Murder attempt on director of NGO CODHES
A group of unknown assailants stabbed Marco Romero, the director of CODHES, a Colombian NGO that campaigns for human rights and against forced displacement, while he was walking through central Bogota…
A group of unknown assailants stabbed Marco Romero, the director of CODHES, a Colombian NGO that campaigns for human rights and against forced displacement, while he was walking through central Bogota…
A Colombian human rights defender was shot dead in the northern department of Sucre on Wednesday, in what appears to be another attack on activists working to protect the rights…
A debate among presidential candidates on forced displacement in Colombia was canceled by its organizers on Tuesday due to a “lack of interest” from the candidates, reports Colombian NGO CODHES. The…
Threats and intimidation by criminal gangs in the city of Medellin displaced 1,355 students in 2009, preventing them from attending school regularly, according to Colombian human rights NGO CODHES. A…
One of Colombia’s most notorious drug-trafficking gangs “Los Rastrojos” sent threatening emails and letters to over 60 non-governmental organizations (NGOs), senators and human rights activists, Colombian human rights NGO the…
Two Afro-Colombian community leaders in Cauca were killed by unknown assassins on January 21 and 22, human rights group CODHES announced on Friday. Jose Felix Orejuela, a teacher, and Milton…
The director of the government agency for social action in Colombia, Diego Andres Molano Aponte reported a 56% decrease in displacement for the year of 2009, with more than 107,752…
80.7 percent of Colombia’s displaced population – in total more than a quarter of a million people – are poverty-stricken, a Colombian NGO told the Inter-American Court of Human Rights…