March 06 / 2020 On February 3rd, the International Coalition of Sites of Conscience (ICSC) announced they were suspending the membership of the Colombia’s National Centre of Historical Memory (CNMH), the main entity in charge of the preservation and construction of historical memory about the armed conflict in Colombia. Elizabeth Silkes, the head of the […]
March 04 / 2020 Embrace Dialogue is conscious of the crucial role the US government has played in the Colombian peace process. We celebrate the support the US has contributed to help mitigate the humanitarian crisis of Venezuelan migrants fleeing to Colombia, and call on other countries to complement this support. We note with concern, […]
February 04 / 2020 Since December 2016, 185 FARC-EP ex-combatants have been killed and 29 assassination attempts have occurred. In January 2020 alone, five murders and two assassination attempts were reported. The alarming levels of insecurity around Ituango’s Reincorporation Zone in Antioquia have led 60 FARC ex-combatants and their families to take the decision to […]
January 29 / 2020 Embrace Dialogue praises the decision by Colombia’s President of the Senate to approve the 16 congressional seats for the regions most affected by the armed conflict. This decision strengthens democracy, acknowledges the victims of the conflict, and honours the constitutional mandate to fulfill the Peace Agreement, but only if the electoral […]
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