Colombia’s ombudsman warns of neo-paramilitary expansion
Colombia’s Ombudsman announced on Tuesday that paramilitary successor groups are active in approximately 15% of the country’s national territory, spread out over 27 of 32 states.
Colombia’s Ombudsman announced on Tuesday that paramilitary successor groups are active in approximately 15% of the country’s national territory, spread out over 27 of 32 states.
Government officials reached an agreement with protesters in southwestern Colombia Tuesday that will suspend an eight-day civic strike in the region, according to the national Ombudsman’s Office.
The Ombudsman’s office, the highest governmental human rights agency, has provided 2,700 staff to oversee and help out with the 2014 presidential elections on Sunday, according to a press release.
Colombia’s highest government human rights official has issued a statement highlighting 136 municipalities that face “extreme” and “high risk” of violence from armed groups during the upcoming second round of…
Hundreds of displacement victims were cleared from Bogota’s Plaza Bolivar, where they had been gathering in act of protest, national media reported Wednesday.
Nearly 40,000 indigenous people are being affected by a “famine” in Colombia’s arid northern state of La Guajira, an issue exacerbated by the closure of the nearby Venezuelan border, according…
The Colombian Ombudman’s Office said Thursday that the FARC violated its month-long unilateral ceasefire despite displaying a marked decrease in violence, according to Colombian W Radio.
Colombia’s President Juan Manuel Santos has signed an order imposing fundamental changes to both Colombia’s Ombudsman’s Office and Prosecutor General’s Office Friday, in what he has declared “will have direct…