Peace Brigades International – UK Section (PBI UK)
PBI sends teams of international volunteers to areas of conflict at the request of local human rights defenders who are threatened because of their legitimate, nonviolent, human rights activities.
ABColombia
ABColombia is the advocacy project of a group of five leading UK and Irish organisations with programmes in Colombia: CAFOD, Christian Aid UKI, Oxfam GB, SCIAF and Trócaire.
COLOMBIA: THE CONSEQUENCES OF AN UNSUSTAINABLE MINING POLICY
A new report from UK-based ABCColombia examines the confusion of government policies, social protests and asks how to increase international accountability
COLOMBIA: THE CITY OF LONDON’S ROLE IN THE BLOODY CIVIL WAR
UK companies and banks are some of the leading investors in Colombia, much of the money going to extractive projects and the means of securing them.
COLOMBIA: COMMUNITIES MUST DECIDE
Key to avoiding conflict around mining is genuine and informed consultation with local communities
The Putumayo Atrocities
The story of the near-extermination of indigenous communities in the early 1900s at the hands of the Peruvian Amazon Company.
BOGOTA AND LIMA: GREENING OUR CITIES
Enrique Peñalosa, the former mayor of Bogotá stresses in this video interview the importance of public transport and green space for cities such as Bogotá and Lima.
Colombia: Poverty falls but the gaps widen
Between 2002 and 2010 poverty fell in Colombia, though less than in other Latin American countries. But the gaps, especially between the main urban centres and rural areas, widened.
Colombia: Can peace negotiators address root causes?
To understand negotiations you have to ask ‘Who are the negotiators?’
COLOMBIA: GOOD PROSPECTS FOR PEACE TALKS
A new report from the International Crisis Group says that the forthcoming talks between the Colombian government and the FARC insurgents have a good chance of success.