Christian Aid and its partners have been working to tackle violence and build peace in Colombia for more than two decades. Three years ago, shortly after the government of Colombia signed a Peace Agreement with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), Christian Aid’s Research, Evidence and Learning team began to design Ten Years,...
In a follow-up to his article about social media and democracy, Robert Eveson reports on the work of Colombian NGO Fundación Karimsma to improve the internet safety of women and other minority groups.
A Machitroll is a species found online that is characterised by the ferocious desire to...
Christian Aid and its partners have been working to tackle
violence and build peace in Colombia for more than two decades. Three years
ago, shortly after the government of Colombia signed a Peace Agreement with the
Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), Christian Aid’s Research,
Evidence and Learning team began to design Ten Years, a long-term study of
change.
The 8th March is celebrated as International Women’s Day. However, in
Guatemala for the past three years, the day has been a painful reminder of the
long road towards gender equity, and the potentially lethal consequences of continuing
misogynistic and violent attitudes towards women.
On this day three years ago, 41 girls and young women...
The reality confronting migrants who manage to cross the Rio Bravo, in pursuit of the famous American dream, but finding themselves, instead, engulfed in an inhuman nightmare.
"I'm here to stay I don't want your hate I came to work Not to steal... I came to stay"
Dramatic and...
Banner image, above. From the website of the Ministry of Justice and Institutional Transparency: "Investigations will proceed into 592 former government officials and their relatives to recover deposits made abroad."
Some weeks ago nobody would have imagined that the Bolivian Prosecution Service would issue an arrest warrant against...
On 20 November, a
group of four women known as Las Tesis from Valparaíso, Chile, unknowingly
started what would become an international phenomenon in the global struggle
against sexism and gender-based violence: they performed the anti-machista
anthem and routine ‘Un Violador en tu Camino’ for the first time.
The group hoped that the song would spread feminist theory
in...
Colombia is once again at the of international news stories, with the announcement of a return to arms by some former leaders of the main guerrilla group, the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC). The peace agreement, signed in 2016, is at risk. Why has this happened? Here, we share the views and experiences of AfroColombian and...
In Colombia, a new voluntary crop substitution programme was designed with participation of many of the small-scale coca producers themselves. This was a key component of the Peace Agreement signed between the former Government and the now demobilized insurgent group, FARC-EP. Although the new Government of President Ivan Duque is largely failing to comply with its part...
LAB was present at Wales’ own Latin America Festival, called El Sueño Existe, held in Machynlleth every other year since 2001. We had a lively session on our latest books, Amazon Besieged and Voices of Latin America; LAB author Louise Morris took part in the discussion workshop on Reproductive Rights in Latin...