A community leader and human rights defender was killed in southwestern Colombia Saturday after receiving death threats from the neo-paramilitary group “Aguilas Negras.” Miller Angulo was murdered by assassins on…
Colombia’s largest rebel group FARC has broken its unilateral ceasefire attacking soldiers in the southwest of the country, the Colombian army claimed Tuesday. A Colombian Army general told newspaper El…
There is widespread impunity and lack of adequate protection for crimes against Colombia’s displaced women, according to Human Rights Watch (HRW) Wednesday. “Approximately two million internally displaced women and girls face…
There are nearly 250,000 displaced senior citizens in Colombia according to the entity charged with the reparation of victims on Monday, the International Day of the Elderly. Experts from social…
Colombia will meet the target to redress 110,000 victims of the armed conflict two months ahead of schedule, said the director of the government’s victims reparation agency Thursday. According to…
The Colombian state must compensate victims of forced displacement at the hands of the armed forces, the country’s highest administrative court ruled Thursday. The Council of State ruling followed a…
Unidentified men have stolen a computer belonging to a national victims organization containing 4,500 names of displaced land claimants, Caracol Radio reported Thursday. According to the radio station, thieves broke…
Ongoing fighting between Colombia’s armed forces and the FARC in the southwest of the country is causing a “delicate humanitarian situation,” said a local ombudsman Saturday. Since fighting escalated last…
Armed clashes between the Colombian military and the FARC displaced 72 families in the western Colombian department of Cauca, Radio Caracol reported Monday. Fighting occurred in the rural area of…