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Make a donation : Colombia (Nariño) displacement / food insecurity 
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CWS Response to Colombia Crisis
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Colombia is currently one of the largest recipients of U.S. military assistance. Yet reports from the United Nations, the U.S. Department of State, independent human rights organizations, and Colombian judicial authorities point to continuing ties between the Colombian security forces and brutal paramilitary groups responsible for massacres, assassinations of community leaders and human rights defenders, and over 70% of Colombia’s human rights abuses. CWS urges that assistance to Colombia be supportive of, and not undermine, the peace process there.
CWS resources on Colombia:
Lift
Every Voice: calling African American churches to express solidarity
with Afro-Colombians - Afro-Colombians:
Promoting Alternatives to Violence, Displacement, and Impoverishment
- Colombian
Churches: Targeted for Promoting and Defending Human Rights
- U.S.
Foreign Policy Towards Colombia
News releases:
- 04/13/07 Church World Service delivers relief as thousands of Afro-Colombians flee violence in remote areas
- 09/29/06 Colombian Religious Leaders Visit U.S.
- 08/22/05 "No Life Without Water"- Colombia's peace activist Ricardo Esquivia
- 06/01/04 Humanitarian Delegation Finds Plight of Uprooted Afro-Colombians 'Appalling, but Spirit Strong'
An ecumenical petition to President Bush, calling for new U.S. policies that contribute to peace, justice and sustainable development in Colombia - www.petitiononline.com/ewg2/petition.htm