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A changing vision on drugs: Colombia

Taken from: http://www.globalrights.info From 19 to 21 April 2016, the United Nations hosted in New York a special session of the General Assembly on Drugs (UNGASS).

We are not ‘cooperating’; we are making peace

Regarding an article published in The Guardian, called “Colombia peace deal with Farc is hailed as a new model for ending conflicts” written by Ed Vulliamy, I

Economic co-optation of the insurgency

There is a global trend by the dominant system of categorizing insurgent movements as criminal business networks, depriving them of their revolutionary essence.

Impunity

Starting in the Netherlands … In July 1995, during the war in Yugoslavia, a group of approximately 400 Dutch peacekeepers grouped in a battalion called

Part III: Killing the dominant male

PKK, the Workers Party of Kurdistan: many people know their name, but few really know what their struggle is about. I had the opportunity to

El Cesar: One stain among many

On November 24 and 25, Dutch Minister Ploumen of foreign trade and Development visited Colombia, where she led a trade mission comprising energy companies, a

This is just the beginning

On September 7, the FARC-EP and the National Government officially installed the gender sub-committee of the peace talks, “to guarantee a gender perspective in the

FARC-EP is and always has been a political organization

Taken from: www.colombiareports.co Contrary to claims, the FARC-EP is a political organization. Especially for our opponents, this is important to recognize because it’s the denial of