Colombia’s Congress president on Tuesday urged the rights of conflict victims to urgently be included in ongoing peace talks between the country’s government and rebel group FARC.
Rebel group FARC on Monday demanded that an independent commission analyze Colombia’s armed conflict.
President Juan Manuel Santos said on Wednesday that it is time for Colombia “to start constructing memory based on the truth” after receiving a report on the human cost of…
Colombia’s armed conflict cost the lives of some 220,000 Colombians since 1958, an extensive report on the violence released Wednesday said.
Victims of human rights violations in a former demilitarized zone in the south of Colombia, who failed register their claims within two years of the facts, will not be entitled…
Bogota police on Monday prevented some 150 people who claimed to be victims of displacement from settling on a vacant lot in the south of Colombia’s capital.
A senator of Colombia’s Liberal Party said Thursday that if the country’s largest guerrilla group, the FARC, fails to apologize to the victims of the war, the peace process is…
Colombia’s constitutional court on Friday ordered Congress to include victims of groups emerging from the now-defunct paramilitary organization AUC in legislation granting them rights to compensation.
According to the president of the General Labor Confederation (CGT), 64% of union member murders worldwide take place in Colombia. Speaking to Caracol Radio, Julio Roberto Gomez declared: “this is…