Back to school with Juanes
Colombian music icon and activist Juanes has managed to make it cool to go back to school by selling notebooks with a message. The pop star and founder of Mi…
Colombian music icon and activist Juanes has managed to make it cool to go back to school by selling notebooks with a message. The pop star and founder of Mi…
Emergency services in the central Colombian department of Boyaca rescued five children who had been living since birth in caves dug by their father, without contact with the outside world, Colombian…
The United Nations (UN) included Colombian guerrilla groups the FARC and ELN on their list of “most persistent violators of children in conflict” in an annual report on children and…
The owner of a donkey in the north Colombian department of Cordoba threatens to sell the animal, after it attacked the owner’s two children, in an apparent hormonal rage. According…
The ombudsman for the central Colombian Meta department, Eduardo Gonzalez Pardo, expressed his concern over the growing number of children being recruited to illegally armed groups in the region, reported…
Seven hundred special needs children from around Latin America will gather in the Colombian port city of Cartagena to perform in plays, dances and dozens of cultural activities as part of…
Medellin’s murder rate increased by 54.8% in the first three months of 2010 compared to the same period the previous year, with 503 reported homicides, according to a report released…
Medellin police announced that since September last year they have captured eight criminal band members that are dedicated to the recruitment and training of minors to carry out illegal activities…
UNICEF named Colombia as one of 28 countries where children are living in dire poverty, in its “Humanitarian Action Report 2010,” released Thursday. The children’s advocacy group called for $1.2…