Bogota’s Superior Court has suspended the payment of COP30 billion ($16 million) in compensation to 1,500 displaced Colombians by presidential aid agency Accion Social, Semana reports. Accion Social won its second appeal…
The president of the Colombian National Reparations Commission, Eduardo Pizarro, said that the state needs to create a new capped system for awarding victims of the country’s ongoing civil conflict that is…
Former FARC hostage Ingrid Betancourt renounced her petition for damages from the French government, after she was offered almost $600,000 in compensation for the six years she spent in the…
The Colombian government and vast numbers of the Colombian public on Friday strongly criticized the revelation that former hostage Ingrid Betancourt is seeking $6.6 million from the Colombian state as…
A judge ordered the Colombian Catholic church to pay COP 600 million ($315,000) in compensation to the family of the victims, in the case of a priest who killed his lover…
The Colombian army will give a $1.3 million (COP2.5 billion) reward to the informants who provided information leading to the rescue of four FARC hostages last weekend, announced army commander…
Former Former paramilitary leader Daniel “Don Mario” Rendon Herrera says he is grateful for Colombia’s decision not to extradite him to the U.S., and that he will continue to cooperate…
The Colombian Council of State on Tuesday ruled that one army captain and two sergeants convicted of committing “false positive” killings must pay back the money they received as payment…
Victims of rape perpetrated by paramilitaries demobilized in Colombia’s Justice and Peace process will be first to receive reparations (COP15 million each). The first ten people to receive these reparations…