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By admin • December 4th, 2009

The Movement for Peace in Colombia invites you to a chatting session and cocktail with a group of human rights activists that are visiting Washington and New York. They are here to meet with members of international agencies such as the Organization of American States and the United Nations and to meet with US senators [...]

Bela Henriquez is a young human rights activist from the northern part of Colombia. She belongs to the organization Hijos e Hijas por la Memoria y contra la Impunidad (Sons and Daughters for Memory and against Impunity). Hijos e Hijas represents many young people whose parents have been assassinated in the Colombian conflict. [...]

This is a short video of “Hijos e Hijas por la memoria y contra la Impunidad”. It shows different testimonies of sons and daughters whose parents have been assassinated in the Colombian Conflict.

Democracy Now! is a daily TV/radio news program, hosted by Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez, airing on over 750 stations, pioneering the largest community media collaboration in the U.S. Democracy Now!’s War and Peace Report provides its audience with access to people and perspectives rarely heard in the U.S.corporate-sponsored media including grassroots leaders and peace [...]

Father Giraldo: Reply letter sent to the Colombian Attorney General´s office.
In my opinion, the name of the Jesuit Father Javier Giraldo ought to be recognized by Colombians the same way that Guatemalans recognize Rigoberta Manchú and Argentinians recognize Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, both Nobel Peace Prize winners from this Western Hemisphere, where the biggest humanitarian calamity [...]

After the MPC visited congresswoman Nita Lowey’s office on the the day of Prayer and Action, her assistants gave  members of the MPC a press release that expresses  her concern with Human Rights and the Displaced Populations in Colombia.  
You can read the press release here.
Rep Nita Lowey and Assistance to Colombia
Congresswoman Lowey remains deeply concerned [...]

On September 27, 2008, Pastor William Reyes of Maicao, La Guajira, disappeared in a rural Colombian road. The Pastor was a member of the Fraternity of Evangelical Ministers of Maicao –FRAMEM.  His family has been harassed and threatened for investigating the disappearance, and his 16 year old daughter barely escaped kidnapping, but not so a [...]

This video shows members of the MPC visiting the office of congresswoman Nita Lowey delivering the message about displacement in Colombia. It also shows volunteers working on this project, supporting Witness for Peace iniciative.
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Este video muestra a miembros del MPC visitando la oficina de la congresista Nita Lowey para lleverle un [...]