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Audiovisual sector workers in Colombia create new union ANTA 2024-04-25 [UNI Global Union]

New hope and challenges for unions under union-backed government 2024-03-20 [LabourStart Podcasts]

Questions in Irish parliament about peace and Human Rights 2024-03-12 [Justice for Colombia]

fighting to eradicate workplace violence and harassment 2024-03-09 [ITF]

First global unions-led workshop to support LGBTQI+ workers under C190 2024-03-07 [IFJ]

Sintracarbón signs agreement with Cerrejón Colombia and avoids strike action 2024-03-04 [IndustriALL]

Report evidences discrimination against afro and LGBTI+ people in commerce and icts sector in Colombia 2023-12-05 [UNI]

UNI Global Union Presents Freedom from Fear Award 2023 to Resilient Colombian Union Leader  2023-08-31 [UNI Global Union]

UNI joins demand to protect Colombian democracy 2023-06-11 [UNI]

care unions create alliance to address social reforms 2023-05-12 [UNI Global Union]

Teleperformance, UNI Americas and Utraclaro reach agreement in Colombia 2023-04-19 [UNI]

Women leading the charge for labour reform in Colombia 2023-03-10 [UNI Global Union]

SINTRASASS wins 2022 Breaking Through Award for care organizing 2022-11-11 [UNI Global Union]

Coal workers discuss the need for a just transition 2022-11-09 [IndustriALL]

TIME investigation reveals the traumatized Teleperformance workers moderating TikTok 2022-10-22 [UNI]

Columbia: WFTU Columbia condemns assassination of comrade Sibares Lamprea, union leader of USO 2022-09-26 [WFTU]

APPELLATE COURT REVIVES HUMAN RIGHTS CASE AGAINST CHIQUITA 2022-09-14 [Earth Rights.org]

PSI affiliates celebrate the inauguration of Gustavo Petro and Francia Marquez in Colombia 2022-08-16 [PSI]

Colombia 2022: Hope and cautious optimism 2022-07-29 [CUPE]

How Diaspora Voters Rallied to Support Colombia's Francia Márquez 2022-06-19 [Nacla]

UNI calls on Itaú bank to stop ‘forced resignations' in Colombia 2022-06-11 [UNI]

After 30 years on Bogotá buses, I fear that just transition is slipping out of our hands 2021-11-18 [Equal Times]

The indigenous Wayúu: at risk of losing their ancestral way of life 2017-05-12 [equal times]

‘This government has to fall' 2019-12-02 [Roar/New Frame]

“The situation of human rights defenders in Colombia is unsustainable”: UN 2020-04-03 [Opendemocracy]

‘Workers get the thorns': the moral ugliness of rose factories 2022-05-09 [The Guardian]

Threats at Clínica Medellin - Quironsalud / Fresenius 2021-02-08 [UNI Global Union]

Global Pilots Condemn Avianca Airlines Management's Union Busting Actions 2018-03-03 [IFALPA]

Workers' strike defeats tax measure 2021-05-05 [BWI]

Workers' strike defeats tax measure 2021-05-05 [BWI]

A teachers' union tries to keep Colombia's schools closed 2021-07-25 [The Economist]

Colombia's coca growers are trapped between forced eradication and a lack of alternatives 2017-04-26 [Equal Times]

Community mothers' fight for a decent life in their old age 2017-04-10 [Equal Times]

Colombia's community mothers' fight for a decent life in their old age 2017-04-10 [Equal Times]

Crushing The Wings Of Labor: The Air Pilot's Strike And Colombia's Ongoing Labor Crisis 2017-11-09 [Huffington Post]

The agony of Colombia's quarantined sex workers 2020-04-20 [Macau Business]

The strike won't stop  ActNOW!  2021-06-13 [Red Pepper]

Colombia Food Workers Union Denounces Leader's Murder For more info 2018-11-16 [Solidarity Center]

Colombia Women's Soccer Team Tackles Discrimination For more info 2019-10-04 [Solidarity Center]

UNI WEB condemns Colombian government's disregard for attack on leading care union 2018-11-16 [UNI Global Union]

Repsol Plant In Cartagena Calls Three-day Strike 2022-07-15 [Today]

A New Colombia: The Rise of the Left 2022-07-03 [Nacla]

Teachers are facing death threats 2022-06-14 [rabble]

ITUC demands free and fair presidential elections 2022-05-25 [ITUC]

What labour and trade union agenda should the new Colombian government and Congress pursue? Here are some proposals 2022-05-12 [Equal Times]

With murder of a trade union leader, peace continues to cost the lives of Colombians 2022-05-02 [UNI]

Report of the High-Level Trade Union Commission for Electoral Observation for the 2022 Congressional Elections and Presidential Primaries 2022-04-02 [UNI]

Global union campaign: Fresenius must denounce death threats in Colombia  ActNOW!  2022-02-23 [UNI]

GLOBAL LABOUR MOVEMENT DEPLOYS ELECTION OBSERVATION MISSION 2022-02-18 [UNI Global Union]

Protected journalist under surveillance without her consent 2021-11-01 [IFJ]

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