A top Ombudsman official said Monday that the government is systematically ignoring early warnings that could save social leaders’ and fails to allocate funds that could improve security. The Ombudsman’s…
The United Nations has announced it will begin to work more closely to protect Colombian social leaders, who have in recent years been the targets of unprecedented violence. The Colombian…
Colombia’s ombudsman said Wednesday that he alerted authorities about pending violence in central Colombia four months before at least six people were killed in a massacre. Ombudsman Carlos Alfonso Negret…
Colombia’s last remaining Marxist-inspired rebel group the ELN violated a ceasefire with the government during a raid in southwest Colombia last month, according to comments by the country’s Ombudsman on…
Almost 800 families from Colombia’s largest port city on the Pacific coast, Buenaventura, are at risk of violence by illegal armed groups, according to the country’s ombudsman. Locals are facing…
Paramilitary groups have taken control of considerable territory in the south of the capital Bogota, news website Pacifista reported based on Ombudsman alerts. In a 22-page document from 2016 and a follow-up…
Colombia’s Ombudsman on Monday called for the closure of some of the nation’s prisons due to extreme overcrowding and a chronic humanitarian crisis that is unfolding, reported El Pais newspaper.…
Colombia’s ombudsmen threw the towel in the ring late Wednesday amid piling evidence he allegedly sexually harassed his secretary and bullied subordinates.
Instead of resigning, Colombia’s ombudsman fired his assistant ombudsman on Tuesday amid piling accusations that the ombudsman sexually harassed and bullied subordinates.