Through this line of action, we provide legal counsel and accompany ethnic peoples and government agencies in the search for peace.
Work strategies:
1. Provide analysis elements for the construction of peace.
2. We focus our actions on indigenous communities suffering from humanitarian crises as a consequence of the armed conflict.
3. Our organization is engrossed in providing permanent support to indigenous communities, by working with interdisciplinary groups to strengthen organizational capacities in the enforceability and implementation of the rights of indigenous peoples.
Video OpEd By Diana Jembuel Every October 12th, the arrival of the Christopher Columbus expedition to Abya Yala is commemorated. The wrong thing they called the day of the race. October 12 marks the beginning of the greatest genocide committed against the peoples of an entire continent. In this video column, Diana Jemuel, Secretary General […]
With an analysis of four national cases of prior consent processes with indigenous peoples that were accompanied by Akubadaura, the Law Collective releases its report in which it analyzes the Free, Prior and Informed Consent -FPIC- in Colombia (CPLI for its acronym in spanish), emphasizing on its scopes, historical evolution, including an interpretation of the […]
In its latest report, Akubadaura analyzes the historical evolution, legal development, and implementation of the right to Free, Prior and Informed Consent in Colombia (FPIC). In the report, Akubadaura argues that the legal understanding of FPIC contains deep conflicts between the norms and the legal decisions. For example, the latter does not respect other fundamental […]
On the occasion of the Release of Akubadaura’s Report on Prior Consent, in collaboration with Columbia University an exercise of knowledge exchange was held. Here is an interview with two of the researchers at the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment. Columbia Law School – The Earth Institute, Columbia University Q: What do you see as […]
To us, as indigenous peoples, the word “MINGA” means dialogue, harmony, balance, complementarity, responsibility, solidarity and reciprocity. Minga is a community gathering to work as a family, where the life and culture of indigenous peoples are recreated. Implies good living, and the search for common good. Given the number of deaths (47) and alleged disappearances […]