In the ongoing UN review of the situation for human rights in Colombia, ForumCiv and other Swedish civil society organizations operating in the country have put forward recommendations that Sweden...
In the second part of this story, we will discuss about the development of the Peasant Agro-environmental Fair and the public statement made by the peasant organizations of the piedmont to the Amazon...
A story about Andean-Amazonian peasants and their ways of caring for, protecting and restoring ecosystems. These stories are based on ForumCiv’s work with peasant organisations and particularly within...
Between confinement, displacement and extinction. This is a story of the Caquetá monkey and the peasant organization that protects it in the Colombian municipality of Piamonte, Cauca.
Maydany Salcedo, an environmental and human rights defender at ASIMTRACAMPIC, says she and her family are at serious risk.
During the UN environment conference Stockholm+50 in June, ForumCiv organized three seminars together with several other civil society organizations. In all the events, environmental defenders and...
The need to remember past atrocities to never let them be repeated again is something that is part of dealing with the pain and loss in many conflicts. Remembering in order not to repeat, to...
The year has come to a violent start in Colombia. The security situation has drastically deteriorated in several regions and so far, 13 leaders from social movements have been murdered. In Cauca, one...
This event is about the interactions between environment and peace from a community perspective and explores possibilities for international collaboration. Organizations from the Caquetá department in...
Bringin local voices to a global context, commemorating International Safe Abortion Day.
In this public statement, Diakonia, ForumCiv, Act Church of Sweden, We Effect and SweFOR, condemn the murder of Governor Sandra Liliana Peña Chocué of the La Laguna Siberia Indigenous Reservation...
As part of the ForumCiv project implementation team, the author of this chronicle shares her experience of travelling to the Miravalle ex-combatant settlement, in the region of El Pato, Caquetá.
En Octubre de 2020, la Oficina Regional para América Latina y el Caribe de ForumCiv desarrolló el foro virtual Sociedad Civil “Repensando los espacios cívicos”, como un espacio de diálogo e...
The signing of the 2016 peace agreement, between the Colombian government and the FARC guerilla, drew a formal end to one of the world’s longest internal conflicts. What happened next?
As lockdowns and restrictions on movement hit much of the world’s population in the second quarter of 2020, concern for women’s wellbeing was quickly raised. Crisis responses and contexts differ...
A chronicle about the Landscapes of Memory, a memory site created in a terrain where CONAVIGUA found buried bodies of disappeared people. Now it has become an important site of reparation...
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...
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