Published by the American Economic Journal: Economic Policy on August 1, 2020.
U.S. and Colombian economists find a correlation between 2003-08 “false positive” killings, the weakness of judicial institutions, and the prevalence of colonels commanding Army brigades.
August 1, 2020
Publicado por La Liga Contra el Silencio el 30 de julio de 2020.
Forced eradication operations are growing ever more aggressive, as documented in this account from journalists in the Guayabero River region of south-central Colombia.
July 30, 2020
Publicado por la Comisión de la Verdad el 29 de julio de 2020.
A discussion of the Colombian government’s security crackdown during the 1978-1982 government of President Julio César Turbay.
July 29, 2020
Publicado por Semana el 28 de julio de 2020.
Examines the alleged responsibility of ex-president Álvaro Uribe and the armed forces for serious human rights abuses in Antioquia.
July 28, 2020
Publicado por Semana el 28 de julio de 2020.
A former guerrilla recounts the FARC’s history of recruiting minors.
July 28, 2020
Publicado por Semana el 24 de julio de 2020.
Vice-President Marta Lucía Ramírez gives an update about military cooperation with investigations into allegations of sexual abuse by soldiers.
July 24, 2020
Publicado por la Comisión Colombiana de Juristas el 24 de julio de 2020.
The human rights group’s longtime director discusses risks to human rights, civil liberties, and peace accord implementation during the government’s response to COVID-19.
July 24, 2020
Maximum FARC party leader Rodrigo Londoño repeats the claim, uttered a day earlier by FARC Senator Griselda Lobo, that the guerrilla group did not recruit children as a matter of policy—while also admitting that the FARC’s policy was to accept recruits as young as 15 years old.
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July 23, 2020
Publicado por Semana el 23 de julio de 2020.
Rep. Jim McGovern (D-Massachusetts) joins a panel to discuss human rights and U.S. military assistance to Colombia.
July 23, 2020
Publicado por Semana el 23 de julio de 2020.
Maximum FARC party leader Rodrigo Londoño talks about transitional justice and the FARC’s past human rights crimes, including forced child recruitment, which the guerrillas are denying took place.
July 23, 2020
Publicado por la Comisión de la Verdad el 23 de julio de 2020.
A discussion with social leaders from Colombia’s Pacific coast region.
July 23, 2020
Publicado por Semana el 22 de julio de 2020.
A narco-criminal organization has taken control of politics and corruption in La Guajira, one of Colombia’s poorest departments.
July 22, 2020
Publicado por Rodeemos el Diálogo el 22 de julio de 2020.
A discussion with a leader of a community from the Montes de María that suffered a major paramilitary massacre in 2000.
July 22, 2020
Publicado por Semana el 21 de julio de 2020.
An interview with social leader Luis Ernesto Olave from Chocó department’s Bajo Baudó region, which is suffering intense combat between the ELN and the Gulf Clan.
July 21, 2020
Published by Omar Vásquez and Melissa de la Hoz on July 20, 2020.
This 2014 Simón Bolívar prize documentary, now shared on YouTube, features the struggle for justice of relatives of military “false positives” victims. (Versión en español)
July 20, 2020
Published by Semana on July 18, 2020.
Mostly non-Latin American migrants pass through Colombia and then on to the very dangerous Darién Gap of Panama.
July 18, 2020
Publicado por Rodeemos el Diálogo el 18 de julio de 2020.
A discussion of the challenges facing women victims’ activism with Claudia Quintero, director of the Corporación Anne Frank.
July 18, 2020
Publicado por Vorágine el 17 de julio de 2020.
After killing him in late June in Catatumbo, Colombia’s Army claimed that Salvador Durán was an ELN member, which the group denied.
July 17, 2020
Publicado por Semana el 16 de julio de 2020.
The Nukak Makú people of Guaviare, who were first contacted in the 1980s, have been hit hard by the armed conflict, including a recent case of sexual abuse by soldiers.
July 16, 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
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
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 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 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
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
