An Ombudsman official in western Colombia has received a death threat from unknown persons, El Espectador reported Thursday. According to the local newspaper, an official in the Buenaventura Ombudsman’s office…
Colombia’s Ombudsman has warned of a serious humanitarian crisis in the southwest corner of the country, local media reported Wednesday. According to newspaper El Espectador, Ombudsman Jorge Armando Otalora complained…
The UN Commissioner for Human Rights in Colombia has called on the country’s government Friday to choose an ombudsman with “high morals and ethics” in the elections next week. UN…
Nearly 62,000 people have been disappeared in Colombia, announced the country’s ombudsman on Tuesday, the International Day of the Disappeared. The Commission for the Search for Disappeared Persons, a division…
Between “8,000 and 11,000 children have been forcibly recruited” to take part in one of Colombia’s armed groups, the country’s ombudsman said Wednesday. Civilian organizations and the Ombudsman’s Office added…
Displacements within Medellin may double by the end of 2011 compared with 2010 figures, due to increasing criminal activity and violence, reported the city’s ombudsman. According to a report issued…
The government introduced a bill to provide legal defense for members of the security forces accused of crimes, El Espectador reported Wednesday. Defense Minister Rodrigo Rivera, who introduced the initiative…
The current ombudsman of Bogota, Francisco Rojas Birry, has been accused of courting the support of paramilitaries in his 1998 senate election campaign, Caracol reported Thursday. Rojas Birry, who is…
Ombudsman Volmar Perez on Monday expressed concern about the massacres that have recently taken place across the country. Ortiz spoke following the murder of 11 people in two separate massacres on Sunday…