While acts of violence against women did undergo a process of normalization, though this happened less and less, violence against LGBTQI+ people relied on social complicity. In other words, armed ...

Deadly violence targeting Colombia’s human rights defenders and community leaders maintained in 2023, according to data by think tank Indepaz. According to the non-governmental organization, 188 ...

More than 40 human rights defenders and community leaders have been killed in Colombia since January, according to Indepaz, a Colombian peace-building nonprofit. IE 11 is not supported.

According to think tank Indepaz, 189 community leaders and human rights defenders were assassinated last year against 171 in 2021. The registered assassinations took place throughout Colombia, ...

At least 42 people have died, thousands have been injured and hundreds are believed to be missing as widespread protests and violence across Colombia continued for the third week. The ...

A UAE-coordinated law enforcement operation targeting environmental crime in the Amazon Basin has led to 94 arrests and the ...

A mural against sexual violence in Buenaventura, Colombia. Local human rights defenders say paramilitaries use sexual violence and femicide as systematic tools to control their territories.

BOGOTA, Colombia, November 25 (UNHCR) - On the morning of May 5, 2003, Omaira Fernández took a walk to the stream that runs near her home in the indigenous reserve of Betoyes, in the Colombian ...

He joined the people of Cartagena on the streets on July 26th for a protest to denounce violence against community activists. The crowd, expressed disapproval for Duque.

Against invasion, discrimination, armed groups, forced recruitment and displacement, acculturation," said Olivio Bisbicus, one of the leaders of this community of nearly 50,000. "Being an Awa ...

Scientists and conservationists are calling for action to stop violence against Indigenous peoples, local communities and environmental defenders across the Amazon region in South America.

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Illegal armed groups are imposing strict COVID-19 quarantines in parts of Colombia where the state has a weak presence, threatening and even killing those who don’t ...