Timeline of PBI Accompaniments

• PBI opens office in Bogotá and Barrancabermeja

• Association of Family Members of Detained and Disappeared (Asociación de Familiares de Detenidos Desaparecidos - ASFADDES)

• Regional Corporation for the Defence of Human Rights (Corporación Regional para la Defensa de los Derechos Humanos - CREDHOS) 

• Inter-Church Justice and Peace Commission (Comisión Intereclesial Justicia y Paz - CIJP)

1995 

• José Alvear Restrepo Lawyers’ Collective (Corporación Colectivo de Abogados José Alvear Restrepo - CCAJAR), nationally

• Grass Roots Women’s Organisation (Organización Femenina Popular - OFP) in Barrancabermeja                 

• Sabana de Torres Regional Human Rights Committee (Comité Regional de Derechos Humanos Sabana de Torres) until the forced exile of Mario Calixto in 1997

1997/1998

• PBI opens office in Turbo for the region of Urabá 

• CIJP, in Urabá 

• Peace Community of San José de Apartadó, in Urabá

• Centre for Research and Popular Education (Centro de Investigación y Educación Popular - CINEP) and Peace Communities of San Francisco de Asís, in Urabá

• Political Prisoners Solidarity Committee (Fundación Comité de Solidaridad con los Presos Políticos - FCSPP) in Bogotá

• Association for Alternative Social Promotion (Asociación para la Promoción Social Alternativa - MINGA) in Bogotá and Norte de Santander (Catatumbo) and Putumayo departments

1999

• PBI opens office in Medellín 

• ASFADDES Chapter in Medellín

• Popular Training Institute (Instituto Popular de Capacitación - IPC) in Medellín 

• FCSPP Chapter in Medellín

• Berenice Celeyta in the city of Cali

• ASFADDES Chapter in Barrancabermeja, until its closure in 2000

2000

• Community for Self-Determination Life and Dignity (Comunidad de Autodeterminación, Vida y Dignidad - CAVIDA), in Cacarica, Chocó Department

2001

• Corporation Judicial Freedom (Corporación Jurídica Libertad - CJL) in Medellín

2003 

• National Association of Peasant, Black and Indigenous Women (Asociación Nacional de Mujeres Campesinas, Negras e Indígenas de Colombia - ANMUCIC)

2004

• Manuel Cepeda Vargas Foundation (Fundación Manuel Cepeda Vargas), nationally

2006

• Luis Carlos Pérez Lawyers’ Collective (Colectivo de Abogados Luis Carlos Pérez - CCALCP) in the Norte de Santander and Sur de Bolívar departments

2007

• Peasant Farmer Association of Antioquia (Asociación Campesina de Antioquia - ACA). In 2007, PBI began the initial stages to accompany the ACA. 

2009

• Peasant Farmer Association of the Cimitarra River Valley (Asociación Campesina del Valle del Río Cimitarra - ACVC) in the Magdalena Medio region

• Social Corporation for Community Advice and Training Services (Corporación Social para la Asesoría y Capacitación Comunitaria COS-PACC) in Casanare and Boyacá departments