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
2006: Lawyer’s collective accompanies resistance in Catatumbo
In 2006, we began to accompany a collective of women lawyers in Bucaramanga, the Luis Carlos Pérez Lawyers’ Collective (CCALP), which had been founded three years before. Continue reading 2006: Lawyer’s collective accompanies resistance in Catatumbo