Colombia Peace Process

Colombia: New agrarian courts raise hopes for end to land conflicts

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: 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.