The local Ombudsman for Colombia’s Meta department said Thursday that the national government is not doing anything to protect sixteen spokesmen for displaced communities, following a rise in death threats…
A report released by Cordoba’s education secretary reveals that some 1,000 children did not return to school this year after their families were displaced by conflict in the northern Colombian…
Leaders of an indigenous Wayuu community in the northern Colombian municipality of Riohacha are calling for human rights abuses committed by police against the community in January to be investigated,…
Colombian President Alvaro Uribe on Saturday said he was confident that some 120,000 of the country’s estimated three million displaced people will return home this year. According to Uribe, 60,000…
Two Afro-Colombian community leaders in Cauca were killed by unknown assassins on January 21 and 22, human rights group CODHES announced on Friday. Jose Felix Orejuela, a teacher, and Milton…
Colombia’s Constitutional Court has asked the mayors of the country’s three biggest cities, Bogota, Medellin and Cali, to testify on the state of care for people displaced by the country’s…
“The primary necessity is for Colombia to acknowledge that it has a conflict,” declared the Bogota Mayor Wednesday at a forum on challenges facing Colombia’s cities. During the forum, held…
About 75 people of ethnic Zenú origin have fled fighting raging in their ethnic lands to neighboring municipalities in northern Colombia Since 2006 the Early Warning System of the Ombudsman’s…
Reductions of up to 60% in funding for communities displaced by violence in Colombia were revealed by the country’s Constitutional Court on Wednesday. Judicial authorities have been making continuous assessments…