A drug trafficking route from Colombia’s central coffee zone stretching all the way to the Pacific coast is increasing violence in the region, according to a Colombian human rights organization.…
A Colombian human rights NGO on Monday criticized Juan Manuel Santos’ commitment to human rights while he was serving as defense minister from 2006 to 2009. “The national government and…
NGO Human Rights Watch says that moves by U.S. Congress members to ensure that Colombia meets human rights standards before the trade deal is ratified are “critically important,” in a…
Colombian Congressman Ivan Cepeda alleges that state intelligence agency DAS had detailed plans to discredit the NGO Movimiento de Victimas de Crimenes de Estado (The Movement for Victims of Crimes…
On International Women’s Day, the United Nations warns about abuses carried out against women in Colombia by neo-paramilitary gangs, and launches the Colombia branch of U.N. Women. According to a…
The Colombian state is failing to protect human rights defenders despite making a commitment to do so, according to the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights (IACHR), a body of the…
Colombia’s prosecutor general names attorney Elba Beatriz Silva Vargas as the new director of the Justice and Peace Unit, the government body which administers the demobilization of paramilitaries, Colombian media…
A man left the remains of his son, an army sergeant, on Bogota‘s central Bolivar square Sunday. The man claims his son was executed by colleagues in 2006 when he…
Colombian mayors’ and ranchers’ associations warn that security has deteriorated in the country, in direct contradiction of President Santos’ claim that it is improving, El Espectador reported Friday. Gilberto Toro,…