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Colombia and Panama are failing to protect hundreds of thousands of migrants who cross the Darien jungle on their way to the U.S. and have become increasingly vulnerable to robberies and sexual ...
BOGOTA (Reuters) -Colombia's human rights ombudsman on Friday urged local authorities of high-risk areas for wildfires to take preventative action, while the environment minister warned the Andean ...
Some 181 community activists were murdered in Colombia in 2023, the human rights ombudsman's office said on Tuesday, calling the situation a tragedy. The number of murdered activists, known as ...
In June 2015, Human Rights Watch presented a report on the scandal. [ 21 ] [ 22 ] At that point, about 800 people, mostly ordinary soldiers, had been convicted in related cases. The report criticized that the majority of cases had been handled by military courts, in contradiction to a Supreme Court ruling.
From 2010 to 2015, Hassan was a senior researcher in Human Rights Watch's Emergencies Division, responsible for human rights investigations in the Middle East, Asia, and Africa. [7] In 2011 while conducting a research mission in Indonesia , Hassan was detained with fellow HRW researcher Andreas Harsono while investigating persecution and ...
Colombia faces high vulnerability to climate change. [30] Populations in the Andes are at risk of both increased precipitation rates and droughts, while those in the coastal regions face increases in flooding and erosion. [30] Climate disasters put Colombia's economy at risk, with potential to impact livestock, farmlands, and infrastructure. [30]
The National Army of Colombia re-enters the corregimiento of El Plateado in Argelia, Cauca Department, Colombia, in an attempt to clear the corregimiento of FARC dissidents. Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. At least eleven people are killed and eight others are injured in tribal clashes in Kurram District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.
BOGOTA (Reuters) -Colombia, host nation for this year's United Nations COP16 biodiversity conference, was the deadliest country for environmentalists and land rights defenders in 2023, with a ...