La Vía Campesina | "Ceasefire" Bulletin | Sept-Oct. Edition 2020
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HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS PERSIST UNDER THE DUQUE GOVERNMENT | #URGENTACTIONCOLOMBIA
"Feelings of helplessness and pain for what the communities are experiencing," is how one of the participants summed up the Humanitarian Missions conducted by social organizations and human rights groups in Colombia. Since the national government decreed its lockdown to fight the Covid-19 pandemic, the violence has strangely increased against the country's rural population at the hands of official and irregular armed groups. Read more ... [3]
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COLOMBIA: DUQUE INSISTS ON ENDING THE COMPREHENSIVE NATIONAL PROGRAM FOR THE REPLACEMENT OF ILLICIT CROPS
The implementation of the PNIS (Integrated National Program for the Substitution of Illicitly Used Crops), laid out in point 4 of the Final Agreement, is facing serious difficulties under the Iván Duque administration. Read more ... [4]
STATEMENT: HUMANITARIAN MISSION FOR LIFE AND PEACE IN THE EASTERN PLAINS AND ORINOCO, COLOMBIA
Social and human rights organizations and communities of faith carried out this Humanitarian Mission to respond to the urgent call of the communities in the south of Meta and the north of Guaviare. FOR TEN DAYS (JULY 18 TO 27, 2020), WE TRAVELED THROUGHOUT THE REGION. Read more ... [5]
COLOMBIA: LITTLE PROGRESS IN THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE COMPREHENSIVE RURAL REFORM
Even if the implementation of the Comprehensive Rural Reform is advancing at a snail's pace, the government's actions don't embrace the spirit of the agreement and are aimed at faking compliance with the Agreement. There are several reasons for this: Read more ... [6]
COLOMBIA: HUMAN RIGHTS, PEACE IS BLEEDING DRY
Thanks to the peace agreement, the FARC-EP left the territories, but the Duque Government's inability to fight the new forms of paramilitarism and criminal gangs has allowed illegal armed actors to take over the territories abandoned by the FARC. This has led to continued human rights violations such as forced disappearances, forced displacements, massacres, sexual assaults and the confinement of communities. Read more ... [7]
THE COLOMBIAN ARMY IS ANOTHER THREAT TO COMMUNITIES | #FALSEPOSITIVES
The murder of civilians by the military with the objective of presenting them as firefight casualties is a crime popularly known as "false positives" in Colombia. This common practice of the Army since 1994 peaked in the first decade of this century when 5,763 people were murdered. The post-agreement process has had to deal with the persistence of this practice which has apparently become a part of the public force's modus operandi. Read more ... [8]
COLOMBIA: MARCHERS HIGHLIGHT HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS
"As marchers for dignity, we're walking for life and in this way, we aren't drawing attention from the national government. We're sounding a warning call to the international community and human rights defenders, because its the State that is killing us." Read more... [9]
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