As evidence and claims mounted that an anti-narcotics unit killed 15 coca growers in Colombia’s worst massacre in years, President Juan Manuel Santos on Friday said that “our public force…
The Selection Committee for Colombia’s new transitional justice system announced Tuesday the names of 51 magistrates who will investigate and try some of the country’s most serious war criminals. Although…
Colombia’s security forces have had at least twenty-one major clashes with coca farmers in the past year amid claims the government is breaking agreements made with farmers through a new…
Colombia’s war criminals will soon be tried in a transitional justice tribunal that will seek justice for many of the country’s victims of war crimes. Unlike the common punitive justice…
The silent, but persistent and deadly attacks on social leaders and human rights defenders has claimed another life in southern Colombia, pushing the number of leaders killed during the peace…
Combat between Colombia’s security forces and an unidentified illegal armed group forced some 240 locals to flee their homes in the northeast of the country, according to the United Nations.…
Members of Colombia’s feared ESMAD riot unit must take compulsory courses in human rights, the country’s State Council ordered while convicting the unit for killing a student during a protest.…
Colombia has the fourth highest rate of child homicides in the world, according to a report released on Thursday from London-based NGO “Save the Children.” The South American country was ranked…
The European Union envoy to Colombia’s peace process has urged the government to provide “maximum protection” to social and community leaders, more than 30 of whom have been assassinated since the…