The Grassroots Women’s Organisation (Organización Femenina Popular – OFP) was accompanied by PBI from 1995 to 2012. The OFP has been organising, training and mobilising women for 47 years, turning them into human rights defenders and project leaders Continue reading 2001: Women’s resistance in Barrancabermeja
Tag Archives: Barrancabermeja
The most dramatic events of 2017
Nineteen years after the terror
Why do we have to stand in line?
Why are they taking us away? Where to?
They can´t take us by force
Oh God! We are not getting into that truck! If you want to kill us, do it here. Murderer!
Challenges facing Colombia: reflections from the field
It has been an exciting year and a half accompanying human rights defenders in Colombia with the eyes of the world focused on the country emerging out of decades of violent conflict. Continue reading Challenges facing Colombia: reflections from the field
Trip to Campo Bijao
Campo Bijao is situated in the municipality of Yondó (Magdalena Medio), an area we travel to regularly from the field team in Barrancabermeja. Continue reading Trip to Campo Bijao