Haitian children to study in Colombian schools
Colombia’s national police will sponsor 100 Haitian children to study in Bogota schools for at least a year, reported radio Caracol on Friday. National police director, General Oscar Naranjo, confirmed…
Colombia’s national police will sponsor 100 Haitian children to study in Bogota schools for at least a year, reported radio Caracol on Friday. National police director, General Oscar Naranjo, confirmed…
Yidis Medina, the former senator who is currently under house arrest for accepting bribes from government officials, said Thursday her fifteen-year-old son has been missing since Tuesday. According to Medina,…
Colombia is expecting some 860,000 little Colombians to be born this year, the country’s Health Ministry announced on Thursday. The birth of all these babies comes with a pricetag; national…
A Venezuelan woman in the north Colombian Sucre department killed her two children and herself, local media reported on Thursday. A four-year old child died in a local hospital Friday,…
The FARC run a camp in the north of Colombia where female recruits are forced to undergo abortion, a former guerrilla said Saturday. The “abortion camp” is located on a…
Cali authorities on Tuesday expressed concern about an increase in child labor during the holiday season. According to the Committe for the Eradication of Child Labor and Protection of Working…
The human rights situation for children in Colombia is the worst in Latin America, the president of the the International Tribunal for Children affected by War and Poverty said Tuesday.…
On average 450 children die annually from malnutrition in Colombia, admitted the director of welfare agency ICBF Wednesday. The ICBF director, Rosa Maria Navarro, stated that this annual mortality rate…
Army commander selected Monday the Colombian town La Maracena to launch campaign against recruitment of minors into FARC guerrilla forces, urging people to come forward with information. Colombia’s Armed Forces…