In 2011, huge peasant marches were organized throughout the country and the Peasant Association of the Cimitarra River Valley (ACVC) had an important role. For 23 years, ACVC has been working in the holistic defense of human rights, to protect the Continue reading 2011: A Resistant Peasantry
2010: A life in human rights – David Ravelo
Human rights defender David Ravelo had to withstand death threats, smear campaigns and prosecution after publicly reporting Continue reading 2010: A life in human rights – David Ravelo
2009: The DAS wire-tapping and surveillance scandal
In 2009 various human rights defenders, among them the founder of DH Colombia, lawyer Jorge Molano, denounced that they were victims of a state policy to spy on human rights defenders, Continue reading 2009: The DAS wire-tapping and surveillance scandal
2008: Amid the “false positives” and “parapolitics” scandals
While marches were being organized to reject the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia – Peoples’ Army (FARC-EP), there was a group of the armed conflict’s victims who did not feel recognized and whose demands for justice, truth, and guarantees of non-repetition Continue reading 2008: Amid the “false positives” and “parapolitics” scandals
2007: Returning from exile
Yanette Bautista is Nydia Érika Bautista’s sister. In 1987, Nydia was tortured and disappeared in Bogotá during an operation carried out by Army Brigades III and XX. Since then, Yanette Bautista and her family have not faltered, not even for a minute, in their search for justice Continue reading 2007: Returning from exile