new directions for countries such as...
View ArticleMicoahumado — a micro portrait of Colombia
Even children are not safe from becoming involved: soldiers are offering candy in return for information, thereby violating rights of children. Photo: Juliane Assmann/CPT It’s a cloudy day at the end...
View ArticleHaving coffee with Laura
The House of Memory and of the Human Rights of Women. Photo: Juliane Assmann/ECAP We did not bury them We planted them. This is the phrase one encounters when walking through the Casa de la Memoria y...
View ArticleHumanitarian Crisis in Micoahumado
Humanitarian Crisis in #Micoahumado Take Action NOW! Photos: M. Knoblauch/CPT Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT) has been accompanying farmers and miners in the township of Micoahumado, in the southern...
View ArticleMaking possible what seemed impossible
Some of the leaders celebrate the sign “I want to thank God and all our accompaniers because, with your help, we have made possible what was believed to be impossible,” says don Misael Payares, leader...
View ArticleThe Slow Struggle for Land and Justice
„Since 2005… no, since 2002 we are fighting on this land.“, tells me Eugenio when I ask him about the history of the process and struggle that has led to this day. We are sitting in the shadow of the...
View ArticleVoices of Holy Week 2019
The solidarity in the campesinx* communities that work for the right to their territory is the fundamental base where the unity of the community consolidates. Unity is a force that is born from the...
View ArticleProud Campesina
“We don’t want to live with fear” / “We are campesinxs of Peace”. El Guayabo community has endured the scourge of paramilitarism and insurgency, resisting with creative nonviolent strategies. Now, a...
View ArticleWe did not bury them, we planted them
Foto: Marcos Knoblauch/CPT In memory of Esperanza Amaris Miranda – leader of the OFP – Organization Feminine Popular (Popular Women’s Organization) murdered on 16 October 2003 in Barrancabermeja...
View ArticleMore than 500 petitions for El Guayabo
Photo: Marcos Knoblauch/CPT The campaign that CPT Colombia launched during the month of January was a great success. More than 500 people contacted the Secretary of Government of Puerto Wilches,...
View ArticleThe ELN bombs a Police Academy
On the morning of Thursday, January 17th a car bomb exploded inside the grounds of the General Santander Police Cadet Academy in Bogota killing 21 (including the car driver) and injuring over 70...
View ArticleLas Pavas Resists
Photo by: Caldwell Manners/CPT We note with concern the contradictory decision of the judge which, in spite of proving that the campesinxs were pushed out by a paramilitary group and by a person in the...
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