Recent news from our international work
Would you like to work with protection human rights defenders in Colombia, Guatemala, and Mexico? Do you have experience in advocacy with national authorities and international human rights promotion and protection organisations, networking, and knowledge of the situation of human rights defenders in the region? Apply for the position of programme advocacy coordinator in Colombia […]
The Swedish Fellowship of Reconciliation (SweFOR) is looking for a consulting team to conduct an external and independent evaluation of its project “Comprehensive protection for human rights defenders in Colombia 2022-2025”, funded through Sweden’s Strategy for Development Cooperation with Colombia 2021-2025, represented by the Swedish Embassy in Colombia. Background The Swedish Fellowship of Reconciliation (SweFOR) […]
We would like to share with you the platform El Obse – Observatorio de Personas Defensoras de los Derechos Humanos en Chiapas, where you can also read the attached report on the situation for human rights defenders in the state. The Obse is a platform, a registry of attacks against human rights defenders and journalists […]
In Colombia, indigenous groups are often defenders of their territories despite multiple threats and risks. Armed conflict, dispossession of land and the expansion of economic interests have put at risk not only their continued life and presence in their territories, but also their cultural and spiritual identity. It was in this context and when […]
The Wajtakju Namto Ponötsi ancestral walk is a practice that the Maiben Masiware community carry out. They are a nomadic indigenous community living in the Caño Mochuelo reservation, located between the municipalities of Paz de Ariporo and Hato Corozal, in the region of Casanare. The millennial old tradition allows them to reconnect with their roots […]
On 6 August, a judge in the Federal Criminal Justice Court in the Mexican state of Chiapas handed out a 20-year prison sentence against Edgar “M” for the aggravated homicide of human rights defender Marcelo Pérez Pérez. The investigations were carried out by the Office of the Attorney General of the Republic (FGR), through the […]
SweFOR in Colombia is proud to announce the signing of an international accompaniment agreement with the Asociación de Jóvenes Desplazados Nueva Imagen en Unión (AJODENIU), a community organisation with more than 20 years’ experience of working in Quibdó, Chocó. Created by and for young people from displaced families from Chocó and Urabá Antioqueño, AJODENIU […]
We, the undersigned organisations, express our deep concern for the shrinking civic space in Chiapas, Mexico, due to the deteriorating conditions for the defence of human rights. We urgently call on the Mexican State to fulfil its obligation to protect and publicly support human rights defenders and their work, and to carry out thorough investigations […]
Dear Sirs and Madams, We are writing to express our concern for the five unjustly detained Tzeltal human rights defenders Manuel Santiz Cruz, Agustín Pérez Domínguez, Juan Velasco Aguilar, Martín Pérez Domínguez and Agustín Pérez Velasco, who were arbitrarily detained in 2022 and who have since been imprisoned in the prison el Centro Estatal de […]
The Swedish Fellowship of Reconciliation (SweFOR) would like to express our profound concern and condemnation of the forced entry into the home of Dora Roblero, director of the Fray Bartolomé de Las Casas Human Rights Centre (CDH Frayba), which took place on the 22nd of July 2025 in San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas. The […]