Deadly violence targeting Colombia’s human rights defenders and community leaders maintained in 2023, according to data by think tank Indepaz. According to the non-governmental organization, 188 social leaders were assassinated…
Think tank Indepaz said on Tuesday that Colombia’s police reported five massacres within 24 hours. The massacres occurred in different parts of the country and cost the lives of 18…
Colombia’s illegal armed groups are increasingly moving their violence from the countryside to the country’s cities, according to a leading think tank on the armed conflict. In its annual report…
Violence in Colombia escalated significantly during the regime of outgoing President Ivan Duque, according to an independent conflict monitor. In a report, conflict monitoring NGO Indepaz confirmed findings by a…
At least 1,000 of Colombia’s human rights defenders and community leaders have been assassinated since the beginning of a peace process in late 2016, according to a conflict monitoring NGO.…
Fifty-nine community leaders and human rights defenders have been assassinated in Colombia in the first four months of this year, according to a think tank. A report by Colombian NGO…
More than 200 social leaders, peasant representatives and human rights defenders have been murdered since the start of Colombia’s peace process, according to a report.
Colombia’s last-standing rebel group, the ELN, continued its territorial expansion in 2017 while talking peace with the government, according to think tank Indepaz. The guerrillas increased its presence from 140 to…
A new push by Colombia’s President to apply pressure to the ongoing peace talks with rebel group FARC is more about political posturing than military or negotiation strategy, according to…