Washington Office on Latin America

WOLA works with several Afro-descendant and indigenous communities in Colombia in defense of their land rights.  Click the image above to watch “The War We Are Living,” a PBS documentary featuring the struggle of two of WOLA’s partners. These Afro-Colombian women face death threats and imminent displacement because of their courage to defend their rights. WOLA works with these brave women to provide protection for their communities.

This November WOLA presented Dr. Kathryn Sikkink with the 4^th Annual WOLA-Duke Book Award for her work The Justice Cascade. In a ceremony at American University, WOLA highlighted this work for its in-depth examination of the impact and outcomes of human rights trials over the past 30 years in Latin America. Started in 2008, the WOLA-Duke Human Rights Book Award honors the best current, non-fiction book published in English on human rights, democracy, and social justice in contemporary Latin America.