Candidates debate on displacement canceled
A debate among presidential candidates on forced displacement in Colombia was canceled by its organizers on Tuesday due to a “lack of interest” from the candidates, reports Colombian NGO CODHES. The…
A debate among presidential candidates on forced displacement in Colombia was canceled by its organizers on Tuesday due to a “lack of interest” from the candidates, reports Colombian NGO CODHES. The…
A U.S.-based NGO alleges that they and 80 other Colombian NGOs received death threats from Colombian paramilitary group the “Aguilas Negras.” The Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA), whose aim…
Several multinational companies with activities in Colombia are ‘to be tried’ in Madrid this weekend during the fourth Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal (TPP). Most cases deal with violations of human rights…
Colombia’s free trade agreement (FTA) with the European Union (EU) includes a clause which provides for the pact’s suspension in the event of a “flagrant” violation of human rights, reports…
The human rights situation in Colombia is improving or it isn’t. There may be many ways to skin a cat, but the answer to this question is limited to the…
Indigenous communities in the south western department of Cauca implored all armed fighters on Tuesday to leave their territory, following the intensification of fighting between left-wing FARC guerillas and the…
Colombian NGO Fundacion Progresar Monday condemned “serious” human rights violations at the Colombia-Venezuela border, which, according to the organization’s statistics, has seen 16,000 murders and 1,800 disappearances over the last…
Japan and the United Nations (UN) will donate more than $2.5 million towards reinforcing security in the town of Soacha, just south of Colombia’s capital city Bogota. “Almost 50 years…
Forced displacement of Colombian citizens increases by 150,000 people a year, Ariranga Govindasamy Pillay, one of 18 experts from the United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR) said…