Colombia’s constitutional court strengthened the powers of country’s war crimes tribunal on Friday by, among other things, limiting the possibility to extradite war crime suspects. The court revised the statutory…
Colombia’s war crimes tribunal has called 31 former guerrilla commanders of the FARC to trial over their alleged role in the kidnapping of thousands of people, the court announced Friday.…
Colombia’s senate reduced the capacities of a war crimes tribunal that seeks justice for millions of victims of the country’s armed conflict with the FARC. The limitations imposed on the…
The United Nations called on Colombia to “urgently remove the obstacles” impeding a war crimes tribunal or risk being called out on failures to comply with an ongoing peace process.…
Colombia’s war crimes tribunal is stuck in Congress over the more than 4,500 homicides committed by the military when Senator Alvaro Uribe was president. The Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP)…
Colombia’s election are barely over and the future of the country’s war crimes tribunal that seeks to provide justice for millions of victims is already uncertain. At the request of…
Colombia’s congress has suspended debates over the country’s war crimes tribunal at the request of president-elect Ivan Duque. The United Nations last week asked Congress to move forward with the…
Colombia’s president-elect Ivan Duque can’t “modify” a peace deal with FARC rebels as easily as he would like. The rejection of the peace deal signed with the Marxist FARC guerrillas…
A year after FARC rebels demobilized, Colombia’s Congress has yet to vote on the war crimes tribunal’s powers. The legislative branch’s indecision has caused a crisis in the judicial branch.…