“Less-lethal Weapons”: How U.S. Companies Make Millions From Colombia’s State Repression
By Samantha Wherry The death of 18-year-old high school student, Dilan Cruz, at the hands of Colombia’s riot police on November 25th...
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Dec 13, 20194 min read
U.S Continues to Fund Forced Eradication as Small-scale Farmers Face New Wave of Assassinations
To date, 53 members of COCCAM have been murdered with each member of the national body threatened individually and collectively.
Dec 10, 20193 min read
Impunity for Intellectual Authors Means No Justice for Berta Cáceres
Still no justice for Berta as seven material authors receive sentencing for her murder
Aug 6, 20196 min read
No Peace in Sight: Indigenous Colombians Face Growing Levels of Forced Displacement
By Samantha Wherry and Evan King When traveling on a boat to Pichima Quebrada, a small Wounaan indigenous community located along the...
Oct 8, 20183 min read
Urgent Action: Return of Aerial Fumigation with Glyphosate
“Aerial fumigation with glyphosate is an attack on Mother Nature and an attack on our food sovereignty” – AINI Women’s Association...
Sep 11, 20185 min read
Como EEUU creó su propia crisis de migrantes
por Carlissa Arrow El Rio Naya Durante décadas, Estados Unidos ha estado experimentando una crisis humanitaria en la frontera entre...
May 15, 201814 min read
La Lucha Es Constante: Updates from Pajuiles
Members of the COBRAS, armed with riot gear and tear gas, stand guard outside the encampment at Pajuiles, May 3, 2018. The banner above...
Apr 13, 20185 min read
Jailed Before He Was Born
Albertina López Melgar, a member of the Broad Movement for Dignity and Justice (MADJ, for its initials in Spanish) has emerged in the...
Jan 26, 20185 min read
La Cara de la Impunidad
Las fuerzas de seguridad hondureña acosan y asesinan a manifestantes mientras EEUU sigue sin tomar acción. El 22 de enero, Acción...
Jan 22, 20185 min read
Statement on Honduran military and police attack on MADJ/Declaración sobre el ataque del MADJ por el
Español abajo. Witness for Peace condemns the threats and violence against Martin Fernández and the Movimiento Amplio that occurred the...
Jun 23, 201713 min read
The Berta Cáceres Case in Context: The Campaign Against Human Rights Defenders, Journalists, Indigen
The assassination of Berta Cáceres has, for good reason, become an emblematic case in the conversation around human rights abuses in...
May 9, 20171 min read
Help protect Mexican human rights defenders
Witness for Peace is extremely concerned about the safety of Oaxacan human rights defenders Rodrigo Flores Peñaloza and Bettina Cruz...
Mar 3, 20170 min read
Feb 4, 20165 min read
15 años después: El “gran éxito” del Plan Colombia
Por Lisa Taylor, Acción Permanente por la Paz Colombia Este artículo aparece en inglés en el periódico en línea Upside Down World. Este 4...
Sep 14, 201511 min read
Human Trafficking: not an isolated phenomenon
by Sue Davis (WFP Mexico Program delegate) “If you promise a girl heaven, you can take her to hell.” (Quote from a human trafficker...
Aug 3, 20154 min read
Children of the Monroe Doctrine: The Militarized Roots of America’s Border Calamity
by Arturo J. Viscarra and Michael Prentice “[I]n the Western Hemisphere the adherence of the United States to the Monroe Doctrine may...
Sep 8, 20143 min read
“Security” in Mexico doesn’t apply to many human rights defenders
Felipe Calderón, president of Mexico from 2006 to 2012, had a way of talking that sounded a bit like George W. Bush, which is to say...
Nov 30, 20125 min read
December 1: Mexican Presidential Power Transitions from one Human Rights Violator to the Next
by Carlin Christy, Mexico Team This December 1st, it might have been possible for Mexicans to breathe a collective sigh of relief. The...
Aug 23, 20125 min read
Nimbyism and Colombia’s “Socially Responsible” Mine, Cerrejón
By Jeanine Legato WfP Colombia Southeastern Massachusetts, where I am from, was deeply embroiled in a nimby (Not-In- My- Backyard) ...
Aug 13, 201211 min read
Labor Action Plan Monitoring Report
This is a Labor Action Plan Monitoring report done by Witness for Peace delegates and International Team this past July. It includes the...
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