Latest news from PBI ColombiaOpen Democracy: Colombia - a tale of two leaders, 19 August 2010Juan Manuel Santos has made a refreshing start as Colombia’s president by departing from the policies of his predecessor, Álvaro Uribe. But to map a new political direction he will need support from uncertain allies, says Adam...[more] Le Monde diplomatique: The Colombian gold rush, august 2010As the price of raw materials rises, Latin-American governments are selling off their raw resources. Colombia wants the big companies to come and mine by Laurence Mazure
The Colombian military shelled a home in Alto Guayabal,...[more] FOR Colombia: Military Assistance and Human Rights: Colombia, U.S. Accountability, and Global Implications, July 2010The scale of U.S. training and equipping of other nations’ militaries has grown exponentially since 2001, but there are major concerns about the extent to which the U.S. government is implementing the laws and monitoring the...[more] Far Worse than Watergate: Widening Scandal regarding Colombia's Intelligence Agency, June 2010A still-unfolding scandal in Colombia is revealing that the government’s intelligence agency not only spied upon major players in Colombia’s democracy—from Supreme Court and Constitutional Court judges to presidential candidates,...[more] Video: The beginning of the end (by: Give Us Names, a nonprofit organization seeking to improve the lives of displaced Colombians)ver video Human Rights Council: Report of the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary, 31 March 2010The challenges faced by the Government of Colombia in providing peace, justice, security and economic opportunity to its citizens cannot be underestimated. Colombia has endured decades of armed conflict and gross human rights...[more] Adam Isacson: The next Colombia, 31 March 2010A vital constitutional decision and a party-primary vote have blown wide open the electoral campaign to succeed Álvaro Uribe as Colombia's president, says Adam Isacson Read more[more] |
NewsReport of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human, 4 March 2010 Global Post: A massacre exposed - murder in the jungle, 16 March 2010 US Department of State: 2009 Human Rights Reports - Colombia, 11 March 2010 Amnesty International: The Human Rights Situation in Colombia, 16 February 2010 Documentary15 years accompanying human rights defenders: A documentary by Peace Brigades International. October 2009. Watch the documentary on Vimeo.
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