Through our method of international accompaniment, we strive to create protection, support and international solidarity with those who are threatened for defending human rights. We accompany organisations based on an initial collaborative process of analysis and after we have signed an agreement that outlines what the accompaniment entails.
AJODENIU is community organisation based in the northern neighbourhoods of Quibdó that promotes participation in peaceful, non-violent activities. It was founded by and for young people from displaced families from Chocó and Urabá Antioqueño. They work especially with children, adolescents and young people through sports, cultural and psychosocial activities that promote safe spaces and peace building. SweFOR accompanies AJODENIU since 2025.
ASIMTRACAMPIC is a non-governmental organisation founded in 2013 in the municipality of Piamonte, located in the southwest of Colombia, in the region of La Bota Caucana. They promote the right to territory, the construction of peace based in community involvement, the protection of Amazonian ecosystems, food sovereignty and the strengthening of human rights, with a focus on children, youth and gender equality. ASIMTRACAMPIC has been accompanied by SweFOR since 2024.
MOVICE – the National Movement of Victims of State Crimes – gathers individuals and their loved ones who have been victims of crimes committed by the Colombian State as part of the armed conflict, whether by action or omission, such as forced disappearances, extrajudicial killings and state sanctioned violence. MOVICE seeks recognition of the rights to truth, justice, integral reparation, guarantee of non-repetition and the recognition of victims of crimes committed by the state. SweFOR accompanies the Bogotá chapter of MOVICE since 2019.
The vision of the CCNPB is to contribute to the defence and promotion of life, the care of nature and the environment, and of human rights, for the construction of peace with justice. CCNPB also work to accompany and support processes and communities in their efforts towards the same vision. SweFOR accompanies the CCNPB since 2017, especially in processes of land restitution and collective reparation.
Cocomacia is an ethnic-territorial organization that works for the defence of the right to territorial, social and cultural autonomy in 124 afro-Colombian community councils in five municipalities in the region of Chocó and three in Antioquía. The autonomy is based in the Colombian Law 70 of 1993, which gives Afro-Colombian people recognition of the right to property of collective territory and other ethnic rights. SweFOR accompanies COCOMACIA since 2008.
Sisma Mujer is a Colombian feminist non-governmental organisation, founded on August 23, 1998. It is made up of women from different disciplines, and works with human rights defenders, social leaders, political refugees and women victims of armed conflict, sexual and domestic violence. Among other things, they provide free legal and psychosocial advice to women who are victims of sexual and/or domestic violence and to relatives of victims of femicide. SweFOR has accompanied Sisma Mujer 2020, predominantly when their work takes them to regions in the country where the armed conflict remains at a high level.
La Asociación Red de Defensores y Defensoras de Derechos Humanos – dhColombia is a non-profit organisation, founded in 2015. Its mission is the promotion, dissemination, protection and defence of human rights, with the aim of achieving peace, through the improvement of the political, social, economic, cultural and environmental conditions of Colombian society. SweFOR accompanies dhColombia since 2023.
La Pastoral Social de la Diócesis de Quibdó is an ecclesiastical organisation located in the Alto Atrato and Medio Atrato sub-region of Chocó and Antioquia that seeks to contribute to the construction of a culture of respect for human rights and the peaceful resolution of conflicts. Through the Comisión Vida Justicia y Paz (COVIJUPA) and the missionary teams, it has been developing programmes aimed at responding to the most urgent needs of the Afro-Colombian, indigenous and mestizo communities in rural and urban areas by accompanying local organisational processes in the region. SweFOR has been accompanying them since 2023.