Despite the 2016 peace agreement, Colombia remains the deadliest country for human rights defenders. Today, the concern on the impacts of Covid-19 is eclipsed by another virulent phenomena, making...
On Thursday 6th August 2020, ForumCiv will be delivering the second version of Glocal Voices, an international webinar where we bring local voices to a global context, with the purpose of promoting...
Colombia is the world’s deadliest country for human rights defenders. How has the corona pandemic affected this situation? What can Sweden do to address the threats and violence towards people who are...
In this article, Hub Latin America & Caribbean Country Programme Coordinator César Augusto Muñoz M. shares some reflections in relation to the current events in Colombia, where the health emergency...
Luz Perly Córdoba, the peasant leader who died the third of February in a car accident in Arauca, left hundreds of memories of her peasant work. These are the memories of her legacy of love and...
Young people in Colombia are struggling with high levels of unemployment, violence, and difficulties to get their voices heard. Despite this, many of them believe in local engagement and education as...
The national strike that started one week ago (November 21) was called by labour unions after a couple of months of rumours about reforms and pension cuts, but has been growing for more than a week...
The Brazilian CSO ECAM (Equipe da Conservação da Amazônia) jointly with the Swedish CSO Regnskogsforeningen and the support of Forum Syd, and together with other stakeholders that participate in the...
In order to enable a space for global joint learning, forging of new partnerships and co-creation, the course, coordinated by SIDA, will be digitally streamed and facilitated at three international...
One of the alternatives that Colombian civil society in rural areas has been building and promoting for more than two decades is the Peasant Reserve Zone.
Women’s rights are human rights! Unfortunately the obvious statement is far from reality. Still in 2019 women face systematic discrimination of their rights and liberties every day in every country.
For Colombia, 2019 starts as a year with a challenging situation, where peace building and the evolving of civic space towards the contribution to build a just and sustainable world, are at stake.
The Erley Monroy Peasant School is becoming a valuable instrument to qualify and increase the legitimacy of the peasant reserve zones as a useful territorial development model for peacebuilding in...
Civil Society organisation work with several strategies to deal and overcome the adversities.
As part of Vattenfalls inspections on the impacts of coal mining, the government-owned Swedish power company Vattenfall visited several communities at Guajira that have been directly affected by the...
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