Publicado por El Espectador Colombia 2020 el 15 de julio de 2020.
Violence forces a community of former FARC combatants to abandon their former demobilization zone and relocate, with government assistance, elsewhere in Antioquia.
July 15, 2020
Publicado por Indepaz el 15 de julio de 2020.
The Bogotá-based think tank counts 166 social leaders and 36 former FARC combatants murdered so far in 2020.
July 15, 2020
Published by Human Rights Watch on July 15, 2020.
Warns of the vicious measures that illegal armed groups have taken to enforce COVID-19 lockdowns, and control territory, in several parts of the country.
July 15, 2020
Caption: “‘Nadie en Colombia duda que debemos apoyar los 170 municipios más afectados por la violencia y la pobreza, y que debemos cerrar la brecha de inequidad que tienen con respecto al resto del país. Eso lo hacemos con los PDET’: @EmilioJArchila”
July 15, 2020
The UN Security Council holds its quarterly review of Colombia’s peace process and the work of the UN Verification Mission. Member states’ representatives voice strong concerns about increased attacks on social leaders and human rights defenders. Cauca-based social leader Clemencia Carabalí, of the Proceso de Comunidades Negras, addresses the session.
July 14, 2020
Publicado por Semana el 14 de julio de 2020.
A former defense minister and ambassador to the United States says that most Truth Commission members have “affinity or ties to armed groups.”
July 14, 2020
Publicado por la Coordinación Colombia-Europa-Estados Unidos el 13 de julio de 2020.
The latest pandemic human rights update from the non-governmental platform looks at recent allegations of sexual abuse by military personnel around the country.
July 13, 2020
Publicado por la Comisión de la Verdad el 13 de julio de 2020.
A women’s singing group raises awareness of forced disappearance, of which there are more than 1,400 victims in Tumaco.
July 13, 2020
Publicado por El Espectador Colombia 2020 el 13 de julio de 2020.
An investigation into unscrupulous social media campaigns against the post-conflict transitional justice system.
July 13, 2020
Publicado por la Fundación Ideas para la Paz el 13 de julio de 2020.
An infographic presenting the transitional justice system’s activities since COVID-19 measures went into effect in March 2020.
July 13, 2020
Caption: “Esta mina antipersonal fue hallada por soldados del Batallón de Ingenieros de Desminado Humanitario N.º6 en un camino veredal donde transitan nueve familias del corregimiento El Toche de Palmira”
July 13, 2020
Caption: “Este miércoles en la mañana, iniciará el traslado concertado de excombatientes de Ituango hacia Mutatá. Para esta jornada, el Gobierno Nacional ya tiene listo el transporte, alimentos y seguridad. 🚚”
July 13, 2020
Citing testimonies and evidence from contractor personnel, Semana magazine reports that forced manual coca eradication teams may have been inflating and exaggerating their results, measured in land area, by as much as 30 percent.
July 12, 2020
Publicado por Semana el 12 de julio de 2020.
The newsmagazine reveals that coca eradication teams have been inflating statistics of their results for years.
July 12, 2020
Publicado por Semana el 12 de julio de 2020.
The newsmagazine finds that coca eradication teams have been systematically inflating reports of their results, throwing off recordkeeping for many years.
July 12, 2020
Published by The New York Times on July 11, 2020.
Reporters travel 1,000 miles across pandemic-hit Colombia and find many examples of human suffering.
July 11, 2020
Published by Rodeemos el Diálogo on July 11, 2020.
A discussion of the Kroc Institute’s June 16, 2020 report on implementation of the peace accord.
July 11, 2020
Publicado por la Fundación Paz y Reconciliación el 10 de julio de 2020.
A discussion of mounting allegations of sexual violence committed by military personnel.
July 10, 2020
Publicado por El Tiempo el 10 de julio de 2020.
More than 50 conflict victims are encamped outside the Procuraduría headquarters in Bogotá after being evicted in the middle of a pandemic.
July 10, 2020
Publicado por El Tiempo el 10 de julio de 2020.
Gen. Jaime Lasprilla, a former commander of Colombia’s army, denies that a recent spate of cases of sexual violence represents a systematic problem within the armed forces.
July 10, 2020
Publicado por la Comisión Colombiana de Juristas el 10 de julio de 2020.
A discussion of land tenure issues and rural policy in Cauca.
July 10, 2020
Published by the American Bar Association Center for Human Rights on July 9, 2020.
Examines how Colombian judicial authorities can improve their protection of human rights defenders and hold masterminds accountable.
July 10, 2020
Publicado por la Comisión de la Verdad el 9 de julio de 2020.
A discussion of land tenure and the campesino movement.
July 9, 2020
Publicado por El Tiempo el 9 de julio de 2020.
Nancy Patricia Gutiérrez, the Colombian Presidency’s advisor for human rights, gives a presentation about killings of social leaders.
July 9, 2020
Publicado por la Comisión Colombiana de Juristas el 9 de julio de 2020.
Presentation of a report about paramilitary massacres in the Montes de María region in 2000 and 2001, and the military’s role.
July 9, 2020
