Candidate debate focuses on displacement and tax
Forced displacement and taxation were the focus of one of the final debates between Colombian presidential candidates before the nation goes to the polls on Sunday May 30. In the debate,…
Forced displacement and taxation were the focus of one of the final debates between Colombian presidential candidates before the nation goes to the polls on Sunday May 30. In the debate,…
A group of unknown assailants stabbed Marco Romero, the director of CODHES, a Colombian NGO that campaigns for human rights and against forced displacement, while he was walking through central Bogota…
A debate among presidential candidates on forced displacement in Colombia was canceled by its organizers on Tuesday due to a “lack of interest” from the candidates, reports Colombian NGO CODHES. The…
Forced displacement of Colombian citizens increases by 150,000 people a year, Ariranga Govindasamy Pillay, one of 18 experts from the United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR) said…
Father Oscar Alberto Ortiz Henao, a priest in the San Antonio de Prado municipality near Medellin, central Colombia, was arrested Sunday, on charges of serving as second-in-command of a local paramilitary group.…
Of the 4.9 million Colombians that have been forcefully displaced in the last 25 years, 2.4 million were displaced under the presidency of Alvaro Uribe and his “Democratic Security” policy,…
The Panamerican Health Organization (PHO) confirmed the forced displacement forty-five families in the Charco municipality in the southern department of Nariño last Monday. This is the seventh forced displacement in…
The International Criminal Court asked Colombian judicial authorities to provide information on 48 criminal cases that remain unresolved after several years. A report by the ICJ outlines numerous cases that…