On 8 May 2012, three human rights defenders and a lawyer in Sucre, northern Colombia, received death threats. All four have been supporting peasant farmers to get ...
On 7 May 2012, shots were fired into the office of a women's rights organization in Bogota, Colombia. This follows a series of attacks and intimidation against ...
Peasant farmer leader Hernán Henry Díaz, who was arranging a protest march, has not been seen since 18 April, and may have been subjected to enforced disappearance ...
On 10 June 2011, President Juan Manuel Santos signed into law the Victims and Land Restitution Law. The Law and its associated decrees cover a range of interrelated ...
Manuel Ruíz, a member of the community council of Apartadocito, and his son, were abducted and subsequently killed by paramilitaries in northern Colombia on 23 ...
David Rabelo Gutiérrez, the son of a human rights defender who is on trial, has received an email, signed by paramilitaries, that declares him a military target ...
21 March 2012. UN Human Rights Council. Nineteenth Session. 27 February – 23 March 2012. Item 2. Annual report of the United Nations High Commissioner for. ...
A member of a family previously targeted by paramilitaries in northern Colombia has survived an attempt on his life. His life, and the lives of his relatives, are ...
Paramilitaries have offered a bounty for the killing of Colombian human rights lawyer José Humberto Torres, a member of the Political Prisoners Solidarity Committee ...