A report released over the weekend by Oxfam International concluded that some 48,915 children under the age of 18 have been victims of sexual violence during the course of Colombia’s…
Colombia will not attend a hearing of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) scheduled for Monday in Washington over the impeachment of Bogota Mayor Gustavo Petro.
Residents of Buenaventura, Colombia’s biggest port city, plan to protest against the extreme violence that has taken over the Pacific area despite recent government attempts to control the issue, local…
The US Department of State has criticized Colombia for an inefficient judiciary, forced displacement, corruption, and social discrimination in its annual Human Rights Report on Thursday.
Violence against human rights defenders in Colombia rose 2.4% between 2012 and 2013, according to the online human rights publication “D for Defense.”
The Colombian Foreign Ministry has joined a number of nations across the world in expressing “deep” concerns over the recent violent clashes that has gripped the eastern European country of…
The figures come from the first “Mining Compass” report conducted and presented by the National Consulting Centre in Colombia during the third annual congress of Large-Scale Mining in the city…
Colombia offered “permanent training” in human rights and landmine programs to countries of the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) during a meeting on Thursday, according to the Colombian Defense…
Human right defenders shave sent a letter to Colombia President Juan Manuel Santos and the commander of the country’s second largest rebel group ELN urging them to sit down and…