From third-world internationalism to the Colombian movement for human rights: continuities and ruptures at the end of the 1970s

This text asserts that the birth of the Colombian human rights movement resulted from the confluence of two different political currents. In the late 1970s, human rights took on a role that they had not enjoyed in previous years. In Colombia, more than a human rights movement existed a set of organizations whose objectives were subordinated but promoted solidarity based on Third World internationalism to the rest of the left-wing social movements. This perspective allows us to understand the novelty and continuities that shaped this nascent movement. © 2022 Universidad de Antioquia. All rights reserved.