The risks of defenders of the right to land and territory in the post-peace agreement scenario in Colombia

UN Rapporteur, Michel Forst, meets with Protection International, PAS, and CocoCauca COCOCAUCA in Colombia

6/12/2018 – UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders, Michel Forst, met with representatives of Protection International, Pensamiento y Acción Social (PAS), and grassroots organization COCOCAUCA in Popayán, Cauca region, Colombia. They discussed the threats facing numerous communities across the West and South West of Colombia, including the Cauca, Bolívar, and Magdalena […]

#ForThoseWhoDiedTrying & #ColombiaSomosComoTu – Protection International presents two exhibitions at the #HRDWorldSummit 2018

01/11/2018 – Protection International presented two exhibitions at the Human Rights Defenders World Summit 2018 in Paris (29-31 October 2018). Two different projects, from two different continents, but both advocating for peace, justice, and the right to defend human rights.  WE’RE LIKE YOU  The invisible fighting for land and life We’re Like You is an artistic project […]

[Spanish] Collective protection of defenders of rights to land and territory in Colombia: indigenous communities as collective actors. The ACIN case

Collective protection of defenders of rights to land and territory in Colombia: indigenous communities as collective actors. The ACIN case is a joint publication by Protection International and Pensamiento y Acción Social (PAS) that tries to understand and analyse the collective ways in which the Nasa indigenous peoples think and protect themselves (Nasa indigenous people […]

Protection International, OIDHACO and 22 other civil society organisations call on the EU to pressure the Colombian state to protect MRVA

Brussels, 22 May 2018 The International Office for Human Rights – Acción Colombia (OIDHACO) and the signatory organizations wish to express their deep concern to the European Union, its Member States, Switzerland and Norway about the situation of the population affected by the Hidroituango project in Colombia and the Ríos Vivos Antioquia Movement (MRVA), made up […]

Protection International, OIDHACO and 22 other civil society organisations call on the EU to pressure the Colombian state to protect MRVA

Brussels, 22 May 2018 The International Office for Human Rights – Acción Colombia (OIDHACO) and the signatory organizations wish to express their deep concern to the European Union, its Member States, Switzerland, and Norway about the situation of the population affected by the Hidroituango project in Colombia and the Ríos Vivos Antioquia Movement (MRVA), made up […]

Protection International participates in the presentation of the IACHR report

Bogotá, 28 February 2018 – In the framework of the 167th special session of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) in Bogotá, Colombia, Protection International participated in a presentation at the launching event and round table convened by the IACHR. CEJIL, Pensamiento y Acción Social (PAS), the Fundación para la libertad de prensa (FLIP), […]

Collective protection of HRDs: defenders of the right to land and territory

Protection International, in collaboration with its Colombian partner Pensamiento y Acción Social (PAS), launches an innovative publication exploring broader approaches to the protection of human rights defenders, particularly those defending the right to land and territory: COLLECTIVE PROTECTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS OF THE RIGHT TO LAND AND TERRITORY – CONCEPTUAL DEVELOPMENTS AND METHODOLOGICAL CHALLENGES. […]

David Ravelo is freed after nearly seven years in prison

Colombian human rights defender David Ravelo Crespo left prison on 20th June 2017. As reported by Peace Brigades International (PBI), Ravelo was detained and incarcerated on 14th September 2010, accused of being the intellectual author of the 1991 murder of David Núñez Cala, a civil servant from Barrancabermeja. On 5th December 2012, the Specialised Criminal […]