Social leaders traveled from Colombia to Washington DC this week to meet with the Inter-American Commission for Human Rights (IACHR) and US officials to seek protection after the assassination of…
American filmmaker Oliver Stone has criticized Colombia’s ruling party, claiming the country is more dangerous than Venezuela and that he would be assassinated if he were a citizen there. The…
Another social leader has been murdered in Colombia – bringing the death toll of activists to over 80 this year in a wave of killings the authorities seem unable or…
Colombia is seeing a resurgence of violence and death threats against trade unionists, according to labor rights organization Escuela Nacional Sindical (ENS). So far in 2018, 14 trade unionists have been…
Colombia’s private sector is using death squads to assassinate social leaders who seek the return of stolen land, according to the country’s prosecution. Authorities have long claimed that drug traffickers…
Colombia’s President Ivan Duque on Sunday promised extra measures to curb the mass killing of social leaders that have escalated further after his election in June. Since 2016, the year…
Colombia’s president Ivan Duque is reconsidering the nomination of a hard-right ally to run the agency in charge of protecting threatened social and opposition leaders. The conservative new president proposed…
Colombia’s prosecution announced on Wednesday that it has opened a hotline for journalists, social leaders and human rights defenders who receive death threats. The hotline was opened after foreign governments…
Colombian authorities are preparing for a chaotic presidential inauguration day on Tuesday with opposition protests set to coincide with Ivan Duque’s ascension to power. At the very moment Duque climbs…