The Colombian government is failing to provide adequate support to child soldiers that escape illegal armed groups, the country’s highest ranking human rights official said.
The United States has indicted 17 top members of Colombia’s most powerful neo-paramilitary drug trafficking organization, the “Urabeños,” and will grant a $5 million reward for its boss, “Otoniel,” both the US…
The biggest ally of Medellin crime syndicate “Oficina de Envigado” is the city’s own police department, a commander of the group told television network Caracol.
A former mid-level commander of the paramilitary AUC has been assassinated in Medellin, reportedly three weeks after his release from prison where he spent eight years after admitting to 230…
After Marxist rebel group FARC vowed to ban the recruitment of minors, Colombia’s authorities are looking into neo-paramilitary groups that are accused of kidnapping girls to submit them as sex…
Three months into Colombia’s largest manhunt since Pablo Escobar, police said Sunday that authorities are “right behind” “Otoniel,” the elusive boss of the neo-paramilitary Urabeños group.
Colombia’s neo-paramilitary drug trafficking groups could become “political actors” if Congress passes a bill that allows the criminals to be fought under international humanitarian law (IHL), the police warned on Monday.
The US Army is investigating alleged sex crimes by soldiers and defense contractors, but they only make up a tiny percentage of Colombia’s overall sexual statistics within the conflict. The majority of…
Thousands of victims of Colombia’s armed conflict now have access to legal justice through a ruling of the Constitutional Court processed days before the unwrapping of the body’s corruption scandal.