A disinformation campaign claiming that small farmers will lose their land as a result of efforts to return stolen land to their rightful owners is causing unrest in northern Colombia.…
Colombia is expanding its land restitution program into former no-go areas in the country’s war-torn south aiming to return land stolen from farmers by illegal armed groups, the government has…
Senators with ties to large landowners have proposed a change to the Colombia’s Victims Law that would make it much harder for displaced farmers to reclaim land stolen by paramilitaries and sold…
Colombia’s land restitution process is failing to adequately process the return of land to victims of displacement and is now facing severe criticism from both NGOs and political movements.
Ranchers who allegedly used paramilitary death squads to steal lands by displacing its rightful owners are now saying they are victims of the government’s land restitution program. Returning farmers say they…
A group of indigenous have been attacked by a rancher’s 60-man private army in an attempt to remove them from land in northwest Colombia from where they had been displaced, local media reported.
Colombia’s government aims to buy land from private owners and redistribute it among the poor after its 50-year-old war ends, the agriculture minister said Sunday, addressing the root cause of the…
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos promised to process 35% of the total applications for land restitution within a year. Could this be a hopeful change for the heavily criticized process?
Amnesty International (AI) on Thursday accused the Colombian government of allowing powerful corporate giants to plunder the country while six million citizens remain displaced, and more continue to be forced…