Displaced leader assassinated on Medellin bus
A leader of victims of forced displacement is assassinated Tuesday while traveling on a bus in Colombia’s second largest city Medellin. According to several media, community leader Ana Fabricia Cordoba…
A leader of victims of forced displacement is assassinated Tuesday while traveling on a bus in Colombia’s second largest city Medellin. According to several media, community leader Ana Fabricia Cordoba…
The Colombian Government vowed to begin the process of returning land to displaced farmers on Friday, when President Juan Manuel Santos sanctions a law that will grant rights to victims…
President Juan Manuel Santos signed a decree intended to speed up the funding of reconstruction projects after the worst rainy season in the country’s history. The presidential website announced that…
Guerrilla groups FARC and ELN have committed serious violations of international human rights law, observed Colombia’s UN office on Human Rights. The Colombia Office of the UN High Commission for…
Six hundred thousand children have been displaced by the rainy season in Colombia, said the Organization of American States (OAS) Thursday. Pablo Gonzales, risk reduction director for the OAS, reported…
Eighty families of peasants and ex-AUC members in the municipality of Unguia, Choco department, have been displaced by alleged members of the FARC’s 57th Front, newspaper El Espectador reported Monday.…
The malignant effect of criminal gangs on the lives of civilians in Colombia has become the leading concern for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Terra reported Thursday.…
A farming community displaced three times has demanded protection for its recently returned land in the north of Colombia, Caracol Radio reported Monday. The group of 123 families has recently…
Prosecutor General Viviane Morales is “surprised” by the Defense Ministry’s creation of a new special unit to deal with the investigations of displaced leaders’ murders, newspaper El Tiempo reported Tuesday. “Every day…