A proposed constitutional reform currently before the Colombian Congress would “undermine justice” by handing an undue amount of power to the military, according to the United Nations on Monday. Senior…
Excluding those responsible for human rights abuses, Colombia’s Congress promises that members of the FARC, the group responsible for thousands of deaths, kidnappings, forced disappearances and forced displacements, will not go…
42 different indigenous Colombian populations are at risk of disappearing due to state abandonment, said an indigenous foundation on Tuesday. In an interview with W Radio Tuesday, the director of the…
Colombia’s President Juan Manuel Santos formally apologized to the indigenous people of the Amazon on Friday for massacres that occurred in the early 1900’s during the rubber boom. On Latin America’s “Dia…
After enduring a history of killings and disappearances committed by armed actors of the paramilitary and the State, a special protection program for surviving members of the Patriotic Union and…
The mayor of Colombia’s capital Bogota, Gustavo Petro, is promoting gender tolerance through this week’s celebration of “Sexual Diversity and Gender Identity.” Starting Thursday Bogota’s District Department of Social Integration…
Human rights groups have asked the European Union to reject a free trade pact with Colombia citing the country’s continued human rights violations as the reason, reported Radio Caracol Wednesday.…
Colombia’s Comptroller General was accused of overstepping her authority by not allowing “men over the age of 58 and women over 48-years to work in public office,” said a citizens’…
Hundreds of crimes against unionists, including murders and disappearances, during former President Alvaro Uribe’s administration have been asked to be investigated. Several entities including the European Center for Constitutional and Human…