Colombia’s Constitutional Court ruled Thursday that municipalities do not have the right to permit or block mining or subsoil activity within their jurisdictions.
A decision by Colombia’s Constitutional Court will open the door for indigenous individuals convicted of crimes to serve their prison sentences within their respective communities and not in ordinary prison, local media reported…
Colombia’s Inspector General Alejandro Ordoñez said Friday that he plans to solicit Colombia’s top Constitutional Court for a revision of a recent Bogota court ruling that reversed the annulment of…
Human Rights Watch has called the high court’s decision to strike down Colombia’s military justice reform bill a “major victory for human rights,” while Amnesty International has warned that it…
In a landmark ruling that is unappealable, Colombia’s Constitutional Court on Wednesday struck down a military justice reform that according to human rights groups would have given war criminals impunity.…
Outspoken former Colombian Senator Piedad Cordoba announced over Twitter that she is taking her case to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights after the Constitutional Court upheld a 2010 ruling,…
Colombia’s Constitutional Court upheld a 2010 ruling to ban outspoken politician Piedad Cordoba from holding public office for 18 years for colluding with rebel group FARC.
62.7% of Colombia’s indigenous population is at risk of extinction, according to statistics provided by the National Indigenous Organization of Colombia to a major Colombian news outlet.
Colombia’s President has denounced the Pact of Bogota before the country’s Constitutional Court in the latest challenge to the ICJ’s ruling that Colombian maritime territory be ceded to Nicaragua.