Commemorating Afro-Colombian Day – 21 May A lasting peace is unattainable without everyone’s participation. The United Nations Verification Mission in Colombia joins the commemoration of Afro-Colombian Day and reaffirms its…
Eight years after the 2016 Peace Agreement was signed, the landscape of the reintegration process has changed: 10,265 signatories live outside the Territorial Areas for Training and Reintegration (TATRs), in more than 600…
Ahead of the eighth anniversary of the Colombian Peace Agreement later this month, the exhibition ‘Seeds of Peace’ gathers the photographs taken by peace signatories, their families and community members, showing their…
Girls, boys and adolescents from five spaces for reintegration have received training in photography and multimedia to tell the stories of their territory from their perspectives. The goal is to tell the stories of more than…
International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples 2024 On the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples, we reaffirm our commitment to the protection and promotion of the collective rights of Indigenous Peoples…
There is no denying that football is the most popular sport in the world. People feel the same passion whether they are playing in a community in the heart of the jungle or on any pitch in a city. This was the experience in…
Every 28 June since 1970, cities around the globe hold parades to commemorate the riots at a New York club a year earlier, which led to several nights of unrest by citizens protesting against police brutality. Thus…
The communications programme “Semillas de Paz” visited the rural area of Tumaco, Nariño, to teach a group of young people and adults of the former ETCR La Variante and the neighboring communities how to contribute to peace…
In Cauca, Indigenous Mapuche women from the Araucanía region in Chile, Nasa and Misak women from Colombia and local women leaders shared their experiences as part of the International Conference of Women Mediators for…