Violence threatening election of Colombia’s war victims
Armed conflict and political violence are threatening the participation of Colombia’s war...
Tag: political participation
Colombia’s main opposition force allowed to take part in 2022 elections
The political party of Colombia’s main opposition politician will be allowed to take part in...
Colombia’s army recruiting war victims ahead of elections: report
Colombia’s army is recruiting war victims who could represent the military in Congress after...
Victims from Colombia’s warzones granted extra seats in Congress
Colombia’s Constitutional Court on Friday granted 16 congressional seats to war-torn...
Colombia’s senate chief to force Duque’s hand over seats for victims in Congress
Colombia’s senate president will ratify a senate vote granting 16 seats in Congress to...
FARC member to become mayor after winning first election since peace deal
For the first time since Colombia’s FARC guerrillas demobilized and became a political party...
Colombia’s conflict victims demand political representation and denounce repression
More than a hundred victim organizations asked the government to comply with its obligation to...
FARC’s missing former peace negotiator loses seat in Colombia’s Congress
The FARC’s former political chief “Ivan Marquez,” was stripped on the senate...
FARC’s political leader renounces senate seat
The political leader of the FARC, the group that demobilized thousands of guerrillas last year,...
Why Santos praised ‘massive participation’ when half of Colombia did not vote
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos praised the “massive participation” in...
Casting first vote in decades, FARC’s first election campaign comes to an end
After the former guerrillas’ senate candidates cast their votes, the FARC’s first and...
Colombia court orders congress to ratify seats for conflict victims
A Bogota court on Monday ordered Colombia’s congress to ratify 16 temporary seats in the...
