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BOGOTA (Reuters) -Colombia's human rights ombudsman on Friday urged local authorities of high-risk areas for wildfires to take preventative action, while the environment minister warned the Andean ...
Colombia and Panama are failing to protect hundreds of thousands of migrants who cross the Darien jungle on their way to the U.S. and have become increasingly vulnerable to robberies and sexual ...
The number of murdered activists, known as social leaders, and human rights defenders in Colombia was lower in 2023 than the prior year, the ombudsman said, adding that killings in 2022 were a ...
The report was released in the wake of mass violence against Indigenous activists in Colombia. [6] The Institute of Development and Peace Studies (INDEPAZ) is a non-profit organization that documents and lists every Indigenous activist, social leader and environmental defender that has been killed.
Colombia loses 1-0 against Argentina at the 2024 Copa América final held in Miami. [15] Colombian Football Federation president Ramón Jesurún is arrested in Miami following an altercation related to the Colombian team's defeat to Argentina in the 2024 Copa América final. [16] The charges against him are dropped on 26 August. [17]
A 1999-human rights report from the U.S. State Department said: At times the security forces collaborated with paramilitary groups that committed abuses; in some instances, individual members of the security forces actively collaborated with members of paramilitary groups by passing them through roadblocks, sharing intelligence, and providing ...
BOGOTÁ, Colombia (AP) — Colombia’s Supreme Court on Tuesday selected the nation’s new attorney general following a month of deliberations that were interrupted by protests outside the court ...
The 2011 report from the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights for Colombia reports that 'the prosecution and arbitrary detentions of human rights defenders on the basis of uncorroborated information provided mainly by informants, demobilized persons and military intelligence reports, continue to be of concern'. [48]