Colombia

The prosecution said Monday that it had reached a plea agreement with several corrupt former executives of Colombia’s disaster management agency UNGRD. In the deal, the former UNGRD executives and… The post Colombia’s prosecution confirms plea deal with jailed former UNGRD chiefs appeared first on Colombia News | Colombia Reports.

The brutal petrol trade between Venezuela and Colombia in 2012 is the backdrop to Andrés Baiz’s starry if slow-paced tale of brothers navigating the futureIt’s called the “caravan of death” – cars speeding, Mad Max-style, across the desert on the border between Colombia and Venezuela, loaded up with jerry cans of petrol. Colombian film-maker […]

Unknown arsonists destroyed the home of the director of the agency that coordinates the return of stolen land to Colombia’s armed conflict victims. Land Restitution Unit (URT) director Giovani Yule… The post Arsonists set home of Colombia’s land restitution chief on fire appeared first on Colombia News | Colombia Reports.

A disagreement about peace talks with Colombia’s government caused a surprise split between commanders of guerrilla group Segunda Marquetalia (SM). The internal division became visible during negotiations with the SM’s… The post FARC dissident group splits over peace talks with Colombia’s government appeared first on Colombia News | Colombia Reports.

Colombia’s Foreign Minister Luis Gilberto Murillo paid a visit to Moscow that sought to “reactivate” ties with Russia and promote peace in Ukraine. The visit came a year before the… The post Colombia and Russia “reactivate” bilateral ties appeared first on Colombia News | Colombia Reports.

Air mass from Azores results in new world record for warmest November night above 60° latitudeRecord-breaking warmth was observed in Iceland on Monday night as temperatures reached 22.9C at a site on the Ólafsfjarðarvegur Road near Sauðanes in the far north.Other weather stations in the region recorded temperatures in the high teens and low 20s celsius, […]

Colombia’s war crimes tribunal JEP indicted six former FARC commanders for crimes committed against almost 19,000 children. The victims were either recruited or otherwise abused by the FARC between 1971… The post Colombia’s war crime tribunal indicts former FARC chiefs over child recruitment appeared first on Colombia News | Colombia Reports.

Country closes 137-year legal loophole, becoming one of 12 in Latin America and the Caribbean to entirely ban marriage for minorsColombian lawmakers have approved a bill to eradicate child marriage in the South American country after 17 years of campaigning by advocacy groups and eight failed attempts to push legislation through the house and senate.After […]

Account of the search for the young siblings after their plane crashed and how the eldest, Lesly – just 13 years old and injured – kept them alive for 40 daysIn the fairytale, Hansel and Gretel dropped pebbles and breadcrumbs. Last year, a real-life sibling group, lost in the Colombian rainforest, left a trail behind them as they wandered missing for 40 […]

Questions raised over influence after 1,261 business and industry delegates registered for biodiversity summit in ColombiaRecord numbers of business representatives and lobbyists had access to the UN’s latest biodiversity talks, analysis shows.In total 1,261 business and industry delegates registered for Cop16 in Cali, Colombia, which ended in disarray […]

Warming climate has caused rivers used for transport to dry up, leaving children with little food, water or school access, says UnicefTwo years of severe drought in the Amazon rainforest have left nearly half a million children facing shortages of water and food or limited access to school, according to a UN report.Scant rainfall and extreme heat driven by […]

Leading Colombian conservationists share their experiences working in the most dangerous country to fight for wildlifePoliticians, conservationists and business people from around the world met last week to discuss how to save nature at the Cop16 biodiversity conference in Cali, Colombia.For those working on the ground, however, it is the most dangerous […]

My mother showed me the importance of Indigenous and Afro-descendant women in protecting the natural world. Yet they continue to face barriers and discrimination in their workI learned about the importance of women in small communities from my mother. She was a peasant woman – a campesina as we say in Colombia – in the mountains near Cali, where I grew […]

Conservation summit agrees global levy on drugs from nature’s genetics and stronger indigenous representation, but developing nations furious at unmet funding promisesA global summit on halting the destruction of nature ended in disarray on Saturday, with some breakthroughs but key issues left unresolved.Governments have been meeting in Cali, Colombia, […]

As leaders gather in Colombia for the global Cop16 nature summit, photographer Dougie Wallace captures the Indigenous Arhuaco, who are deeply involved in protecting the country’s biodiversity – and who have produced the region’s first Indigenous film-makerThe Arhuaco live in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta on the Caribbean coast, which they consider […]