More than 1,500 displaced Colombians have seen their stolen lands returned in the last 13 months, according to the government whose restitution program has internationally been criticized for its alleged…
Colombia’s government said Wednesday that land lost during armed conflicts would be returned to indigenous groups, beginning with the Embera Katio in the northwest of the country.
Sweden’s Ambassador to Colombia, Marie Andersson, presented a program Tuesday that will contribute over $6 million dollars to a program that seeks to return displaced farmers to their stolen lands.
Colombia in 2013 once again received a failing grade on human rights, a problem made worse by the justice system’s impunity for human rights abusers, and slow progress on victim…
Colombia police said Thursday they have captured an ex-paramilitary considered to be one of the main threats to the State’s land restitution process.
A representative from the Prosecutor General’s Office painted a bleak picture of the current state of Colombia’s national reparation program, aimed at compensating victims of the country’s decades-long internal armed conflict.
Victims should be involved in ongoing peace talks between the government and guerrilla group FARC said the head of the department charged with the legal protection of civil and human…
The Colombian Justice Ministry on Thursday allocated four rural estates seized by the government from prominent criminal organizations to families forcibly removed from their lands. In an unprecedented ruling, the…
A new report highlights the failures and shortcomings of recent attempts at land restitution in two of the northern Uraba region’s most vulnerable communities. The report stated political will is…