Join Rodeemos el Diálogo, the Transitional Justice Network of the University of Essex, the Centre on Conflict, Rights and Justice of SOAS, and MEMPAZ in an online dialogue to discuss some of the lessons drawn from reparations processes in Colombia and beyond.
In this dialogue, Laura Villa, member of the National Council of Reincorporation (CNR) will share the challenges that the FARC ex-combatants face amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. Additionally, we will hear the strategies developed in the former Territorial Spaces for Training and Reincorporation (ETCR) to prevent and mitigate its impact.
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Despite the 2016 peace agreement, hundreds of other activists; including environmental campaigners, women’s leaders and human rights defenders have been murdered in recent years. British trade unions have long supported Colombian civil society in its struggle for human rights, workers’ rights, peace and social justice.
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Bringing together contrasting narratives from a range of Colombian voices, Stardust tells the story of the chain of lives and deaths that turns a coca leaf, sacred to indigenous communities in Latin America, into a line of coke on a mirror in the western world.
The Colombian Truth Commission (Comisión de Esclarecimiento de la Verdad, Convivencia y No Repetición) was set up as part of the peace process between the Colombian Government and the FARC guerrilla in 2016. The Truth Commission seeks to uncover the truth surrounding human rights violations and abuses which were carried out during decades of internal conflict.
In this lecture Chief Prosecutor and head of the IAU Dr Giovani Alvarez will discuss progress of transitional justice in Colombia and challenges for the future.
The Special Jurisdiction for Peace (SJP) is the justice component of the Colombian Transitional Justice Mechanism created as part of the 2016 peace accord with the FARC-EP. The SJP seeks to held accountable all actors of the conflict for their role in during the armed conflict (1958-2016).
El número de personas desaparecidas en Colombia se estima que es de al menos tres veces mayor que el de la dictadura de Argentina, rodeando las 100.000 víctimas.
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