A surge in attacks on community leaders and human rights defenders that followed the sinking of Colombia’s peace deal with Marxist FARC rebels is leaving a new generation of widows and orphans.
Three Colombia human rights defenders were killed and two barely survived assassination attempts over the weekend amid growing security concerns in the country. The assassinations are the latest in a series of…
Colombia’s top administrative court on Wednesday ruled that the state was responsible for the 1999 murder of Jaime Garzon, one of the most popular political satirists at the time. While Garzon…
At least 13 activists who have been promoting peace with leftist FARC rebels have been assassinated in Colombia since the guerrillas and the government announced a ceasefire three weeks ago, the country’s human rights office…
Armed men killed the son of the former director of Colombia’s now-defunct intelligence agency who is under investigation for the murder of 1989 presidential candidate Luis Carlos Galan. Miguel Segundo Maza…
Colombia has not been any safer in 35 years — unless you work with human rights, because threats and murders targeting rights workers increased in the South American country.
More than 500 political activists were killed in Colombia between 2011 and last year, according to a report presented to the British parliament by a British human rights NGO on…
Colombia’s Minister for Agriculture claimed on Monday that he received threats from the president of the country’s ranchers federation amid an ongoing dispute over funding.
Authorities on Monday captured a former official of Colombia’s now-defunct intelligence agency for his relation to the 1989 murder of anti-Pablo Escobar presidential candidate Luis Carlos Galan.