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
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2000: The Return to Cacarica
Even in the toughest years of the armed conflict, Colombia still had movements of resistance and hope. After more than three years living displaced in different places Continue reading 2000: The Return to Cacarica
1999: PBI opens an office in Medellín
The armed conflict arrived in urban centres. After the dark years of terrorism created by the Medellín drug cartel, some districts in the city of Medellín were under guerrilla control, and others were controlled by paramilitary groups Continue reading 1999: PBI opens an office in Medellín
1998: Persecution against human rights organisations
By 1998 Colombia had been facing years of high levels of violence, with paramilitaries from the United Self-Defence Forces of Colombia (Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia – AUC) expanding their presence to many parts of the country, Continue reading 1998: Persecution against human rights organisations
1996: Year of political instability
The year 1996 was marked by the first mass forced displacements and attacks against human rights defenders, as well as the forced disappearance of lawyers, causing high levels of fear. Continue reading 1996: Year of political instability