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30 Colombian Communities March for Justice

Sarah Gross April 4, 2013 2

This Saturday, April 6, approximately 1,000 campesinos from the Montes de Maria region of Colombia will be taking nonviolent direct action to demand holistic reparations as victims of the decades-long disastrous armed conflict. They will be walking 80 miles from El Carmen de Bolivar to the city of Cartagena. According to Anna Vogt, a Mennonite…

Internal Displacement in Colombia

jacobkanagy March 7, 2012 0

In December 2011 the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) produced a report on the Colombian government’s efforts to protect and assist the more than 5 million internally displaced persons (IDPs). The report looked specifically at the Santos administration’s lack of tangible action for improving the human rights conditions for IDPs. The IDMC reports, “Colombia’s government,…