

Killings of Colombia ex-rebels could reach 1,600 by end of 2024 -court
A FARC banner beside a Colombian national flag at Pondores reintegration camp, La Guajira [File: Steven Grattan/Al Jazeera] Some 1,600...
Reuters
Apr 29, 2021


27,000 displaced in Colombia violence this year
Increase in displacement comes amid threats, murders and violence between armed groups, human rights ombudsman says. People take part in...
Al Jazeera
Apr 27, 2021


Rights group cites abuses by Venezuelan forces near Colombia
By REGINA GARCIA CANO The Colombia-Venezuela Border. Credit: Las Teles MEXICO CITY (AP) — Venezuelan security forces operating against...
Associated Press 1
Apr 27, 2021


Colombia Drug Gang Wounds 31 indigenous people
Indigenous people in Colombia protest invasion by drug gangs Credit: Boston Globe At least 31 indigenous people were wounded in...
Reuters
Apr 23, 2021


LGBTQ South Africans Demand Justice After Hate Crime Wave
Four gay men have been murdered in South Africa in less than a month. Getty Images By OLIVER HAUG | April 21, 2021 Lonwabo Jack, a...
Genocide Watch
Apr 22, 2021


Colombia peace court alarmed over killings of former rebels
By MANUEL RUEDA In this Dec. 14, 2018 file photo, a clerk goes over court files at the headquarter of the Special Peace Jurisdiction in...
Associated Press 1
Apr 20, 2021


Where Women’s Deaths Are a State Secret
New York Times April 10, 2020 By Julie Turkewitz and Isayen Herrera Photographs by Meridith Kohut CARACAS, Venezuela — The labor pains...
Julie Turkewitz & Isayen Herrera
Apr 16, 2021


5,000 Flee as Venezuela Launches Largest Military Campaign in Decades
By Julie Turkewitz Venezuelans near the Arauca River, the border between Venezuela and Colombia, after crossing by boat into Arauquita,...
New York Times 1
Apr 5, 2021


Colombia sees surge in mass killings in 2020: UN
A Colombian woman cries in front her house, which was destroyed during an attack in the village of La Caucana, Antioquia province...
Al Jazeera
Mar 15, 2021


Colombia Seeks Justice for War Atrocities Via New Court
By Julie Turkewitz BOGOTÁ, Colombia — The testimony is searing. “They tied me to a tree,” said one victim of Colombia’s guerrillas. “They...
New York Times 1
Mar 12, 2021


Last surviving male member of exterminated Brazilian indigenous group dies of Covid
Aruká Juma's death comes amid a failure to protect native communities from the pandemic. The last surviving man of an exterminated...
The Telegraph
Feb 23, 2021


Brazil: Secret Process to Change Human Rights Policy
Exclusion of Civil Society from Discussions Raises Concern The administration of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro should ensure that...
Human Rights Watch
Feb 19, 2021