As many as 117 social leaders and human rights defenders were murdered in Colombia in 2016, according to conflict-monitoring NGO Indepaz. The number of homicides of rights leaders registered by the…
Colombia’s last-standing Marxist rebel group, the ELN, said Tuesday that in the event of successful peace talks it will not submit to the transitional justice model agreed with the much larger…
Colombia police has arrested the former bodyguard of an ex-presidential candidate who was assassinated on board a domestic flight almost 27 years ago, reported El Tiempo newspaper. A former agent of the now-defunct intelligence…
Colombia’s recent wave of assassinations and death threats against rights defenders and community leaders has reached a new low after the archbishop of Cali, an active supporter of peace, received a death threat. “Death to…
A surge in violence against rights activists and community leaders in Colombia has prompted 37 US Congressmen to ask Secretary of State John Kerry to act quickly to help stop…
One of Colombia’s largest peasant organizations said Sunday that 94 of its regional leaders have been assassinated so far this year, a 49% increase compared to the same period last year.…
The United Nations expressed its concern about an increase of assassinations in Colombia of community leaders and rights defenders, particularly in the countryside. In a press release on Friday, the Office…
Colombia’s human rights and community leaders continue to be the target of assassination attempts and death threats in an apparent surge in paramilitary violence. On Monday, indigenous governor Humberto Chiran from the southwestern Nariño…
With 70 members killed and 232 having received death threats, the leader of social umbrella organization Patriotic March urged authorities to prevent the repetition of a political “genocide” that all but…