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Justice For Colombia (UK)

JFC is an organisation set up in 2002 by the British trade union movement to support Colombian civil society in its struggle for human rights, labour rights, peace and social justice.

https://justiceforcolombia.org

Artículos

  • Colombia human rights update March 2022

    1ro de abril, puesto en línea por Nick
    Colombia experienced high levels of violence in many regions throughout March. According to the INDEPAZ human rights organisation, the first three months of 2022 saw a rise in killings of social activists and massacres. From 1 January to 31 March, there were 48 murders of social activists and (...)

  • Army alleged to have killed six civilians before falsely presenting them as armed combatants

    1ro de abril, puesto en línea por Nick
    The army killed six people during a raid in southern Colombia before falsely reporting the victims as members of an armed group active in the region, according to social organisations based in the region. The raid was carried out on Tuesday 28 March in Puerto Leguizamo in the department of (...)

  • Forced displacement rose by 148% and confinement by 60% in Colombia in 2021

    31 de marzo, puesto en línea por Nick
    The number of people forced from their homes by violence increased massively in 2021, new findings by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) have shown. According to a report by the organisation, Colombia saw a 148 per cent rise in cases of mass forced displacement (involving a (...)

  • Could the left take power in Colombia? (JFC article for New Internationalist)

    31 de marzo, puesto en línea por Nick
    This article by JFC was published in New Internationalist on 29 March 2022. With the South American country closer than ever to electing a leftwing government, Nick MacWilliam explores what it could mean for peace and human rights. As Colombia gears up for its presidential poll in May, the (...)

  • Calls for recount after major irregularities in congressional election results

    18 de marzo, puesto en línea por Nick
    Colombia’s main election-monitoring body, the Electoral Observation Mission (MOE), has asked to review thousands of polling booths amid strong evidence of missing votes in the recent congressional elections. Since the elections were held on Sunday 13 March, a number of parties have reported (...)