Colombia’s fragile hold on peace is slipping.
Social leaders are fighting for both their lives and their communities.

Following Colombia’s historic peace accord in 2016, a group of activists and human rights defenders—known as social leaders—began the grassroots work of building peace in Afro-Colombian, Indigenous, and rural communities long terrorized by conflict.

MORE THAN 500 SOCIAL LEADERS HAVE LOST THEIR LIVES SINCE 2016

Social leaders are murdered for working to build peace. There have been more than 60 massacres in 2020 alone in many of the communities they work in.

TWICE AS MANY
AS IN 2018

Without the work of social leaders in Afro-Colombian, Indigenous, and rural communities, peace in Colombia is not possible.

Social leaders are calling on us to support their work for peace and protect their lives.

LISTEN TO THE STORY.
CHANGE THE STORY.
JOIN THE STORY.

LISTEN TO
THE STORY

Rebuilding Peace is a documentary podcast following the stories of four social leaders in Colombia. Together, they paint a picture of the danger of government neglect and armed violence that threatens to unravel the nation’s tenuous hold on peace, despite the promises made in the historic 2016 peace accord.

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Leyner
Palacios Asprilla

Danelly
Estupiñán

Erlendy
Cuero Bravo

Darío
Mejía

CHANGE
THE STORY

The international community — activists and policymakers alike — must press Colombia to both protect social leaders, and support their work by fully implementing the peace accords. Without the work of social leaders in Afro-Colombian, Indigenous, and rural communities, peace in Colombia is not possible.