Colombia’s constitutional court pushed the expiration date of the country’s 2011 Victims law to 2030 after state failures to compensate victims and return stolen land. Former Interior Minister and peace…
Colombia’s president Ivan Duque announced on Friday he would propose a 10-year extension of the law that seeks to return stolen land and help victims of the armed conflict, putting…
Unless Colombia’s government makes radical policy changes, it will be able to compensate 20% or less of victims of the country’s armed conflict victims, according to a high-level commission. According…
European lawmakers sent a letter to Colombia’s congress in which they rejected plans to complicate war victims’ efforts to reclaim land the size of Belgium that was dispossessed during the…
Not considering the tremendous human cost, Colombia’s 52-year war between the state, leftist guerrillas and right-wing paramilitary groups has cost the country $151 billion, according to a recently released study. According…
Colombia’s government has barely compensated millions of war victims of armed conflict, according to a damning report of governmental watchdogs. A commission of delegates of the Inspector General’s Office, the Comptroller General’s…
Senators with ties to large landowners have proposed a change to the Colombia’s Victims Law that would make it much harder for displaced farmers to reclaim land stolen by paramilitaries and sold…
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos promised to process 35% of the total applications for land restitution within a year. Could this be a hopeful change for the heavily criticized process?
Amnesty International (AI) on Thursday accused the Colombian government of allowing powerful corporate giants to plunder the country while six million citizens remain displaced, and more continue to be forced…