Published by The New York Times on November 27, 2020.
A sad, intimate portrait of a family’s reverse migration from Colombia back to Venezuela during the coronavirus pandemic.
A Mother, Her Son — and Their 1,500-Mile Search for Home
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Colombia’s Female Social Leaders, LGBT+, and Land Rights Activists At Risk
Published by WOLA on November 24, 2020.
WOLA’s latest monthly urgent update on the situation of human rights defenders and social leaders in Colombia.
Brutalidad policial: 7 mil denuncias en cinco años y ni una condena
Publicado por La Silla Vacía el 23 de noviembre de 2020.
Of 7,491 complaints of police abuse in Bogotá since 2016, no police agent has even been indicted, much less convicted.
En la JEP: las revelaciones de Blanco Maya sobre carboneras y paramilitares en Cesar
Publicado por El Espectador el 23 de noviembre de 2020.
Revelations in the transitional justice system about links between paramilitary groups and coal mining companies in northeastern Colombia.
The ‘false positives’ scandal that felled Colombia’s military hero
Published by The Guardian on November 19, 2020.
A profile of Gen. (Ret.) Mario Montoya and the legacy of the “False Positives” human rights scandal.
La implementación del Acuerdo de paz no toca todavía las vidas de las mujeres
Publicado por La Silla Vacía el 18 de noviembre de 2020.
A synthesis, based on three recent oversight reports, of 10 ways that peace accord implementation is falling short of its gender focus goals.
US-Opposed Probe of Colombia’s Uribe Is Essential Step in Road to Peace
Published by Just Security on November 18, 2020.
The authors find that accountability over the ex-president’s human rights record is important for peace, and urge U.S. support for it.
La oleada de violencia que padece la Colombia Humana
Publicado por El Espectador el 14 de noviembre de 2020.
Documents increasing attacks against members of a leftist political movement.
Nadie busca a las víctimas de desaparición forzada en los cementerios de Bogotá
Publicado por El Espectador el 9 de noviembre de 2020.
People forcibly disappeared during the armed conflict may be among 5,600 unidentified bodies interred in Bogotá’s cemeteries.
Jimmy Humberto Medina, el Defensor de la Selva
Publicado por Verdad Abierta el 8 de noviembre de 2020.
Part of a four-part series on the security situation, and related human rights and environmental harms, in Guaviare department. A profile of an environmental defender assassinated in 2017.
La Selva, Otra Víctima
Publicado por Verdad Abierta el 8 de noviembre de 2020.
Part of a four-part series on the security situation, and related human rights and environmental harms, in Guaviare department.
Guaviare es Peor aún Para la Naturaleza que Para los Líderes Sociales
Publicado por Verdad Abierta el 8 de noviembre de 2020.
Part of a four-part series on the security situation, and related human rights and environmental harms, in Guaviare department.
La masacre de cinco indígenas y campesinos de la que algunos no quieren que se hable en Sucre
Publicado por Vorágine el 8 de noviembre de 2020.
An account of a paramilitary massacre in an indigenous community in San Marcos, Sucre.
No cesó la imposición de los fusiles
Publicado por Verdad Abierta el 8 de noviembre de 2020.
Part of a four-part series on the security situation, and related human rights and environmental harms, in Guaviare department.
Los audios de la DEA y la Fiscalía que le negaron a la JEP sobre el caso “Santrich”
Publicado por El Espectador el 8 de noviembre de 2020.
The newspaper obtains 24,000 audios from the Fiscalía that shed harsh new light on the drug trafficking case against a former FARC negotiator.
Guayabero: así se vive la crisis humanitaria por la erradicación de coca
Publicado por El Espectador el 7 de noviembre de 2020.
A community in southwest Meta department seeks to resist FARC dissident groups and government forced eradication teams by declaring a “humanitarian space.”
El virus de la violencia
Publicado por Somos Defensores el 3 de noviembre de 2020.
Somos Defensores’ report about attacks on social leaders during the first six months of 2020. The organization counts 95 murders, the largest number it had ever recorded during the first half of a year.
‘I Will Be Left With Nothing’: Why Colombians Are Watching the U.S. Election Closely
Published by Politico on November 2, 2020.
An overview of the state of affairs as Colombia edges closer to restarting a controversial U.S.-backed program of aerial herbicide fumigation.
Así va el espinoso caso de reclutamiento de menores de edad en la JEP
Publicado por Verdad Abierta el 1 de noviembre de 2020.
A look at how the transitional justice system is working through Case 07, covering the FARC’s recruitment of children within its ranks.