Members of the Afro-descendant community of Caracolí, in the Curvaradó region of Chocó Department, were not served with a threatened eviction notice on 18 June ...
Amnesty International today denounced yet another dramatic increase inthe number of Colombians forced to leave their homes because of thearmed conflict and urged ...
Each year, hundreds of thousands of people join the millions already internally displaced in Colombia. In the face of the continued violence and displacement, the ...
With around another 380000 Colombians having to leave their homes in 2008, the number of internally displaced people in the country is amongst the world's highest ...
The family of an Indigenous leader, campaigning for land rights in the south-western Department of Cauca, has received a death threat. Other Indigenous leaders ...
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL. PUBLIC STATEMENT. AI Index: AMR 23/017/2009. Date 22 June 2009. Colombia: New law strengthens impunity for human rights abusers. ...
Sources in the Curvaradó region learned at a local meeting on 11 June that local police were preparing an eviction notice, which they planned to serve on 18 June ...
AI Index: AMR 23/014/2009. Ref: TG AMR 23/2009.10. Dr. Jaime Bermúdez Merizalde. Minister of Foreign Affairs of Colombia. Calle 10 No 5-51. Palacio de San Carlos ...
Indigenous leader Aída Quilcué, who has been receiving protection ordered by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights since her husband was killed by soldiers in ...
The detention of seven members of the army unit that killed the husband of an Indigenous leader is welcome, but a thorough and independent criminal investigati.
