Almost 800 families from Colombia’s largest port city on the Pacific coast, Buenaventura, are at risk of violence by illegal armed groups, according to the country’s ombudsman. Locals are facing…
Human rights in Colombia face enormous challenges, especially in rural areas, while the country is undergoing a peace process, the United Nations concluded in its annual report on human rights…
A community leader and her husband were brutally murdered near the port city of Buenaventura, their bodies found bruised, beaten and gunshot wounded in a jungle area on Tuesday, reported…
Violence against human rights defenders in Colombia rose 2.4% between 2012 and 2013, according to the online human rights publication “D for Defense.”
Colombia’s State Council has ordered the national government — acting on behalf of the Colombian Army — to pay over $500,000 dollars in damages to the family of a murdered…
Ex-president Alvaro Uribe blames Human Rights Watch for the Colombian government’s rejection of a military prosecution reform bill. The reform bill initially proposed that all acts, including human rights violations,…
Six European Parliament officials, and a Spanish senator, will be in Colombia until the end of January in order to investigate cases of human rights abuse. The officials will meet…
Colombian trade unionists on Wednesday asked the EU not to sign an FTA with Colombia due to the human rights violations they believe to have been committed by the Uribe…
A NGO that monitors gender related violence denounced the murders of several citizens, who were killed because of their sexual orientation in the port town of Buenaventura. Lina Camacho, representative…