Colombia’s military lobby organization ACORE is “blackmailing” President Juan Manuel Santos so generals involved in war crimes be exempt from justice, according to a United States former ambassador. In a recent interview with newspaper El…
Colombia on Tuesday denied claims made by the United Nations human rights chief that 41 social activists have been killed in the country so far this year. UN’s High Commissioner…
The United Nations said Monday that an increase in the killing of political activists and community leaders in Colombia after the demobilization of FARC guerrillas is “very alarming,” according to the…
Human Rights Watch on Monday urged Colombia to effectively protect community activists and social leaders who have been subjected to death threats and assassinations amid the country’s peace process. “Peace and…
Luis Carlos Galan was a Colombian journalist and popular Liberal Party presidential candidate who was killed in 1989 at the order of drug lord Pablo Escobar. An outspoken opponent of drug trafficking, Galan…
Colombia’s Prosecutor General’s Office is investigating 15 former state security officials for the 1990 assassination of the presidential candidate they were supposed to protect. The 15 former bodyguards of now-defunct intelligence agency DAS allegedly helped…
With at least 23 social leaders killed in three months of peace with the FARC, community leaders are terrified they are at the dawn of a wave of paramilitary violence…
For the first time in seven years, no journalist has been killed in Colombia for reasons related to their work in 2016. Nevertheless, acts of aggression increased dramatically. According to…
As many as 117 social leaders and human rights defenders were murdered in Colombia in 2016, according to conflict-monitoring NGO Indepaz. The number of homicides of rights leaders registered by the…