On 8 March 1908 in New York, a group of women who were fighting for their labour rights and calling for fairer wages were killed in a fire, in the factory where they were working[1]. Continue reading “We are women small-scale farmers, beautiful, courageous, part of the struggle”
Tag Archives: CAHUCOPANA
The need to implement collective protection measures: ACVC
Prevention, Protection, and Security for Human Rights Defenders,[1] is a program financed by the Catalan Agency for Development Cooperation (ACCD) and jointly coordinated by International Action for Peace (IAP) and the Peasant Association of the Cimitarra River Valley (ACVC). In the framework of this program the ACVC, and three partner organizations (Cahucopana, Aheramigua, and Ascamcat), met with state institutions and national and international organizations in Bogotá. Continue reading The need to implement collective protection measures: ACVC
Between hope and disappointment: a summary of 2018
Two years since the signing of the Peace Agreement between the Colombian government and the FARC guerrilla, the long process has begun towards the agreement’s implementation. Continue reading Between hope and disappointment: a summary of 2018
A collective response: humanitarian refuge houses in north-eastern Antioquia
In the centre of Remedios, a municipality in the north-east of the Antioquia department, we climb onto a chiva, a coloured community bus symbolic of the Colombian countryside and one of the most frequently used means of transport. Continue reading A collective response: humanitarian refuge houses in north-eastern Antioquia
“I am also called Magdalena”
An account of the first meeting of women from the Campesino Reserve Zone (ZRC) in the Cimitarra River Valley