Colombia Senator Armando Benedetti filed a complaint against the mayor of Cartagena for alleged discrimination against the LGBT community after moving a gay pride parade without notice during the city’s…
A prominent Colombian senator claimed Tuesday he had receiving threats after speaking out against a recently arrested governor with alleged paramilitary ties.
Of Colombia’s 102 senators, only 56 showed up at to vote on a health care reform bill that seeks to tackle ongoing crises in the country’s public health care sector.
A Colombian senator and promoter of gay marriage has presented a claim before the International Court of Human Rights (ICHR) in defense of the LGBT community in Colombia.
A project seeking to establish specific regulations for the practice of euthanasia in Colombia has been defeated at the second round of Senate debates.
While some Colombian senators spoke out that the gay marriage proposal was set to be defeated, Senator Armando Benedetti on Wednesday denied the claims and said congress is “divided.”
Some politicians have claimed that the trip taken on Sunday by six Colombian congressmen to meet with the peace negotiators for the government and country’s largest guerrilla group FARC is…
Gay rights organization “Colombia Diversa” slammed Senator Roberto Gerlein for calling gay sex “dirty, repulsive…excremental and [deserving of] condemnation”. The senator’s comments were “prejudiced, discriminatory…and lead to delegitimizing the lesbian,…
The Christian movement in Colombia’s Congress has spoken out in opposition against the proposed bill on euthanasia that is awaiting a second debate in the plenary of the Senate. The…