Colombian Social Leaders : All

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Tanya Wadhwa
Colombia Witnesses One of the Bloodiest Weekends of the Year
18 Nov 2020
This weekend, between November 13 & 15, twelve Colombians including two minors were assassinated by illegal paramilitary groups and national security officials
Peoples Dispatch
Colombia Witnesses Massive National Strike
23 Oct 2020
Movements in Colombia have demanded that President Ivan Duque respond immediately to the serious situations faced by the citizens of the country
Tanya Wadhwa
Thousands Take the Streets in National Strike in Colombia
23 Sep 2020
The nationwide protest was carried out in rejection police brutality, economic crisis, massacres and the indifference of the national government towards them.
Peoples Dispatch
A Wave of Massacres Shakes Colombia
25 Aug 2020
At least 20 people have been assassinated in 4 massacres in the past 4 days, while President Iván Duque has termed the massacres “collective homicides”.
Zoe PC
Two Years of Duque’s Colombia: Deepening Neoliberalism, Increased Violence and a Public Health Crisis
12 Aug 2020
Colombian social leader Milena Ochoa analyses the past two years of Iván Duque’s government and explains how its functioning has been completely in favor of big business, landowners, paramilitaries…
Peoples Dispatch
Colombian Social Leaders Walked 15 Days and 600 km to Demand the Right to Life
11 Jul 2020
A group of social activists and human rights defenders have been marching from the southwestern Colombia for the past 15 days to demand respect for the life, territory and human rights of minority…
Tanya Wadhwa
Indignation in Colombia Amid Spree of Assassinations and the Rape of an Indigenous Girl by Soldiers
01 Jul 2020
The wave of assassinations and acts of sexual violence carried out by security forces and paramilitary groups against Colombian civilians in the past week has shaken the country.
Tanya Wadhwa
Assassination of Social Activists Continues in Colombia Despite Lockdown
04 Jun 2020
According to the Institute of Development and Peace Studies (INDEPAZ), 115 environmentalists, human rights defenders, Indigenous, peasant and social leaders, and more than 20 former combatants of the…
Peoples Dispatch
Colombian National Strike Committee Issues Call to Renew Anti-Government Protests
15 Feb 2020
A popular uprising against the far-right Ivan Duque government began last year opposing the rise in assassinations of social leaders and the neoliberal economic measures.
Peoples Dispatch
Six Social Leaders Assassinated in Past Week in Colombia
27 Dec 2019
The genocide against Colombia’s social leaders, human rights defenders and ex-combatants continues as six of them were violently assassinated in the past one week.