The national ombudsman’s office and human rights leaders across Colombia requested that an autopsy be done on a victims rights activist who allegedly committed suicide on Saturday after recieving numerous…
A Colombian court has ruled that the state must pay over $500,000 to displaced families for failure to protect them from paramilitaries, reported local media Monday. The judicial body, the…
The Colombia government will be unable to provide adequate psychological care for the more than 17,000 children and adolescents displaced in 2012, said an international NGO on Sunday. Fanny Uribe…
Colombia’s government expropriated over three million acres in 2012 in accordance with new land restitution laws, local media reported on Thursday. “We have had over [3.45 million acres] restituted [and] we hope…
The amount of large-scale displacements in Colombia increased 83% in 2012 compared to 2011, said a local NGO on Tuesday. According to a CODHES [Consultancy for Human Rights and Displacement]…
524 indigenous people displaced by Colombia’s ongoing armed conflict will leave Bogota to return to their homes in the western departments of Choco and Risaralda after having reached an agreement…
More than 1,500 people marched Thursday in solidarity with local protests against the new “Tres Cruces” army base in the southwestern Cauca department, reported news agency Prensa Rural and others.…
In recognition of World Refugee Day, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said that “Colombia is Latin America’s largest producer of refugees,” with 396,000 Colombians forced out of their…
Land that was stolen by the late FARC commander Pedro Antonio Marin Marin, alias “Manuel Marulanda Velez,” was finally returned to the Colombian state after being controlled by the guerrilla…