Colombia has the seventh highest number of registered refugees living outside its borders, according to a recent report from the United Nations Agency for Refugees (UNHCR). Between 1997 and 2011,…
The Colombian official implicated in the 1989 murder of a presidential candidate will evoke his statute of limation rights when asking the Supreme Court to throw out his case this week,…
Four Colombian men who had been arrested by Venezuelan armed forces on the border said Saturday they were tortured while in custody. The four were part a group of ten…
The president of Colombia’s Senate promised to introduce new amendments to a proposed constitutional reform seeking to give legal benefits to demobilized armed actors, after meeting with Human Rights Watch…
European trade ministers formally approved a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with Colombia and Peru on Thursday, paving the way for the European Parliament to sign off on the deal in…
Colombia’s Constitutional Court ruled that an individual cannot be barred from giving blood based on their sexual orientation, reported local media Tuesday. “The risk of contamination depends on risk behavior,…
Colombia’s defunct communist party may soon revive, due to a lawsuit claiming it met its end through “political genocide,” Colombian sources reported. The Patriotic Union (UP) party lost legal status…
Colombia’s Constitutional Court ruled Friday the government cannot restrict gay couples’ freedom to express affection in public. The ruling comes after two men in Cali were forced to leave a mall…
A United States report on human rights in Colombia is “unfair” and fails to recognize Colombia’s progress, the foreign minister told local media. “There is so much injustice” in human…