The ELN on Tuesday rejected prosecution claims that Colombia’s last-standing guerrilla group is forcing children to join their rebel ranks. The guerrillas’ chief peace negotiator, “Pablo Beltran” responded to an arrest…
Colombia’s Prosecutor General’s Office said Sunday that the country’s last-standing guerrilla group, the ELN, continues to recruit child soldiers. In a press release and a series of tweets, the prosecution…
Colombia’s demobilized FARC rebels recruited more than 5,000 minors during its 52-year war with the state, according to the prosecution. The country’s war crimes tribunal received a report from the…
According to the United Nations, former child soldiers of the FARC were sent home by the now-demobilized guerrillas before a peace process that began in December 2016. The UN, which…
Colombia’s largest, but demobilizing rebel group FARC has so far surrendered 57 child soldiers, more than double the “no more than 25” it said to have in its ranks ahead of…
The first child soldiers this year were released by Colombia’s demobilizing Marxist FARC rebels, according to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). The ICRC reported that “various boys and girls”…
The head of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) called on Colombia’s Marxist FARC rebel group to speed up the release of the child soldiers among their ranks,…
Dozens of child soldiers are expected to be released from Colombia’s FARC rebel group in the coming weeks as part of a peace deal that ended one of the world’s…
The surrender of child soldiers of the Marxist FARC guerrilla group will begin on February 1, Colombia’s High Commissioner for Peace announced on Thursday. High Commissioner Sergio Jaramillo emphasized that this…