Ana Manuela Ochoa, a lawyer with the National Indigenous Organisation of Colombia (ONIC), speaks about the problem of forced displacement and how it affects indigenous people. "Large-scale development projects bring militarisation, which forces us to abandon our lands," she explains.
Washington, March 18, 2010
March 10th 2010
Oaxacan political activist Juan Manuel Martínez and his lawyer, Alba Cruz, have been threatened. Juan Manuel Martínez, who was recently released from prison, is in danger of being arrested and charged a second time with the same crime on the basis of the same evidence.
Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor
The manipulation of data and diagnoses that has taken place in Colombia in order to consolidate the “success of the strategy” is now catching on in countries such as Mexico who look to Colombia as an exemplary country.
This report looks at what is happening to coca and cocaine statistics in Colombia with the aim of raising a few questions on what the authorities present as the success of drug control in Colombia.
Greetings from PBI Mexico training team!
We are glad to inform you that the call for applications is open from march 1st to 31st. Next training will take place in Lisbon (Portugal) from june 26th to july 4th.
Find out more about the application process and volunteering in Spanish.