|
||||||
Our actions >Photos
10/28/2005 : "Uribe refuses to recognise there is a war in Colombia"
Interview with Melanie Delloye, daughter of Ingrid Betancourt. With members of her family Melanie has been actively campaigning for 44 months for freedom for her mother and for all hostages held by FARC.
10/26/2005 : Chirac determined to see Betancourt freed
President Jacques Chirac said France was determined to secure the release of kidnapped Colombian-French politician Ingrid Betancourt, as artists and celebrities held a concert in her honor Monday.
10/25/2005 : Evening of Support for Ingrid Betancourt
Singers, academics or former Iraqi-held hostages are due to come together, this evening, in support of the French Colombian held hostage for 44 months by FARC in Colombia.
10/20/2005 : Colombia re-election ban lifted
Colombia's Constitutional Court has ruled that President Alvaro Uribe can stand for re-election next year, overturning a single-term limit.
10/19/2005 : Human Rights Activists ask US to withdraw support for Justice and Peace law.
Human Rights activists have asked the US government in Washington to withdraw support for the Peace and Justice law because in their opinion, the law only guarantees immunity for paramilitaries in Colombia.
10/15/2005 : Millions Displaced by Conflict Denied Basic Rights in Colombia
The Colombian government has failed to protect the basic human rights of millions displaced by the country's armed conflict, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. Displaced families are often denied access to education, emergency healthcare and humanitarian aid.
Colombia has the world's largest internal displacement crisis after Sudan. In the last three years alone, more than three million people, over five percent of Colombia's population, have been forcibly displaced because of the country's armed conflict. More than half of all displaced persons are children under the age of 18.
10/14/2005 : Colombia Unions Expect 100,000 to Protest Uribe Re-election Bid
Colombian organizers of a protest against President Alvaro Uribe's bid for a second term expect about 100,000 marchers in Bogota today as police raise security after foiling a rocket attack on the presidential palace.
10/11/2005 : Raul Reyes; "The humanitarian agreement is dead-locked"
Semana interviewed Raul Reyes the second in command of FARC, shortly after the video message he had just sent to participants in the Biarritz Forum in Bogotá. On the video he spoke of his meetings with French government envoys and the state of talks with the Colombian government, which in his view, are in a state of deadlock.
Yolanda Pulecio does not hide her feelings of powerlessness due to the lack of information of what has been done until now by the Colombian government in seeking a dialogue with the guerrilla to bring about a humanitarian exchange.
10/6/2005 : Hostages in Colombia: The truth about contacts between France and FARC-EP by Carlos Lozano Guillen - Voz
Carlos Lozano Guillen is the director of Voz (weekly paper of the Colombian Communist party). He has always had good contacts with FARC. Here he offers some worrying and disturbing explanations about the recent diplomatic crisis between France and the Colombian government.
10/5/2005 : Family of hostage in Colombia drops leaflets from plane
The family of a Colombian-Frenchwoman who was kidnapped by rebels four years ago, has dropped thousands of leaflets over the western Colombia mountains from an airplane, asking for information about her.
10/4/2005 : Paramilitaries lay down their arms in Colombia but security still an issue.
The demobilisation of 20000 AUC paramilitaries began in Medellin, the second city of Colombia.The Mayor wants to believe that the process of demobilisation is going to create a process from which there is no going back. According to him," paramilitaries caused terror, they still intimidate but the State and its institutions are gaining ground". This is an optimistic outlook.
10/3/2005 : Protest in Paris outside Colombian Embassy.
A hundred people gathered outside the residence of the Colombian Ambassador in Paris to ask the Colombian government for "concrete proof" that is working for the liberation of hostages in particular of the freedom of Ingrid Betancourt, held by FARC for more than 1,300 days.
10/2/2005 : Colombia; support for a humanitarian agreement with armed groups.
73% of Colombians are in favour of a peace agreement with FARC. 78% consider that negotiations with right wing paramilitary groups should continue.
10/1/2005 : Message sent by Jacques Chirac to Colombian President
Alvaro Uribe, President of Colombia met a former Secretary of the French State, Nicole Guedj on Thursday last in Bogota. The Colombian government confirmed that Mme Guedj had conveyed a personal message from Jacques Chirac in relation to FARC hostages among them, the French -Colombian Ingrid Betancourt.
Yolanda Pulecio, Ingrid Betancourt's mother during an interview with the independent radio station RCN took the Colombian President to task. "President Uribe's answer seems useless to me and answers nothing", she stated. "I have been listening to him for three years, one day he says yes, the next, no", added Yolanda Pulecio before praising the "decency" of President Chirac. And in Paris, the local support committee is organising a sit-in in front of the Colombian Embassy.
Archives of our Press review articles since May, 2003 :
>News Sep 05
>News Aug 05
>News July 05
>News June 05
>News May 05
>News Apr 05
>News Mar 05
>News Feb 05
>News Jan 05
>News Dec 04
>News Nov 04
>News Oct 04
>News Sep 04
>News Aug 04
>News Apr-Jul 04
>News Feb-Mar 04
>News Jan 04
>News Nov-Dec 03
>News Sept.-Oct 03
>News July-August 03
>News May-June 03
>Back