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.
Akubadaura community of Lawyers presents the Short Documentary: “My body does not lie”, a video that, in 18 minutes, proposes a look at the factors that lead to the configuration of sexual violence against Indigenous women by armed groups and responsibility of the Government when the sex offenders are government officials. Diana Quigua, a researcher […]
Bogotá C.D. Colombia, July 3, 2020. Cases of sexual violence against girls and women, where perpetrators of the crime are members of the Colombian Armed Forces, have been growing. According to the Conflict Observatory, “between 2006-2016 a higher number of cases associated with the military was registered, with 90 acts of sexual violence”, and between […]
The continuous assassination of indigenous, peasant and Afro leaders; the precarious situation for the compliance of their fundamental rights, the negligible fulfillment of agreements by different governments are the expression of a Government and a society that refuses to accept its multi-ethnic and multicultural condition. By the end of June, four years would have passed […]
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