Embeddable, 3-minute-minimum videos about peace, security, and human rights in Colombia
Publicado por la Comisión de la Verdad el 29 de julio de 2020.
A discussion of the Colombian government’s security crackdown during the 1978-1982 government of President Julio César Turbay.
Publicado por Semana el 28 de julio de 2020.
A former guerrilla recounts the FARC’s history of recruiting minors.
Publicado por Semana el 28 de julio de 2020.
Examines the alleged responsibility of ex-president Álvaro Uribe and the armed forces for serious human rights abuses in Antioquia.
Publicado por la Comisión Colombiana de Juristas el 24 de julio de 2020.
The human rights group’s longtime director discusses risks to human rights, civil liberties, and peace accord implementation during the government’s response to COVID-19.
Publicado por Semana el 24 de julio de 2020.
Vice-President Marta Lucía Ramírez gives an update about military cooperation with investigations into allegations of sexual abuse by soldiers.
Publicado por la Comisión de la Verdad el 23 de julio de 2020.
A discussion with social leaders from Colombia’s Pacific coast region.
Publicado por Semana el 23 de julio de 2020.
Maximum FARC party leader Rodrigo Londoño talks about transitional justice and the FARC’s past human rights crimes, including forced child recruitment, which the guerrillas are denying took place.
Publicado por Semana el 23 de julio de 2020.
Rep. Jim McGovern (D-Massachusetts) joins a panel to discuss human rights and U.S. military assistance to Colombia.
Publicado por Rodeemos el Diálogo el 22 de julio de 2020.
A discussion with a leader of a community from the Montes de María that suffered a major paramilitary massacre in 2000.
Publicado por Semana el 22 de julio de 2020.
A narco-criminal organization has taken control of politics and corruption in La Guajira, one of Colombia’s poorest departments.
Publicado por Semana el 21 de julio de 2020.
An interview with social leader Luis Ernesto Olave from Chocó department’s Bajo Baudó region, which is suffering intense combat between the ELN and the Gulf Clan.
Published by Omar Vásquez and Melissa de la Hoz on July 20, 2020.
This 2014 Simón Bolívar prize documentary, now shared on YouTube, features the struggle for justice of relatives of military “false positives” victims. (Versión en español)
Publicado por Rodeemos el Diálogo el 18 de julio de 2020.
A discussion of the challenges facing women victims’ activism with Claudia Quintero, director of the Corporación Anne Frank.
Published by Semana on July 18, 2020.
Mostly non-Latin American migrants pass through Colombia and then on to the very dangerous Darién Gap of Panama.
Publicado por Semana el 16 de julio de 2020.
The Nukak Makú people of Guaviare, who were first contacted in the 1980s, have been hit hard by the armed conflict, including a recent case of sexual abuse by soldiers.
Publicado por la Fundación Paz y Reconciliación el 10 de julio de 2020.
A discussion of mounting allegations of sexual violence committed by military personnel.
Publicado por El Tiempo el 10 de julio de 2020.
Gen. Jaime Lasprilla, a former commander of Colombia’s army, denies that a recent spate of cases of sexual violence represents a systematic problem within the armed forces.
Publicado por la Comisión Colombiana de Juristas el 9 de julio de 2020.
Presentation of a report about paramilitary massacres in the Montes de María region in 2000 and 2001, and the military’s role.
Publicado por la Comisión de la Verdad el 9 de julio de 2020.
A discussion of land tenure and the campesino movement.
Publicado por El Tiempo el 9 de julio de 2020.
Nancy Patricia Gutiérrez, the Colombian Presidency’s advisor for human rights, gives a presentation about killings of social leaders.
Publicado por Semana el 9 de julio de 2020.
Another allegation of military sexual abuse, this time involving marines in Putumayo.
Publicado por El Espectador Colombia 2020 el 8 de julio de 2020.
A discussion of non-repetition of the conflict, hosted by the Truth Commission.
Publicado por Semana el 6 de julio de 2020.
One of several allegations of recent military sexual abuse, in this case of an indigenous girl in Risaralda.
Publicado por la Fundación Paz y Reconciliación el 3 de julio de 2020.
A conversation with northern Cauca social leader Hector Marino Carabalí.
Publicado por Semana el 3 de julio de 2020.
Colombia’s Army announces the firing of 31 soldiers alleged to have been involved in sexual abuse of minors.
