Colombia
Action Alerts
The U.S. Colombia-Free Trade Agreement, A Tool for Ethnocide
September 2008
U.S.-Colombia Free Trade
Agreement – Still a Threat to Afro-Descendants
July 2008
Fact Sheets
Colombia: Law 70 1993
August 2008
The Drug War as Race War
March 29, 2007
News Releases/Press Statements
TransAfrica Acknowledges the Rescue of Fifteen Hostages
from Colombia’s FARC
July 3, 2008
TransAfrica Forum Reflects on U.S. Foreign Policy towards
Colombia as John McCain Travels to South America
July 2, 2008
Mass Protest against Colombian President Alvaro Uribe and
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May 2, 2007
Aerial Fumigation is Contributing to the Worst Recent Humanitarian Crisis in Colombia, Experts Say
April 7, 2007
Policy Statements/Issue Briefs
TransAfrica Forum Reflects on U.S. Foreign Policy towards
Colombia as John McCain Travels to South America
July 2, 2008
The Plight of Afro-Colombians
May 2001
Special Reports
TransAfrica Columbia Report: Afro-Colombians Systematic Repression and the U.S. - Colombia Free Trade Agreement: Executive Summary
This report summarizes conversations with Afro-Colombian civil society organizations throughout Colombia during a week-long February 2008 visit made by Nicole Lee, Executive Director, and Nora Rasman, Program Assistant of TransAfrica Forum as members of a Witness for Peace delegation. Their schedule included small and large community meetings convened with the assistance of Proceso de Comunidades Negras (PCN) and Asociacion de Afrocolombianos Desplazados (AFRODES). Download the report.
Afro-Colombians Autonomous Rights Undermined: Systematic Repression and the U.S. - Colombia Free Trade Agreement: Full Report. Download the report.
Event Summaries
Colombian Hostage Negotiations: Press Conference with Senator Piedad Córdoba and Jo Rosano