Two ministers within President Alvaro Uribe’s administration submitted a bill to the Colombian Congress on Friday seeking to increase the punishment for those who harm human rights defenders. According to…
International human rights watchdog Amnesty International says in its annual The State of the World’s Human Rights report that Colombian government security forces, paramilitaries, and guerrillas are all guilty of serious…
A group of human rights activists, NGOs, and American and Colombian citizens held a rally in front of the White House in Washington D.C. Monday evening to call to attention…
Colombia’s Constitutional Court voted 6 to 2 against holding a referendum on changing the law to impose life imprisonment on those who kill or rape children, LaFM reported Wednesday. The court…
The United Nations (UN) on Tuesday urged Colombia to protect its vulnerable populations from the impact of the country’s free trade agreements and the ongoing war on drugs, reports Portofolio.…
A group of unknown assailants stabbed Marco Romero, the director of CODHES, a Colombian NGO that campaigns for human rights and against forced displacement, while he was walking through central Bogota…
Colombian presidential candidate Antanas Mockus on Saturday called on the country’s security forces and private sector to fight a “clean” war against the FARC. According to the Green Party candidate,…
A Colombian human rights defender was shot dead in the northern department of Sucre on Wednesday, in what appears to be another attack on activists working to protect the rights…
Colombia and Peru officially signed a free trade agreement (FTA) with the European Union (EU) at a ceremony in Madrid on Wednesday, boosting bilateral trade between the European bloc and…