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Colombia s High Commissioner for Peace, Danilo Rueda, and representatives of dissident Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces (FARC) guerrillas have met during the weekend to discuss possible talks, according to a statement released on Saturday. ....
Fr. Pio Wacussanga, a parish priest working in Angola’s arid southern region, highlights the plight of the people in the face of the country’s worst . ....
Photo: Courtesy JEP An estuary that empties in the bay of Buenaventura, along Colombia’s Pacific coast, sets a legal precedent for the country after the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) opened precautionary measures for a location where the remains of disappeared persons are allegedly buried. The decision to give protection status to the San Antonio Estuary, while the tribunal gathers evidence from families as well as human rights organizations, could potentially open the flood gates for other waterways, including reservoirs and hydro-electric dams, to be classified as “crime scenes” given atrocities committed by the country’s illegal armed groups during more than a half-century of internal conflict. ....
Five social leaders get assassinated every week in Colombia Five social leaders get assassinated every week in Colombia Bogota, Apr 5 (Prensa Latina) Five social leaders, former members of Colombia s Revolutionary Armed Forces (FARC) had been assassinated weekly from November 1, 2016 to June 30, 2020, notes a report released here on Monday. In that period, 944 murders of people linked to those sectors (including human rights defenders) had been reported, the Forjando Futuros Foundation, the Inter-Church Commission for Justice and Peace, the Somos Defensores program, the Institute of Studies for Development and Peace and the Colombian Commission of Jurists reveal in the text. There are three patterns related to the crimes: systematization, stigmatization and impunity set out the non-governmental organizations (NGOs), while summarizing the 66 sentences pronounced on those guilty - only seven percent out of all registered cases - for which they criticized the work o ....