In El Guamo, in the Curbarado Collective Territory, we celebrated the creation of a new Biodiversity Zone: in “La Esmeralda” farm, which belongs to the Durango family who were victims of the violence in the 1990s. Continue reading New Biodiversity Zone is created
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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
Eighteen days of public protests show another side to Buenaventura
I hear Miyela’s voice, broken, desperate, barely able to speak the words she recorded at 3:47 in the morning at her house: “What is happening to my people in Buenaventura?”, asks the voice that breaks down into tears that shatter my heart, “what is happening to us?”. Continue reading Eighteen days of public protests show another side to Buenaventura
About the land
This time our destination was Mapiripan, a municipality in Meta, one of Colombia’s largest departments, in a region known as The Plain, where the main economic activities have traditionally been agriculture, cattle ranching and petroleum production. Continue reading About the land
The Cacarica river basin is again in the midst of conflict and violence
Twenty years ago, the unimaginable happened in the settlement of Bijao, Cacarica (in the Bajo Atrato region, Chocó). Continue reading The Cacarica river basin is again in the midst of conflict and violence