Human rights activists in Colombia are being persecuted and subjected to arbitrary arrest by state security agents, Margaret Sekaggya, U.N. special rapporteur on human rights defenders, said on Friday. Victims…
Margaret Sekaggya, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders, expressed her support for Colombian Human Rights NGOs Wednesday. The UN rapporteur attended the start in…
The United Nations has sent a rapporteur to Colombia to investigate the situation of human rights workers in the country. Margaret Sekaggya, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights…
Around 700 people were displaced by clashes between the FARC and ELN over territory in El Charco, Nariño department, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in…
The situation of indigenous tribes in Colombia is critical considering the rising number of assassinations of the community’s members, the United Nations said Thursday. “In the first half of 2009,…
Colombia has until October to improve its policies on displacement, the representative of the UN refugee agency told newspaper El Tiempo. According to the UNCHR representative in Colombia, Jean-Noel Wetterwald,…
