International human rights watchdog Amnesty International says in its annual The State of the World’s Human Rights report that Colombian government security forces, paramilitaries, and guerrillas are all guilty of serious…
A group of human rights activists, NGOs, and American and Colombian citizens held a rally in front of the White House in Washington D.C. Monday evening to call to attention…
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 group of around ninety displaced Colombians have taken over an abandoned property in Bogota in protest over the government’s inaction towards their lack of housing. On Tuesday, at three…
The governor of Colombia’s Norte de Santander department on Wednesday warned of a crisis brewing along the Venezuelan border, as huge numbers of Colombians flee the Bolivarian nation to escape…
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…
Ongoing fighting between the Colombian army and the FARC in the southern department of Cauca left one civilian seriously injured and forced 150 to abandon their homes, reports human rights…
The recent threats against three Colombian human rights activists form part of an ongoing campaign to publicly discredit and smear their work of protecting Afro-Colombian communities in the Choco region,…
Spokespeople for communities displaced from their homes on Colombia’s Caribbean coast say that the return of these people to their homes is too slow, due to a lack of government…