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Right to social protest in Chiriguaná, Cesar
Equipo Juridico Pueblos (EJP) believes that it is fundamentally important to accompany communities which have autonomously decided to exercise their right to social protest, as a way for them to be listened to and respond to the situations they are going through. In this case, the organisation is demanding justice for the murder of the professor and leader of the La Sierrita, El Cruce and La Estacion Council of Black Communities (Consesice), Naimen Augustin Lara, who died on 11th July 2016. Continue reading Right to social protest in Chiriguaná, Cesar
Pitalito: Caught between land grabs and eviction
In the department of Cesar, Equipo Jurídico Pueblos (EJP) accompanies communities which have had their land stolen and have been forced off their farmlands by neo-paramilitary groups. Continue reading Pitalito: Caught between land grabs and eviction
Extrajudicial killings: the case of Rafael Andres Plata Sanchez
Equipo Jurídico Pueblos (EJP) represents the families of victims of State crimes, including extrajudicial executions which are misleadingly known as ‘false positives’, demanding truth, justice, integral reparation and guarantees of non-repetition from the State, as well as results in the investigations by the justice system. Continue reading Extrajudicial killings: the case of Rafael Andres Plata Sanchez