The Colombia Human Rights Bulletin provides links to documents written by WOLA and organizations we partner with in Colombia on human rights, labor rights, and Afro-Colombian and indigenous issues.

US-Colombia Free Trade Agreement (FTA)

• Over 400 U.S. and Colombia Groups and Individuals ask U.S. Congress to Oppose Colombia FTA
• Members of Congress Urge President Obama to Protect Afro-Colombians before Moving Ahead with Colombia FTA
• A U.S.-Colombia trade pact would not address, and might even reward, paramilitary violence
• Colombian Labor Rights Lawyer in Critical Condition after Assassination Attempt
• Human Rights or Free Trade: Strategies for an Alternative Trade Policy (only available in Spanish)

Afro-Colombian and Indigenous Issues

• Take Action to Protect Afro-Colombian Activists, Religious Leaders and Trade Unionists, ACSN
• Report on the Humanitarian Crisis and Violation of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples for the International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples, ONIC (Only in Spanish)
• International mission verifies illegal mining in La Toma, ACSN
• Cauca’s Nasa Indigenous People Caught in the Crossfire, WOLA
• Indigenous communities peacefully remove illegal miners from their collective territory in northern Cauca, ACIN
• Statement by Afro-Colombian and indigenous organizations on prior consultation, CNOA and ONIC
• New Abuses of Afro-Colombians’ Legal Rights under Santos Administration, ACSN
• Afro-Colombian organizations response to the Victims Law decree for Afro-Colombian Victims, Council of Afro-Colombian Organizations
• Human rights community outraged by murder of Afro-Colombian Displaced Leader, ACSN
• Two indigenous leaders murdered in one week in northeastern Colombia, ONIC
• Ongoing Human Rights Abuses in Colombia, ACSN
• Take Action to Stop Violence and Abuses in Colombia, ACSN
• Legal Victories for Ethnic Rights Clouded by Reality, ACSN
• FARC guerillas massacre five Afro-Colombians, ACSN
• Murders and Displacement of Afro-Colombian Community in Timbiqui, Cauca, ACSN

Human Rights and Security Issues

• Colombian Human Rights Defenders Continue to Endure Threats, Attacks, Harassment and Illegal Surveillance under Santos Government
• Tackling Urban Violence in Latin America: Reversing Exclusion through Smart Policing and Social Investment
• In La Macarena, Colombia, a program on “autopilot”
• Little Progress in Troubled Tumaco, Colombia

Press Items

• Police state continuity in Colombia: Policies of the intelligence agency are continuing unabated, despite the prosecution and dismissal of a number of officials, Doha Centre for Media Freedom
• Critics Call Trade Pact Lose-Lose Deal for Colombian Labour, IPS News
• Interview with WOLA on Contagio Radio (Only available in Spanish)

Recommended Videos on Colombia

• U.S. Office on Colombia: Impact of the FTA on Colombian small-scale farmers and workers; civil society; and Afro-Colombian and indigenous communities.
• Colombia’s Gold Rush on Al Jazeera’s Fault Lines
• Bearers of Hope: PBI video on risks and challenges for human rights lawyers in Colombia
• ACIN: Toribio - Cauca: We are not part of the war (Only in Spanish)
• Rep Schakowsky Speaks Out Against the Colombia Free Trade Agreement
• Rep. Jim McGovern: Demand human & labor rights in Colombia
• Rep. George Miller decries Colombia trade agreement on House floor
• Rep. Linda Sanchez Colombia Floor Speech
• United States has not ratified the FTA with Colombia (Only in Spanish)

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