Colombia’s family welfare institute (ICBF) confirmed claims that illegal armed groups have recruited hundreds of children and teenagers during the peace process that began in late 2016. According to newspaper…
After a year of inaction, Colombia’s Family Welfare Institute (ICBF) promised to help an indigenous community on the border with Venezuela after footage of children eating from a garbage dump…
Estela looks down at her hands and her eyes easily well up with tears. She has shed so many over the last 31 years regarding the whereabouts of her daughter,…
Approximately 7,000 “community mothers” began an indefinite strike on Monday, amid ongoing concerns over the deteriorating humanitarian situation of the poorest of Colombia’s children.
Cristina Plazas, the director of Colombia’s child welfare agency, was supposed to get married on Friday, but didn’t because her fiance spent the intended wedding day in custody on corruption charges.
Colombia’s Family Welfare Institute received fresh corruption allegations on Monday as it was revealed that children in their care are being fed on restaurant leftovers.
An 11-year-old girl from the southwestern Colombian city of Cali nearly died after her father fed her 104 capsules filled with drugs before traveling abroad, local media reported Tuesday.
Local police are still searching for 21 girls who remain missing after escaping a residential facility for troubled youth in central Colombia Tuesday.
Nearly 5,500 children recruited by illegal armed groups in Colombia as members and fighters have since demobilized or escaped from a life of armed violence and now face the real…