Links to long-form information about peace, security, and human rights in Colombia
Published by the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime on October 20, 2021.
“Examines criminal governance during the pandemic of three groups based in Tumaco: the Alfonso Cano Western Bloc (BOAC), the United Guerrillas of the Pacific (GUP) and the Contadores (Accountants).”
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.
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.
Publicado por la Fundación Ideas para la Paz el 26 de octubre de 2020.
A look at the security situation amid the health crisis in Catatumbo, southern Córdoba, and Antioquia’s northeast and Bajo Cauca regions.
Publicado por La Silla Vacía el 21 de octubre de 2020.
A non-aggression pact between criminal groups has broken in the embattled port city in southwest Colombia.
Published by WOLA on September 23, 2020.
WOLA’s latest monthly urgent update on the situation of human rights defenders and social leaders in Colombia.
Publicado por el Centro de Derechos Reproductivos el 3 de septiembre de 2020.
A summary of a more detailed scientific study of risks to reproductive health posed by glyphosate, the herbicide that the U.S. and Colombian governments wish to resume spraying from aircraft over coca-growing areas.
Published by Human Rights Watch on August 13, 2020.
Child malnutrition remains severe among the Wayuu people of La Guajira. It is a result of severe corruption and threatens to worsen with COVID-19.
Published by Colombia Risk Analysis on August 5, 2020.
As Iván Duque hits the midpoint of his presidential term, an overview of Colombia’s political and economic reality.
Published by WOLA on August 4, 2020.
WOLA’s latest monthly urgent update on the situation of human rights defenders and social leaders in Colombia.
Publicado por El Espectador el 3 de agosto de 2020.
The COVID-19 pandemic is hitting Afro-desdendant and indigenous communities especially hard.
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.
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.
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.
Published by WOLA on June 26, 2020.
WOLA’s latest monthly urgent update on the situation of human rights defenders and social leaders in Colombia.
Publicado por la Coordinación Colombia-Europa-Estados Unidos el 9 de junio de 2020.
An indictment of some of the Colombian government’s policy choices during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Published by the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies on May 25, 2020.
Information about Venezuelan returnee flows, and provision of assistance to them, during the COVID-19 crisis.
Publicado por la Fundación Ideas para la Paz el 24 de mayo de 2020.
An overview of conflict trends during the first four months of 2020. Notes some decrease in overall violence amid the COVID-19 pandemic, with armed groups enforcing restrictions and social leaders facing even more attacks.
Published by WOLA on May 19, 2020.
WOLA’s latest monthly urgent update on the situation of human rights defenders and social leaders in Colombia.
Published by NACLA on May 5, 2020.
An update from a scholar who has been sheltering in place with a campesino family in Briceño, Antioquia, the town chosen for a pilot crop substitution project before the 2016 peace accord was signed.
Publicado por La Silla Vacía el 1 de mayo de 2020.
A survey of how illegal armed groups are imposing rules and enforcing quarantines during the COVID-19 crisis.
An infographic explaining the unilateral ceasefire that the ELN declared during the month of April 2020, past ceasefires, and what might come next.
Publicado por la Defensoría del Pueblo el 30 de abril de 2020.
An early-warning alert from the human rights ombudsman detailing armed groups’ activities during the first several weeks of COVID-19 response, including violent enforcement of public health measures.
Publicado por el Instituto para las Transiciones Integrales el 28 de abril de 2020.
A look at how the COVID-19 crisis is affecting historically conflictive parts of Colombia that were prioritized for the peace accord’s Territorially Focused Development Programs (PDET).
Published by Rodeemos el Diálogo on April 25, 2020.
An analysis by Gwen Burnyeat and Andrei Gómez-Suárez of recent events and prospects for renewed dialogues with the ELN.
