60% of Colombia’s bullied minors contemplate suicide, 19.8% attempt it: NGO study
A study published Friday by a nationally based NGO reported that three in every five bullied adolescents in Colombia consider ending their own lives.
A study published Friday by a nationally based NGO reported that three in every five bullied adolescents in Colombia consider ending their own lives.
An international study revealed that Colombia’s health system spends $2.1 billion a year dealing with the consequences of cigarette smoking, reported local media on Thursday.
Adriana Pulido, 30, is the first blind Colombian to be granted a Fulbright Scholarship to study in the United States. Pulido will study for two years in a master’s program…
A government-sponsored poll conducted in Colombia’s capital found that 63% of Bogota residents are in favor of same-sex marriage, newspaper El Tiempo reports. The telephone poll, conducted between December 2009…
A U.S embassy-run scholarship program in Medellin is giving young, academically-gifted Colombians, displaced by violence in their hometowns, a chance to expand their opportunities. The two-year Access “micro-scholarship,” program, for…
A new study by Bogota’s Manuela Beltran University shows that 20 per cent of Colombia paramilitaries and guerrillas who have laid down their arms are at risk of returning to…
Colombia was ranked as 46th-least stable out of 177 countries in the 2010 “Failed States Index,” compiled by U.S. researchers, an improvement of five places from its 2009 ranking. The…
Colombia is Latin America’s most violent nation, according to the Global Peace Index‘s (GPI) 2010 report, which ranks the Andean nation as the 138th most peaceful nation out of the…
A new study by consulting firm Mercer shows that the quality of life in Bogota has improved in the last two years, reported El Tiempo on Friday. According to Mercer’s…