A Bogota court on Monday ordered Colombia’s congress to ratify 16 temporary seats in the House of Representatives for regions that have been ravaged by armed conflict and state neglect.…
Colombia’s state council on Thursday overruled the sinking of congressional seats for victims, a key element of an ongoing peace process with demobilized Marxist rebel group FARC. The 16 reserved…
Colombia’s president Juan Manuel Santos said Wednesday he will ask the court to reject a senate decision to sink the reservation of 16 congressional seats for victims. Senate President Efrain…
The president of Colombia’s Truth Commission, Francisco de Roux, is a highly respected Jesuit priest who has been working with the country’s war victims for decades. The role of De…
Thursday’s massacre in southwest Colombia’s Tumaco is only one of more than 2,000 that have marked the country’s political history of the past century. According to the National Center for…
Estados Unidos, a township in the north of Colombia, once had 1,000 inhabitants. After three massacres and hundreds of homicides all but nine locals fled. Many survivors have still not…
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) urged Colombia’s state and illegal armed groups to cooperate in the search for the tens of thousands of people who went missing…
Colombia’s armed conflict has displaced more than 7 million Colombians in what increasingly appears to have been a major land theft operation as only 16% of displaced victims were uprooted…
Both Colombia’s prosecutor general and the demobilized guerrilla group FARC have lied about guerrilla assets meant to repair conflict victims. Prosecutor General Nestor Humberto Martinez has been a controversial figure…