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The UN envoy upheld that Colombia’s historic 2016 peace agreement “represents a threat” to the activities of those who profit from limited state presence.

Illegally-armed groups and criminal organizations in Colombia are determined to “drive out State institutions and stamp out the voice of social leaders” through violence and intimidation, the head of the UN mission in the country told the Security ...

English News and Press Release on Colombia about Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding and Protection and Human Rights; published on 21 Jan 2021 by UN SC

January 21, 2021 Enrique Chimonja Coy was born to a campesino family in the south of Colombia in the 1970s. They lived in the macizo Colombiano, an important water source where the Amazon meets the Andes. As a boy, he woke up before dawn every day, fed the horses, ate breakfast, and then went with his father to help him log timber, which was his family’s primary source of income. They didn’t use chainsaws or “technologies of today” as Enrique put it, but traditional hand tools that all...

The United Nations Illegally-armed groups and criminal organizations in Colombia are determined to “drive out State institutions and stamp out the voice of social leaders” through violence and intimidation, the head of the UN mission in the country told the Security Council on Thursday. “They cannot be allowed to succeed”, Carlos Ruiz Massieu, Special Representative and Head of the UN Verification Mission in Colombia said via videolink, urging authorities to “remain firm” in develop...

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