Women and girls have been targeted for sexual violence by members of all the warring parties in Colombia's long-running armed conflict. For decades, these crimes ...
A member of the Association for Relatives of the Detained-Disappeared (ASFADDES), Luz Elsia Almanza Suárez, was threatened by a paramilitary group on 6 September ...
In the Americas, enforced disappearances are not just an issue of the past, with much still to be done for justice to be delivered to the victims and their relatives ...
This statement, to the 21st session of the UN Human Rights Council, encapsulates one of the main challenges Indigenous peoples face when their ancestral territories ...
LGBTI activists, trade unionists, victims associations and human rights defenders in Barrancabermeja, Northern Colombia, have received death threats from paramilitaries ...
Trade unionists Oscar Arturo Orozco and Wilson Jaramillo's lives are in danger after shots were fired at the car they were travelling in on 4 August in Caldas Department ...
Governments across the Americas continue to discriminate against Indigenous peoples by denying their right to have a say on decisions which may have devastating ...