Tag: forced disappearances
Colombia searching for 84 people who were ‘disappeared’ during protests
Colombia’s prosecution said Wednesday that it was investigating the disappearance of 84...
Medellin’s rise in forced disappearances overshadows drop in homicides
Medellin’s local rag on Thursday rejoiced that the rich part of Colombia’s second...
Medellin’s homicides finally dropped in 2019, but what about the 294 who went missing?
Medellin was finally able to lower the number of homicides in 2019 after a year-long increase, but...
Medellin energy company called to appear before war crimes tribunal
Colombia’s war crimes tribunal will return to Medellin in October to learn why the...
Colombia’s former FARC rebels so far delivered information on 276 missing persons
Colombia’s Search Unit for Missing Persons said Monday that demobilized FARC guerrillas have...
Forced disappearances
More than 150,000 people were disappeared during Colombia’s half-a-century armed conflict,...
Colombia begins search for 126,000 missing persons with $15 million deficit
More than two years into a peace process, Colombia’s transitional justice system is finally...
FARC reveals locations of remains of 182 victims who were forcibly disappeared by guerrillas
Former FARC guerrillas gave International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) new information on the...
Red Cross bashes Colombia for still not searching for its 80,000 missing persons
The Red Cross (ICRC) asked Colombia’s government on Wednesday to prioritize the search for...
Who cares that more than 80,000 families in Colombia are searching for their missing loved ones?
The number of civilians killed in Colombia’s armed conflict could be 30% higher than...
Red Cross urges increased efforts in Colombia to find missing persons
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) urged Colombia’s state and illegal armed...
The horrors of Colombia’s war – How to ‘disappear’ 1 person every 36 minutes
Almost 61,000 Colombians have been forcibly disappeared between 1970 and 2015, primarily by...
