The recruitment of minors continues to be a “widespread and systematic” practice of Colombia’s illegal armed groups, non-governmental organizations said Thursday. International NGO Oxfam and Colombian partners said so during…
Colombia’s military shot minors fleeing a FARC dissident camp that was bombed in an operation authorized by President Ivan Duque in August, locals told local media. According to public television…
Judges in northwest Colombia suspended the pending publication of a book about clerical child abuse in the country and threatened to take legal action against the journalist. The book, “Let…
The flagship proposal of Colombia’s President Ivan Duque to introduce life-long prison sentences for child molesters was rejected as “populist” by the Justice Ministry’s criminal policy commission on Tuesday. As…
Reports of sexual violence in Colombia, which is mainly targeting children, has tripled over the past 20 years, according to the Medical Examiner’s Office. According to the office, it conducted…
Colombia’s governmental child protection agency confirmed on Wednesday that child labor, while in decline, is still endemic across the country. In a statement, the head of the Colombian Institute of…
Parents and children announced the symbolic funeral of a child in Bogota on Wednesday, angered by a medical examiner report claiming a child is raped every 20 minutes. This shocking…
Poverty and child mortality increased in Colombia in 2018, according to the government. Statistics agency DANE said Friday that the country’s poverty rate increased slightly last year to 27%. Poverty…
One of Colombia’s first “peace babies,” children who are born and raised at reintegration site for demobilized FARC guerrillas, died at only seven months old after gunmen attacked his parents…