Óscar Montero was born in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, he is part of the Kankuamo tribe. He has dedicated his life to defending Colombia's indigenous tribes. This is his testimony. Óscar Montero was born in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta in northern Colombia, home to four ancestral indigenous tribes: Kankuamos, Koguis, Arhuacos […]

The following is a short list of criminalization cases in Colombia since 2000. Arrest and prosecution of David Ravelo, president of the Corporación Regional para la Defensa de los Derechos Humanos, CREDHOS, in Barrancabermeja, 2010. Detention of Carolina Rubio Esguerra, Committee for Soldisary with Political Prisoners, 2010, Bucaramanga. Peasant mobilization in Catatumbo, 2013. Multiple detentions, […]

The criminalization or protest has a long history in Colombia.   The use of legal measures to quell participation in social and political movements has been implemented as part of the “national security” counterinsurgency doctrine embraced by Colombia and many other Latin American governments during the Cold War.  In the past years, with the waning of […]

Colombia has long been heralded as one of the oldest and most durable democracies in Latin America, with only one short period of military dictatorship in the twentieth century.  Yet Colombia’s reputation as Latin America’s oldest constitutional democracy is complicated.  In the last decades, Bogotá regularly limited freedom of assembly, association, movement and expression.  Popular […]

The conflict between leftist guerrillas and state security forces and their paramilitary allies has claimed more than one quarter of a million lives over the past half century, mostly civilians.[1]  In that same time, more than seven million Colombians were displaced from their homes, with hundreds of thousands fleeing the country altogether.  The Peace Accords […]

Alto Comisionado para la Paz. 2015. “Contribución al entendimiento del conflicto armado en Colombia. Comisión Histórica del Conflicto y sus Víctimas.” www.altocomisionadoparalapaz.gov.co/mesadeconversaciones/PDF/InformeComisionHistoricadelConflictoysusVictimas Libardo José Anize, Felipe Cammaert y Manuel Alejandro Iturralde, Estados de excepción y razón de Estado en Colombia (Bogotá: Estudios Ocasionales Cijus-Universidad de los Andes, 1997); Mauricio García Villegas, “Constitucionalismo perverso. Normalidad y […]

This content is not available in the selected language. Human Rights Organizations Instituto Latinoamericano para una Sociedad y un Derecho Alternativos, ILSA http://ilsa.org.co Colectivo de Abogados José Alvear Restrepo, CAJARhttps://www.colectivodeabogados.org Comision Colombiana de Juristas, CCJhttps://www.coljuristas.org Programa Somos Defensoreshttps://somosdefensores.org Comisión Intereclesial de Justicia y Paz, CIJPhttps://www.justiciaypazcolombia.com Asociación de Familiares de Detenidos Desaparecidos, ASFEDDEShttps://asfaddes.org Movimiento Nacional de […]

Extrait: Una decena de líderes sociales y activistas han sido asesinados en las últimas semanas, a pesar de que, en numerosos países de América Latina, al igual que el resto del mundo, viven en cuarentena. La actual situación de crisis sanitaria mundial, que golpea desde hace semanas al planeta, está causando estragos a los líderes sociales y activistas en América Latina. El confinamiento, una acción para prevenir el contagio del temido virus COVID-19, está siendo un arma de doble filo para ellos.

This content is not available in the selected language. Visionnez l’ensemble de discussions, commentaires critiques et débats qui ont permis d’approfondir la réflexion des six axes thématiques, proposés par le GRIPAL avec un groupe multidisciplinaire de collègues et d’assistants latino-américains, lors de ce Séminaire International, coorganisé avec la Maîtrise en études culturelles latino-américaines de la Pontificia Universidad Javeriana – Colombia. Véan […]