The human right commission of the Organization of American States on Thursday urged Colombia’s authorities to carry out an “exhaustive and independent investigation” of reportedly illegal spying by the army.…
Colombia’s foreign ministry tried to have a hearing before the Inter-American Commission for Human Rights (IACHR) over the country’s war crimes tribunal canceled, but failed. The president of the Special…
The human rights bodies of the United Nations (UN) and the Organization of American States (OAS) urged the government of President Ivan Duque and native Colombians to avoid violence on…
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) has criticized Colombia’s government for its failure to adopt a law that defines the powers of a war crimes tribunal. The IACHR said…
Demobilized FARC guerrillas will ask the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) for protection, citing persistent state failures to comply with a 2016 peace deal, local media reported Sunday. In…
The Colombian state was found guilty of human rights offenses during a 2002 military operation in the country’s second biggest city Medellin by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR)…
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) ordered Colombia to take action against extreme poverty in northern Colombia where more than 4,000 indigenous children have died of malnutrition in the past eight years.
The mayor of a Colombian city located on the border with Venezuela sued Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) for violating Colombians’ human rights.
After a week of escalating tensions between Colombia and Venezuela, the United Nations called on the two neighbors to maintain “constructive dialogue” while the Organization of American States called a special meeting for…