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.
November 9, 2020
Publicado por Semana el 2 de agosto de 2020.
Relatives are searching for 25,000 disappeared people at burial sites around the country.
August 2, 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 la Unidad de Búsqueda de Personas Desaparecidas el 30 de junio de 2020.
An update on the transitional justice system’s work in Casanare department.
June 30, 2020
Publicado por la Comisión Colombiana de Juristas el 26 de junio de 2020.
A discussion of how the Inter-American Human Rights System can be employed for cases of forced disappearance.
June 26, 2020
Publicado por la Unidad de Búsqueda de Personas Desaparecidas el 12 de junio de 2020.
A discussion of the work of the Unit for the Search for Disappeared Persons.
June 12, 2020
Published by SSRN on June 5, 2020.
U.S. researchers explore forced disappearance and other security dynamics at the Colombia-Venezuela border region in Norte de Santander department.
June 5, 2020
Publicado por la Unidad de Búsqueda de Personas Desaparecidas el 29 de mayo de 2020.
A discussion of the search for the disappeared in Bogotá and its environs.
May 29, 2020
Publicado por El Espectador Colombia 2020 el 28 de mayo de 2020.
An explanation of how the Unit for the Search for People Believed Disappeared, one of the agencies created by the peace accord, does its work.
May 28, 2020
Publicado por la Comisión de la Verdad el 27 de mayo de 2020.
A discussion of forced disappearance and how the search for the missing and reconstruction of memory are affected by COVID-19.
May 27, 2020
Publicado por la Unidad de Búsqueda de Personas Desaparecidas el 8 de mayo de 2020.
The Unit for the Search for Disappeared Persons, created by the 2016 peace accord, gives an update on its work so far.
May 8, 2020
Publicado por la Unidad de Búsqueda de Personas Desaparecidas el 6 de mayo de 2020.
An update on the work of the Unit for the Search for the Disappeared, established by the peace accords.
May 6, 2020
The Unit for the Search for Disappeared Persons (UBPD) releases its National Search Plan following a lengthy consultative process with victims’ organizations. The Plan outlines the Unit’s activities for its 25-year mandate, including collection of data and protection of mass grave sites.
May 6, 2020
Publicado por El Espectador el 30 de abril de 2020.
An update on the work of a committee of demobilized FARC fighters charged with finding people who were forcibly disappeared during the conflict.
April 30, 2020
Publicado por CINEP el 20 de abril de 2020.
An update on the post-conflict effort to search for disappeared persons, with Christoph Harnisch (Colombia chief, International Committee of the Red Cross), Luz Marina Monzón (Director, Unit for the Search for Disappeared Persons), and Lucía Osorno (Movement of Victims of State Crimes), moderated by Ginna Morelo (El Tiempo).
April 20, 2020
Publicado por El Espectador el 17 de abril de 2020.
Concerns that burials of coronavirus victims may affect the identification and preservation of remains of people disappeared during the conflict.
April 17, 2020
Publicado por El Espectador el 3 de abril de 2020.
A conversation with Luz Marina Monzón, director of the Unit for the Search for Disappeared People created by the peace accord, about how the Unit’s work is adjusting to the coronavirus emergency.
April 3, 2020
The ICRC’s annual overview of the humanitarian situation in Colombia. Finds an alarming 2019 increase in landmine victims, confinements, and attacks on medical personnel.
March 5, 2020
Publicado por Semana el 1 de marzo de 2020.
Investigators from Colombia’s transitional justice tribunal have established that many bodies in a laboratory at the University of Antioquia are those of conflict victims. Something similar may be the case nationwide, wherever unidentified bodies are buried in cemeteries. Accompanies a Semana article.
March 1, 2020
February 8, 2020
