Colombia’s Vice President Angelino Garzon called for guerrillas to demobilize on Tuesday at the opening of a meeting at the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly (Eurolat) in Brussels. At the meeting,…
The Spanish Supreme Court has rejected the asylum appeal of a Colombian ex-FARC member, despite claims he was forced to join the guerrillas as a child. It ruled against Jhon…
The Colombian government has launched a series of television adverts aimed at preventing children from joining the leftist guerrilla group the FARC. The public awareness campaign — entitled “Stop, I want…
Colombia will denounce the FARC before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights for enlisting child soldiers, reported Caracol Radio Wednesday. Guillermo Albert Gonzalez, governor of the Cauca department where the recruitment…
June 17 2010, A senior UN official urged both Myanmar and Colombia to allow the United Nations to negotiate directly with rebel groups to secure the demobilisation of child soldiers.…
A study released by the Prosecutor General’s Justice and Peace office says that the paramilitary umbrella organization AUC recruited more than 2,800 minors to fight over a fifteen year period.…
UNICEF’s representative in Colombia expressed concern over the increase in the recruitment of minors as guerrillas at the First International Congress on the Recruitment and Use of Children in Bogota…
Colombia will present a report to the UN Security Council next Monday regarding the issue of children who are recruited by criminal organizations in the country. Colombia’s Vice President, Fancisco…