Colombia Solidarity Campaign is affiliated to the European Network of Friendship and Solidarity with Colombia, which has eleven affiliates in Spain and ten from other countries.
Welcome to the Colombia Solidarity Campaign
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Our UK based organisation campaigns for a socially just and sustainable
peace in Colombia and opposes foreign military intervention.
Media Talk: Is This the End for FARC?
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Thu 10th July, 7.30pm
Malcolm Deas (Oxford University) Andy Higginbottom (Colombia
Solidarity Campaign) Hernando Alvarez (Colombian
journalist and BBC Latin American Service) Alice O'Keefe (New Statesman) Isabel Hilton (journalist)
The pre-recorded talk is viewable online here:
Will the release of Ingrid Bettancourt - arguably the
world's most famous hostage, and FARC's main bargaining chip - along with 14
other hostages - mean the end of FARC and the beginning of serious peace
negotiations with the Colombian government?
For further details about the event click here
Colombian Journey - the "War on Drugs"
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The helicopter swooped by a couple hundred
yards away, just above the trees, as we were traveling to the community of
Malvinas on June 12. We stopped at a house alongside the road and heard
more helicopters. We then saw the two planes that were spraying herbicide
in the U.S.-financed “war on drugs.”
BLACK EAGLE DEATH THREATS IN SANTANDER – DOUBLE EMERGENCY
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Please respond
to these two Urgent Actions concerning paramilitary death threats against trade
unionists and social activists in Bucaramanga and
Barrancabermeja – two cities in Santander.
URGENT UPDATE TO THE NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY
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The
Organization Wayúu Munusurat is a group that has been working
for the defence of the human rights of displaced peoples and the
victims of paramilitary groups operating in La Guajira, Colombia with
the accompaniment of national and international organizations.
With this
communiqué we want to update everyone of the grave situation
that members of our organization are facing including death threats,
hostilities, persecution and pressure on behalf of the Northern Bloc
of the Autodefence group (paramilitaries) of the Counter Wayúu
Insurgency who have not demobilized and continue to operating within
our territories.
Latin America is in a crucial stage of transition. Right now, history
is unfolding before our eyes with dynamic movements changing the face
of the continent. The Bristol Latin American Forum, which is now in its
third consecutive year, invites you to explore these current issues in
a stimulating political and cultural event
The forum will be webcast live from here on Saturday between about 11am and 6pm
On 12 February a brown envelope was left outside the home of José Domingo Florez in Bucaramanga, north of Colombia. It contained the following death threat against Coca-Cola workers and leaders of SINALTRAINAL trade union:
A Humanitarian Agreement is Urgently Needed to Respect Life and Dignity
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Statement on 4 Feb Demonstrations
against the FARC from the Colombia Solidarity Campaign.
Social movements warn that 4
February demonstrations will polarise Colombia and “prolong the
internal war in our country, and close off the possibility that the
actors involved will humanise the armed conflict”.
