The International Office for Human Rights Action on Colombia

A call on the Protection of life, the territory and the exercise of self-government of the indigenous communities of the Cauca department

The international civil society organisations signatories to this public statement, Diakonia, ForumCiv, Act Church of Sweden,  We Effect and SweFOR, responsible for the implementation of the Project “Aremos Paz”, funded by the European Fund for Peace of the European Union and the Swedish International Development Agency – Sida, and the International Office for Human Rights Action on Colombia – Oidhaco, reject and condemn the murder of Governor Sandra Liliana Peña Chocué of the La Laguna Siberia Indigenous Reservation, municipality of Caldono, which is part of the Association of Indigenous Councils Sat’h Tama Kiwe of the Indigenous Regional Council of Cauca-CRIC.

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