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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