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ES Now or never: CEV's historic opportunity to shed light on what happened to LGBT people in the Colombian conflict
With 30 cases documented and analysed in Pasto, Tumaco, Putumayo and the south of Tolima, the report by Colombia Diversa entitled "Who is going to tell us?" calls on the Truth Commission to be the first of its kind in the world to tell, in depth and in the voice of [...]
"The risk of defending and leading
Common patterns and differential impacts on human rights violations against human rights defenders in Colombia. "The risk of defending and leading" is a report on the work of individuals, communities and organisations that defend rights and vindicate social causes in Colombia, in which violations of their human rights are addressed.
Lots of ding, ding and no popsicles: how is LGBT public policy doing at the national level?
Civil society took part in a hearing in the Congress of the Republic to make known their perception of the lengthy process of implementing the LGBT public policy. All in the midst of a context in which this population is the target of acts of discrimination and violence that are not investigated or, in their [...]
To my uncle, the faggot of the family
I was always afraid of becoming like you, Uncle Bernardo. I was terrified that I was going to grow old alone, like a depraved man who screwed everyone and at every social gathering turned into a madwoman. You, great-uncle Bernardo, became the epitome of what I hated. The hatred for [...]
#LuisNoEstásSolo: Reflections on the case of the young man who had his arm removed because he was gay
It would seem that the story of a young man having part of his arm removed just for being gay is fiction, a story from another era or from a country like Russia, Egypt or the Cayman Islands, where LGBT people are still criminalised. But no. The story is real and it happened in [...]
She loves art, she loves women and the strokes are her revolution.
The act of having a purifying experience of the emotions, of the soul or of the being itself, is called catharsis. That was what Linda Cabrera did every time she wrote one of her stories, an almost poetic fiction in which she wrote about another woman, about what she felt for her, about her desires. She wrote [...]
Colombia Diversa to implement remote work as a containment measure for COVID-19
In the midst of the current situation, following the emergence of COVID-19, Colombia Diversa will implement remote work from Tuesday 17 March 2020 until 13 April (as a tentative date). As a measure of solidarity and responsibility in the face of the pandemic, we have decided that as a social human rights organisation we will take the [...]
Digital resources and reports on LGBT people for students and researchers
We know that in this time of quarantine many colleges and higher education institutions have chosen to enable virtual studies to meet the academic calendar. Many of these projects are related to research on LBGT rights. It is for this reason that we would like to list some of the latest research done by Colombia Diversa [...]
Inclusive books for a rainbow quarantine
Lope de Vega used to say about love that "He who has tried it, knows it". Other people often say the same about books. That Free Pass to another universe, an escape and, sometimes, a revelation, as many come close to saying in the days of coronavirus, when Albert Camus, in his book 'La Peste', [...]
Five state entities that will watch over your rights in this quarantine period
In these days of quarantine, we have received cases of people who want to report a situation of harassment or discrimination and do not know how to do it; or people who want to approach a family police station to report a situation of domestic violence. Thinking of them and all the people who may need information about the channels [...]
