Business owners who voluntarily financed Colombia’s illegal armed groups like the far-left FARC and the far-right AUC face criminal charges in a post-conflict tribunal. Extortion victims will not be charged, the government assured amid unrest…
Reporting on a Colombia’s peace process with FARC rebels has really only just begun. The hard part, reporting on possible misgivings and irregularities in the pending process, are only now emerging.…
Electoral observers are warning that more than one in five of Colombia’s municipalities are at risk of electoral fraud during a pending plebiscite on ongoing peace talks with the FARC. The Electoral Observation…
The Colombian government and FARC guerrillas on Friday unveiled the independent mechanism they have negotiated for selecting judges for special peace tribunals, a process in which they will seek to…
“The worst thing is that you can’t have a baby,” Andrea told Human Rights Watch when we interviewed her in 2002. Andrea was describing her time as a 11-year-old girl…
Days after two polls indicated that the majority of Colombians oppose a peace deal with far-left rebel group FARC, a new poll indicates public opinion has flipped to favor the…
The Secretary General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-Moon has called on Argentina to provide more observers for Colombia’s pending peace process with leftist FARC rebels. The Secretary General met with…
Delegates from Colombia’s national government, the FARC and the United Nations began making technical visits to designated demobilization sites on Monday as the rebels prepare to surrender their weapons in the…
If Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos wants to close peace with the FARC, he best begin campaigning hard as a second poll confirmed that the majority of voters rejects the current peace…
