Last June, when we were accompanying the Inter-Church Justice and Peace Commission (CIJP) in the Humanitarian Zone, Camelias (Curvaradó), I met a young boy from the Humanitarian Zone Nueva Esperanza (Cacarica). Continue reading CAVIDA, process of non-violent resistance, for dignified life on the land
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Finalists for the Diakonia Human Rights Prize 2017
PBI is proud to announce that four of the organisations we accompany have been selected as finalists for the National Human Rights Prize, Diakonia 2017. Continue reading Finalists for the Diakonia Human Rights Prize 2017
Eight nominees for the National Human Rights Award are accompanied by PBI
Each year there is a ceremony for the National Human Rights Defense Award in Colombia. The award, organised by Diakonia Suecia seeks to recognise, highlight and applaud the work of individual defenders, processes, organisations and human rights NGOs that carry out their work in vulnerable and risky conditions. Continue reading Eight nominees for the National Human Rights Award are accompanied by PBI
Concern about the murder of human rights defenders in Colombia
Causes for concern are the wave of assassinations and the serious situation of risk that human rights defenders, social and political leaders are facing in Colombia and the rise of the neo-paramilitary phenomenon in Colombia during the beginning of the post-agreement phase of the peace process.
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