A state run human rights organization on Wednesday warned that a small town in the north eastern department of Norte de Santander is under imminent risk of invasion by rebel group…
On the same day the United Nations announced that Peru had surpassed Colombia as the world’s leading producer of coca, both countries signed the UN’s Arms Trade Treaty, created earlier…
A coalition of environmentalists and human rights groups denounced the Colombian government’s efforts to expand mining in the Santurban Paramo, in a letter introduced in the 24th session of the…
The Prosecutor General’s (PG) office on Thursday refuted the latest report by Human Rights Watch, an international NGO which claimed insufficient action was being taken against those responsible for forced…
Amnesty International (AI) on Tuesday urged the government to halt the activities of paramilitaries in north western Colombia, claiming that there is an imminent threat of forced displacement in the…
A former Colombian army general on Wednesday was charged with the homicide of three men as part of the “false positives” scandal, when civilians were murdered and dressed up as…
If FARC guerrillas receive reduced sentences in the wake of an eventual peace deal with Colombia’s government then retired members of the country’s security forces should too, according to the…
Some 5000 people marched through the west Colombian town of Manizales on Monday to celebrate the country’s National Human Rights Day.
Two former colonels of Colombia’s National Army were sentenced to 19 years in prison Monday for conspiring with paramilitary commanders to assassinate civilians to inflate his unit’s apparent effectiveness.