There have been eight governments since the taking and retaking of the Palace of Justice in Colombia. All possible doors to justice have been tried but the perpetrators are still at large. And yet, the stigmatisation continues, and the families remain in a permanent state of internal mourning.
Human Rights
Colombia: both victim and spectator of its own violence
In three decades, 450,664 people were killed and 7,752,964 were victims of forced displacement as a result of the armed conflict. Massacres, disappearances, kidnappings, rape and land dispossession were perpetrated by paramilitaries, guerrillas and members of the armed forces, among others. The state is also to blame. The Truth Commission has documented this reality.
Maria Roxo: from sex-work to film-directing
A sex-worker and a first-time director began making a film which would transform their lives. One from a profession that is often viewed with disgust or through the rosy lens of exoticism, and the other a high-status intellectual role in a liberal society. Maria died before the film was completed. After her death, Renata spent months alone to come to terms with what they had done.
International concern over violation of indigenous rights
A UK and Irish parliamentary delegation travelled to Colombia to a place inhabited by indigenous Wayuu and Afro-Colombian communities whose rights are being negatively impacted by the work of a mining company. UK and Irish Delegation of members of the UK Parliament and the Irish Dail, Brendan O’Hara MP, […]
Palestine is here, and Palestine is us
I wonder what effects the facts in Palestina have on our lives. The Gaza Strip is more than 3500 kilometres away from London (and over 12000 kilometres away from the Latin American region, where I am from), and still, the shocking facts cannot be ignored. Mabel Encinas Palestinian […]
















