The year 1996 was marked by the first mass forced displacements and attacks against human rights defenders, as well as the forced disappearance of lawyers, causing high levels of fear. Continue reading 1996: Year of political instability
Category Archives: Memory and tribute
1995: The Magdalena Medio region at the centre of socio-political violence
The Regional Corporation for the Defence of Human Rights (Corporación Regional para la Defensa de los Derechos Humanos – CREDHOS) is one of the organisations that originally requested the presence of PBI in Colombia. Continue reading 1995: The Magdalena Medio region at the centre of socio-political violence
1994: Father Javier Giraldo shares with us about the arrival of PBI to Colombia
Father Javier Giraldo is a great human rights defender who worked with the then Inter-congregation Commission for Justice and Peace (CIJP), also supporting victim’s organizations Continue reading 1994: Father Javier Giraldo shares with us about the arrival of PBI to Colombia
Alto Guayabal resists
Thruts and memory in the Bajo Atrato reagion – Chapter 2
For its second edition of the Festival of Memory, the Inter-Church Justice and Peace Commission (Comisión Intereclesial de Justicia y Paz – J&P) chose the So Bia Drua Humanitarian Environmental Indigenous Territory, in the Jiguamiandó́ river basin, Chocó department. An ancestral territory which has once again found itself caught in the middle of armed confrontation and attempts to control the lands, by illegal armed actors. Continue reading Alto Guayabal resists
Truth and Memory in the Bajo Atrato region
The Festival of Truth is an initiative of the Inter-Church Justice and Peace Commission (Comisión Intereclesial de Justicia y Paz – J&P), aimed at building peace in Colombian territories Continue reading Truth and Memory in the Bajo Atrato region