Human Rights Watch (HRW) fiercely criticized Colombia’s government for promoting legislation “that would undercut accountability for unlawful killings of civilians by the military, including so-called false positive killings.”
Colombia’s Prosecutor General’s Office has revealed that the number of extrajudicial executions by state agents has risen to 4,382, indicating more than 160 victims have been identified this year, according…
A judge has ordered Colombia’s Ministry of Defense to pay $460,000 to the family of taxi driver killed by soldiers in just one of the thousands of cases of extrajudicial killings by…
Colombia’s leftist opposition on Wednesday asked the government to remove eight generals over their alleged roles in the extrajudicial execution of Colombian civilians.
Several generals in Colombia’s armed forced are being investigated for their past involvement in the “false positives” scandal in which thousands of innocent civilians were murdered by state agents to…
Colombia’s senate discussed a controversial bill Wednesday that would give military courts greater jurisdiction and could increase impunity for the already slow-moving convictions of military atrocities, according to local media.
More than 400 more state agents have been accused of killing civilians within the last year, bringing the total to 4,774.
Twelve experts from the United Nations (UN) have urged the Colombia not to adopt a law which would expand the jurisdiction of military courts, fearing this would lead to impunity for human…
More than 150 death threats have been made against human rights activists, journalists and politicians since the start of September, a record since the start of the peace talks between…