por Comunicaciones | Oct 21, 2015 | English reports
Yes, that is indeed how we wanted to call this edition of the half-yearly report, January to June 2015, of the We Are Defenders Program (Programa Somos Defensores). We decided on this name in memory of the writer Eduardo Galeano, but most of all, because of the...
por Comunicaciones | Mar 21, 2015 | English reports
Colombia began on the path to armed conflict for one fundamental reason: it has never been a state that guarantees human rights. Historically, its governing classes excluded the political participation of the sectors that refused to submit themselves to the two...
por Comunicaciones | Oct 21, 2014 | English reports
The first six months of 2014 reflected an important struggle for Colombia. It was a struggle between the continuation of the war and a politic al and negotiated solution to the armed conflict that has spilt blood for 50 years in the country. In this struggle, the social...
por Comunicaciones | Mar 21, 2014 | English reports
The year 2013 was one of paradoxes. The government continued peace negotiations with the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC) in Havana, Cuba; maintained its discourse promoting recognition of the victims of the armed conflict and the advances in the...