Colombia’s comptroller general warned the State that mining operations in places of past and present armed conflict could impede the land restitution process set forth in President Juan Manuel Santos’…
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos on Wednesday offered a $27,300 reward for details on the culprits that threatened eight journalists in the north of the country.
Colombia has the highest level of internal displacement in the world, according to latest figures released by the global Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC).
A land restitution NGO in northern Colombia reported on Friday that they are receiving threats, and that one young displaced man was assassinated.
Colombian police announced on Thursday a ‘hunting group’ against criminals threatening the return of land to conflict victims, following a string of murders against land restitution activists.
Colombia’s president Wednesday offered a reward of $110,000 for information leading to the capture of those who “threaten and murder leaders of victims and re-claimants of land.”
The Colombian government on Thursday said that 70% of the land earmarked for land restitution is affected by landmines.
The UN’s Colombian Office for the High Commissioner of Human Rights spoke out against the murder of Ever Cordero Oviedo, a land restitution activists, and demanded punitive action.
A Colombian land restitution activist was assassinated on Tuesday in the northern Cordoba department. Ever Antonio Cordero, a land restitution activist working with Fundacion Forjando Futuros in the municipality of…