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Closer all the time
The advances of the negotiations between the government and the FARC-EP in Havana become more concrete and hopeful every day. The announcements made by the chief negotiators from the government’s and...
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Urgent Action: Stop the Criminalization of Colombian Human Rights Defenders!
CPT Colombia asks the Colombian authorities to put a stop to the growing trend of judicial persecution and detention of campesino human rights defenders who are fighting for their rights to land and...
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The Popular Strike: A fight that never ends
Almost every year, from August 2013 up until today, campesino farmers in Colombia have taken to the main highways to demand guarantees from the government necessary to cultivate their land and thus...
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New death threats against CREDHOS president
New death threats against CREDHOS president Iván Madero Vergel Although the progress of the peace agreements shows that building peace is possible and the end of the war is closer than ever, the Human...
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Celebrating the voice of women!
Celebrating the voice of women! ” … Since the government of Belisario Betancur in 1982 up to the current peace process with President Santos, 61 documents have been signed that establish pacts between...
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Christian Peacemaker Teams Celebrate: “Peace is Possible.”
Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid. – John 14:27 Today is the day. The war with...
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In Colombia, the real work of peacebuilding begins now
Edinson Garcia, president of the Community Action Committee of El Guayabo calls for the release of community member Alvaro Garcia at a demonstration in front of the court in Barrancabermeja on May 5,...
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Colombia Rejects Peace Deal. Why and What Next?
A woman looks for her identification number on a chart at a local voting station. (Photo: Caldwell Manners) Five days have passed since the October 2nd referendum when 6,431,376 Colombians voted to...
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Women on the Frontlines of the Colombian Peace Movement
Last September, two graying fighters in the hemisphere’s longest-running armed conflict consented to an awkward handshake. Ernesto Londoño wrote in the New York Times that he watched Juan Manuel...
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‘It was a very sad day’
Photo by Marian DeCouto On Monday, September 26, 2016, I flew from Canada back to Colombia more excited than usual. After four years of negotiations with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia...
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El Guayabo and Bella Unión Leaders Free After Turning themselves in
Erik Payares, Santos Peña and Jhon Fredy Ortega embrace their family in celebration outside the court in Barrancabermeja. (CPT/Caldwell Manners) After six months of avoiding arrest under false and...
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Paramilitary Structures Very Active in Barrancabermeja
Ivan Madero during a march for peace in Barrancabermeja. (CPT/Caldwell Manners) The Regional Corporation for the Defense of Human Rights (CREDHOS) announced the publication of ‘CREDHOS Weighs In’,...
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“As women we declare ourselves political subjects”
Marylen Serna, national spokesperson for the Congreso de los Pueblos and Sonia Nevado, regional spokesperson for Marcha Patriotica read the event’s Declaration of the Women’s Gathering: Memory and...
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CREDHOS Demands Guarantees for Human Rights Defenders
In 2016, 72 human rights defenders and 18 leaders of the social and political movement Marcha Patriotica were assassinated, in addition to the large number of leaders and human rights defenders who...
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I love God
A man from Las Pavas collects firewood for community members who take nightly shifts to guard their crops from attacks by palm oil company, Aportes San Isidro’s private security. (Caldwell...
View ArticleHumanitarian and Social Crisis for Eviction of Farming Families of the El...
The undersigned organizations denounce before judicial authorities and national and international public opinion the imminent situation of humanitarian crisis of the Él Guayabo community facing a an...
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El Guayabo Eviction Suspended
El Guayabo residents dissect the suspended eviction with a brewing celebratory pot of sancocho, a local soup. (Caldwell Manners) [dropcap1]Y[/dropcap1]esterday, the eviction ordered for July 5 in El...
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Lack of guarantees slows the peace process
Leaders assassinated in 2017 The fears of human rights defenders in the region are becoming reality. While giving a summary of the context in the Magdalena Medio región, a member of the social movement...
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Threats against social leaders
CREDHOS leaders have received repeatedly death threats. Photo: Marian DeCouto/CPT In Barrancabermeja, paramilitary structures exercise direct and open territorial control. The inhabitants of this city...
View ArticlePalestine/ Colombia: Made in the USA
The US war economy is essentially upheld by the continual repression of our Palestinian and Colombian partners through military aid to two of the longest-running conflicts in recent history.
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