Colombia court dumps 1920 law banning foreign ‘idiots’
Colombia’s Constitutional Court has dumped a law prohibiting foreign “idiots”...
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Panama lawmaker angers Colombia over xenophobic slur
Colombia’s Foreign Ministry said she will write a formal letter of rejection to her...
Colombia LGBTI community celebrates big day for trans rights
Two high court decisions handed down in Bogota Tuesday fell firmly in favor of their transgender...
Bogota mayor works to end discrimination against sex workers
Bogota’s Mayor Gustavo Petro has spoken out about the discrimination against sex workers in...
Colombia’s transgender community demands end to ‘exclusion and segregation’ of military service requirement
Colombia’s LBGTI community is attempting to eliminate the existing requirement...
US moving in right direction on Afro-Colombians
The United States and Colombia are holding the first meeting on the U.S.-Colombia Action Plan on...
Bogota lawmaker apologizes for referring to lesbians as ‘sluts’
A Bogota councillor who is facing criminal charges for referring to lesbians as...
1,500 Colombian refugees flee to Ecuador every month
Around 1,500 Colombians every month, some 18,000 per year, flee to neighboring Ecuador in order to escape the armed conflict in the country, where they face xenophobia and uncertaintly over their futures, Spanish news agency EFE...
Racist Cartagena nightclubs to pay compensation
The Constitutional Court ordered two well-known Cartagena nightclubs to pay two women who they denied entry to because of the color of their skin Caracol Radio reported Friday. Two sisters, Johana and Lena Acosta Romero, filed...
Jailed ex-Bogota official claims discrimination by prison authorities
An imprisoned former Bogota official, accused of involvement in the public works corruption scandal, claims he has been discriminated against by prison authorities, La W Radio reported Thursday. Innocencio Melendez, the former...
Racism rife in Bogota
Racist undercurrents, discrimination and segregation are still plaguing the Colombian capital of Bogota, newspaper El Espectador reported Saturday. In the International Year of African Descendants, the news comes as a blow to a...
Women treated as spoils of war in Colombia: NGOs
Colombian NGOs have condemned the “high level” of violence against black, indigenous and poor women in a country where the female body has become a “battleground”, W Radio reported Friday. This was the...
