A total of 160 billion pesos (US$80 million) is to be distributed throughout December among some 10,000 victims of Colombia’s armed conflict. The December initiative is expected to involve the…
Victims of rape perpetrated by paramilitaries demobilized in Colombia’s Justice and Peace process will be first to receive reparations (COP15 million each). The first ten people to receive these reparations…
Investigators of Colombia’s Prosecutor General’s Office exhumed the remains of 31 victims of guerilla groups in 15 municipalities, judicial sources said Wednesday. In San Luis municipality, prosecutors of the national…
Ecuador’s government has issued refugee visas to over 16,000 displaced Colombians in provinces bordering Colombia, the Foreign Ministry announced in a statement Thursday. A survey, launched in March, is currently…
Colombian prosecutors impeded the delivery of 10 corpses of people who died while kidnapped by the leftist FARC guerrillas, the newspaper El Espectador reported Friday. Gustavo Adolfo Muñoz, director of…
The Ecuadorean government registered about 3,000 new Colombian refugees displaced by internal violence in the past one and a half months, the Ecuadorean Foreign Ministry said on Thursday. From July…
International aid organisation Oxfam Wednesday called for zero tolerance of sex crimes against women in Colombia, and demands that the European Union pressure the Colombian government to become active in…
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,…