The first five agrarian courts will open in May in the cities of Cartagena, Quibdó, Popayán, Pasto and Tunja, with 65 more to come. Peasant farmers, or campesinos, have long struggled for recognition by the state. Another effort by President Petro to resolve the unequal land divide is a promise to redistribute more than 3 million hectares (7.4 million acres) of land.
Colombia Peace Process
Colombian government and ELN guerrilla group agree on bilateral ceasefire
On Friday June 9, 2023, the Colombian government and the National Liberation Army (ELN) announced a cease-fire agreement bilaterally as well as the calling to society for participating in the peace process.
“Acknowledgment of peasants as a political subject of rights is a historical debt from the Colombian Polity”
In Colombia there is a historical debt to the peasants’ collective. They have suffered the consequences of implementing a dispossession model which has favored a small number of people who concentrate the ownership of land and wealth.
Colombia: Declaration of Humanitarian Crisis in the Pacific Coast of the Cauca and Chocó Valley
In Colombia indigenous organizations and the black communities and Community Councils connected to the El Kongal Regional Platform declare a state of humanitarian emergency due to the escalation and worsening of the armed conflict in their ancestral territories, which is leading to the physical, cultural, and spiritual extinction, destroying their identity, sovereignty, and dignity.
Colombia: La Via Campesina’s International Solidarity Mission expresses hope, praises the political will to achieve peace.
An international delegation of La Via Campesina (LVC), the international peasant movement accompanying the implementation process of the Peace Agreement in Colombia expresses its satisfaction and hope, and praises the political will of the current Colombian government to implement the agreement.
La Via Campesina supports the creation of an agrarian jurisdiction in Colombia
As an international peasant movement, we recognize the importance of agrarian justice measures that guarantee the transition and express our full support for the creation of an Agrarian Final Court.
Colombia supports the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas (UNDROP)
Through a diplomatic note sent to the General Secretary of the United Nations, the Colombian State expresses its decision to support and implement the United Nations Declaration of Peasants Rights.
Bulletin Alto al fuego n°7 : Follow-up of the Peace Accords in Colombia
La Via Campesina shares this newsletter to inform about the implementation and construction process of… Read more →
CLOC Statement | Agrarian Reform in Colombia
“I am still behind my people. We have resolved to stop running away and decided… Read more →
Colombia: Constitutional Court says Public Land Cannot Be Appropriated Due to Domain Prescription
On August 18, the Constitutional Court issued the statement of Judgment SU-288 of 2022, which… Read more →