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Timeline of PBI Accompaniments

David Ravelo (Regional Corporation for the Defence of Human Rights - CREDHOS). PBI has accompanied CREDHOS since 1994.

Danilo Rueda, Liliana Ávila (Inter-Church Justice and Peace Commission - CIJP) and Nadia Akmoun (PBI). PBI volunteers have accompanied CIJP since 1994.

Members of the José Alvear Restrepo Lawyers´ Collective - CCAJAR. PBI has accompanied CCAJAR since 1995.

Community Readers from the Peace Community of San José de Apartadó. PBI volunteers have accompanied the Peace Community since 1997. Photo: Charlotte Kesl

Member of the Political Prisoners Solidarity Committee – FCSPP. PBI has accompanied FCSPP since 1998. Photo: Charlotte Kesl

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Berenice Celeyta and Olga Araujo (NOMADESC). PBI has accompanied Berenice Celeyta since 1999.

Bayron Góngora (Corporation Judicial Freedom – CJL). PBI volunteers have accompanied CJL since 2001. Photo: Charlotte Kesl

Judith Maldonado (Luís Carlos Pérez Lawyers´ Collective – CCALCP) and PBI volunteers. PBI has accompanied CCALCP since 2006. Photo: Charlotte Kesl

Andrés Gil (Peasant Farmer Association of the Cimitarra River Valley – ACVC). PBI has accompanied ACVC since 2009.

Fabián Laverde (Social Corporation for Community Advice and Training Services – COS-PACC). PBI has accompanied COS-PACC since 2009.

Foto: Bianca Bauer

Jorge Molano (lawyer). PBI has accompanied Jorge Molano since 2009

Claudia Julieta Duque (journalist). PBI has accompanied Claudia Julieta Duque since 2010.

1994

  • PBI opens office in Bogotá and Barrancabermeja
  • Association of Family Members of Detained and Disappeared (Asociación de Familiares de Detenidos Desaparecidos - ASFADDES), until 2012
  • 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 (until 2012)                
  • Sabana de Torres Regional Human Rights Committee (Comité Regional de Derechos Humanos Sabana de Torres, until 1997)

 1997/1998

  • PBI opens office in Turbo for the region of Urabá (office relocation to Apartadó in 2011) 
  • CIJP, 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 (until 2000)
  • 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 (until 2012)

 1999

  • PBI opens office in Medellín (closure in 2012) 
  • ASFADDES Chapter in Medellín (until 2011)
  • Popular Training Institute (Instituto Popular de Capacitación - IPC) in Medellín (until 2010) 
  • FCSPP Chapter in Medellín
  • Berenice Celeyta in the city of Cali (until 2011, since then, PBI accompanies the Association for Social Investigation and Research Nomadesc of which Celeyta is a member)  
  • ASFADDES Chapter in Barrancabermeja (until 2000)
  • Peace Community of San José de Apartadó, in Urabá

 2000

  • Community for Self-Determination Life and Dignity (Comunidad de Autodeterminación, Vida y Dignidad - CAVIDA), in Cacarica, Chocó Department (until 2011)

 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), until 2005

 2004

  • Manuel Cepeda Vargas Foundation (Fundación Manuel Cepeda Vargas), nationally (until 2012)

2005

  • José Daniel Álvarez (lawyer), nationally (until 2013)

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 the Cimitarra River Valley (Asociación Campesina del Valle del Río Cimitarra - ACVC) in the Magdalena Medio region

2009

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

2010

  • Claudia Julieta Duque (journalist), nationally

2011

  • PBI opens office in Cali (closure in 2012)
  • Association for Social Investigation and Research (Nomadesc), in Cauca and Valle del Cauca 
  • Inter-Church Justice and Peace Commission (Comisión Intereclesial Justicia y Paz - CIJP), in Valle del Cauca
  • FCSPP Chapter in Bucaramanga (Santander)
  • Lilia Peña of the Magdalena Medio Victim´s Association (Asorvimm), until 2013

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