Colombia’s intelligence agency DAS planned a smear campaign to discredit NGOs working for Colombia’s displaced citizens, El Espectador has discovered in classified DAS reports. The plan intended to send undercover DAS…
The Colombian Federation of Journalists (FECOLPER) has scheduled a march to protest recurrent death threats made against journalists by criminal bands. According to Spanish news agency EFE, members of FECOLPER,…
Neo-paramilitary group the “Aguilas Negras” have recently distributed pamphlets threatening journalists, lawyers, trade unionists and political leaders in the Caribbean coastal city of Barranquilla, media reported Monday. The group’s Central…
Colombia on Friday rejected a decision by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights to maintain the country on its human rights blacklist and called for the OAS body to analyze…
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) has maintained Colombia on its “black list,” due to continued concern over the country’s human rights situation, in the organization’s 2010 annual human…
Colombia’s Constitutional Court has approved an amendment to the Civil Code which now allows same-sex couples and unmarried life partners to inherit their partner’s assets in the case of their…
With Santos’ visit to Washington, a “road map” for improving Colombia’s human rights situation has been set, which ultimately aims at the approval of the FTA, at long last. But,…
The lawyer of Walid Makled asked Colombia to demand that Venezuela protects his client’s safety as President Chavez begins his state visit to Colombia, local media reported Saturday. Defense lawyer…
Death threats against Colombian journalists have increased over the past six months, according to the Inter American Press Association report. While noting that in the past six months there were…