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Dec 24, 20193 min read
The Fight for Justice Continues: Daira Quiñones Returns to La Nupa
Daira recalls her beloved village of La Nupa as a tight-knit Afro-Colombian community where people once moved freely and sang and danced...
Dec 20, 20192 min read
Paramilitaries Take Over Nueva Vida Humanitarian Zone
During the early morning hours on December 18th, residents of Cacarica witnessed the strengthening of the Gaitanista Self-defense Forces...
Dec 18, 20193 min read
“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...
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...
Sep 26, 20184 min read
Statement in Solidarity with MADJ in light of recent defamation campaigns/Declaración en solidaridad
(español abajo) Witness for Peace reiterates wholeheartedly our solidarity with the Broad Movement for Dignity and Justice (MADJ in...
May 22, 20183 min read
Comunidades Afrocolombianas del Río Naya Defienden sus Vidas y sus Tierras
La mañana del sábado el 19 de mayo amaneció clara y calurosa en Puerto Merizalde, el lugar más poblado del Río Naya, cerca a la costa...
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...
Dec 18, 20173 min read
Carta abierta al Congreso de EEUU y el Departamento de Estado de EEUU sobre las elecciones presidenc
Una carta abierta al Congreso de los EEUU y al Departamento de Estado de EEUU: Como organizaciones de derechos humanos, organizaciones de...
Dec 18, 20173 min read
Open Letter to the US Congress and State Department in the Wake of the Honduran presidential electio
Please join Grassroots International, Witness for Peace and other US-based solidarity organizations in signing this important letter...
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...
Apr 20, 20172 min read
Witness for Peace Condemns the Attack of Union Organizers in Choluteca, Honduras
Witness for Peace Condemns the Attack of Union Organizers in Choluteca On April 15th, Moisés Sánchez and his brother, Misael, were...
Dec 21, 20155 min read
In Honduras, Attempted Murder Against an Indigenous Youth is Worth 30 to 90 Days in Jail
In Honduras, Attempted Murder Against an Indigenous Youth is Worth 30 to 90 Days in Jail By Gloria Jiménez and Bryan Rogers On July 15,...
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...
Nov 15, 20125 min read
Election Blog Series – Drug Policy Reform at Home and Abroad
WFP Colombia Team With the end of the U.S. presidential election, political commentators have begun predicting what the differences and...
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