Improving the Security of Women Human Rights Defenders in rural Colombia The Asociación de Mujeres Campesinas de Argelia (AMAR) is a Colombian women-led organisation based in Argelia, Cauca. Consistin...
Today, Civil Rights Defenders launches the book Frontera Común (Shared Border), which gathers six experiences of human rights defenders who risk their lives along the dividing line between Colomb...
William Pedraza, 44, was shot to death on 2 September. He paid with his life for his fight against sexual exploitation and drug trafficking in the region. On 2 September, William Pedraza, a member o...
The human rights crisis along the border between Colombia and Venezuela is a regional challenge and cannot be solved by efforts on just one side of the border. A new report from Civil Rights Defenders...
Environmental human rights defender Angela Maldonado has started training a new generation of rights activists in the Amazon. And it is needed. Corruption in the country is high, and being close to th...
On Wednesday night, Colombian human rights organization and Civil Rights Defenders partner, Fundación de Derechos Humanos Joel Sierra – Joel Sierra Foundation – was attacked by an armed group at...
Colombia is the deadliest country in the world for human rights defenders. Of the more than 330 human rights defenders murdered around the world last year, 169 came from Colombia and most of them from...
Civil Rights Defenders calls on the Colombian government to increase efforts to de-escalate violence, guarantee the right to peaceful protest and work with human rights organisations to prev...
Every day for two weeks, thousands of people have protested against Colombian president Iván Duque’s policies. On 8 May, two prominent Colombian orga...
Colombian environmental human rights defender and Natalia Project participant Angela Maldonado receives the 2020 National Geographic Buffet Award for Leadership in Conservation in ...
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