Colombia drops FARC’s mass forced abortion claim after 5 years
A former guerrilla associate was sentenced to 40 years in prison for carrying out forced abortions on former ELN and ERG guerrillas, according to the prosecution, which had blamed the…
A former guerrilla associate was sentenced to 40 years in prison for carrying out forced abortions on former ELN and ERG guerrillas, according to the prosecution, which had blamed the…
Colombia’s recent student protests have booked their first success: the university director who is accused of sexual harassment handed in his resignation. The latest controversial rector of a Barranquilla university…
Judges in northwest Colombia suspended the pending publication of a book about clerical child abuse in the country and threatened to take legal action against the journalist. The book, “Let…
The flagship proposal of Colombia’s President Ivan Duque to introduce life-long prison sentences for child molesters was rejected as “populist” by the Justice Ministry’s criminal policy commission on Tuesday. As…
Colombia’s President Ivan Duque has come under fire for refusing to meet with Nobel Peace Price laureate Denis Mukwege who was on a five-day visit to support victims of sexual…
Journalist Jineth Bedoya of Colombia’s leading newspaper El Tiempo has been awarded the 2019 Press Freedom Grand Prize of the Inter-American Press Association (IAPA). Bedoya, who is currently the managing…
Almost 42% of Colombia’s young adults were victim of physical, sexual or psychological abuse as a child, according to the country’s first ever survey on child abuse. The shocking statistic…
The Inter-American Court of Human Rights announced Tuesday that it will investigate Colombia’s alleged state responsibility in the 2000 rape of journalist Jineth Bedoya. The current deputy editor-in-chief of newspaper…
Reports of sexual violence in Colombia, which is mainly targeting children, has tripled over the past 20 years, according to the Medical Examiner’s Office. According to the office, it conducted…