Colombia Country Report - February 2026
By Juliana Girotto Indigenous peoples and others participate in a demonstration calling for better government protection of people in the country’s remote communities, on October 21, 2020, in Bogotá, Colombia.© Sebastián Barros/NurPhoto. Genocide Watch is issuing a Genocide Warning for Colombia. Nearly a decade after the signing of the 2016 Peace Agreement between the Colombian government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), violence and instability continue
Genocide Watch
May 6
Special Report: Colombian Community Leaders at Risk
By Juliana Girotto Genocide Watch Legislators hold photographs of social leaders who have been killed as Colombia's congress opens its new session ahead of the inauguration of leftist President-elect Gustavo Petro, in Bogota, Colombia July 20, 2022. REUTERS/Nathalia Angarita/File Photo Purchase Licensing Rights In 2024, the South American nation of Colombia saw an average of 16 community leaders killed each month, resulting in a total of 186 documented murders in 2024, or 23
Genocide Watch
Apr 26
Colombia's Historic Apology for State-Led Extermination
By Josep Freixes - November 10, 2025 Gustavo Petro presided over the public ceremony in which the state apologized to the victims for the extermination of the left in the 1980s and 1990s. Credit: A.P. / Colombia One. In the city of Santa Marta, during the Fourth Summit between the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) and the European Union, the Colombian state on Sunday made public an act of acknowledgment and apology to the victims of the extensive proce
Colombia One
Nov 9, 2025
Colombia's Atrato River Crisis: a Human Rights Emergency
A United Nations letter to Colombia warns that mercury contamination from illegal gold mining in the Atrato River basin is causing a grave human rights crisis for Indigenous and Afro-descendant communities By Steven Grattan A group of women, part of Asociacion Nuestra Casa Comun, or Our Community House Association, go by boat to an area destroyed by illegal mining, on the Quito River, the Atrato River’s main tributary, near Paimado, Colombia, Sept. 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Ivan Va
ABC 1
Oct 22, 2025
Bogotá Hague Group announces steps to hold Israel accountable
A group of 12 countries from across the world has committed to barring arms transfers to Israel, among other steps. Colombia's acting...
Al Jazeera
Jul 17, 2025
Colombia blocks deportees, backs down when Trump threatens
Colombian President Gustavo Petro, pictured at the White House in April 2023, said Sunday his country will not accept U.S. flights of...
Colombia: Enforced disappearances a daily reality
GENEVA/BOGOTA - Enforced disappearance remains a horrific reality across Colombia, with tens of thousands of victims unaccounted for and...
Colombia armed groups used peace talks to build strength
Admiral Francisco Cubides attends his appointment ceremony as the new Commander in Chief of the Colombian Military Forces, at the Jose...
Reuters
Dec 2, 2024
361 environmental activists killed in Colombia since 2018
A total of 361 people were killed in Colombia since 2018, a new report by the PARES foundation said Wednesday, linking some killings to...
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Oct 24, 2024
Colombia Government Suspends Peace Talks With ELN Rebels
A truck loaded with explosives used in an attack attributed to ELN guerrillas against a military base, burns in Puerto Jordan, Colombia...
Reuters
Sep 30, 2024
Colombia: Human rights defenders remain at risk
Names of murdered Colombian human rights defenders. Credit: Justice for Colombia the government must guarantee their protection By...
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Nov 11, 2023
Colombia Guilty of Kidnap and Torture, Court Finds
Joe Parkin Daniels | The Guardian Tue 19 Oct 2021, 06.00 EDT Inter-American court of human rights rules Colombia was ‘internationally...
The Guardian
Oct 19, 2021
