Colombia’s Defense Minister, Juan Carlos Pinzon, will introduce a new small-scale military justice plan giving soldiers and other members of the armed forces easy access to legal services to help…
What role and oversight should the military have? This question has a long and loaded history in Latin America[1]. Argentina, Chile, Brasil and Uruguay experienced some of the longest and…
One of the judges of Colombia’s Supreme Court of the Judiciary, Henry Villarraga, is being investigated for allegedly receiving a bribe to vote for a ‘false positive’ suspect’s case to be…
Human Rights Watch has called the high court’s decision to strike down Colombia’s military justice reform bill a “major victory for human rights,” while Amnesty International has warned that it…
In a landmark ruling that is unappealable, Colombia’s Constitutional Court on Wednesday struck down a military justice reform that according to human rights groups would have given war criminals impunity.…
Human Rights Watch (HRW), an international NGO dedicated to preserving and protecting human rights across the world, on Monday released a letter insisting that the EU renege its tentative support of Colombia’s…
Colombia’s defense minister on Thursday vowed that more than 3,000 pending cases of extrajudicial killings by the military will not be transferred to military tribunals.
Colombia’s congress approved a controversial bill that expands the authority of military tribunals over crimes committed by members of the same military. The military justice reform was approved in the…
Colombia’s largest rebel group FARC on Tuesday said that the judiciary does not have the “competence” to judge members of the organization.