Oct 19, 2024, at 10:04 pm
Cultivation of coca bush in Colombia increased by 10 per cent in 2023 to 253,000 hectares, while potential cocaine production reached 2,664 metric tons, according to a new survey released by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) on Friday.
Nov 12, 2023, at 09:04 pm
Colombia is emerging as one of the first nations in the world to introduce 'junk food law' which might help tackle lifestyle disease, media reports said.
Colombia stepping up efforts achieve historic peace goals, UN envoy says
Oct 13, 2023, at 05:42 am
As Colombia prepares to mark the seventh anniversary of the peace agreement that ended the decades-long conflict there, the Government has increased its efforts to realize the accord’s goals, the UN envoy for the country said on Wednesday.
Addicted to war, power and greed, humanity is ‘killing itself’, warns Colombian President
Sep 20, 2023, at 09:29 pm
Colombian President Gustavo Petro on Tuesday called at the UN General Assembly for peace summits to resolve conflicts in Ukraine and between Israel and the Palestinians, so the international community could focus instead on addressing climate change, which he said was “the mother of all crises”.
Colombia: UN Mission to monitor ceasefire with ELN rebel group
Aug 04, 2023, at 09:57 pm
New York: The Security Council on Wednesday unanimously voted to expand the mandate of the UN Verification Mission in Colombia to monitor a ceasefire between the Government and the largest remaining rebel group in the country.
Colombia: Death toll from avalanche rises to 29
Jul 29, 2023, at 05:30 pm
Bogota/UNI: The death toll from the avalanche in the Colombian municipality of Quetame has gone up to 29, regional fire authorities inform.
Colombia air crash miracle: 4 children found alive after 40 days
Jun 10, 2023, at 11:59 pm
Bogota: Four Colombian children, who went missing after their plane crashed on May 1, have been rescued after 40 days from the Amazon jungle.
Colombia plane crash: Children rescued from Amazon jungle after 40 days
Jun 10, 2023, at 07:23 pm
Bogota: Four children, who were missing after a plane crash 40 days ago, have been found in Colombia's Amazon jungle, media reports said.
Colombia: Implementing peace deal, promoting dialogue ‘inextricably linked’
Apr 14, 2023, at 07:21 pm
New York: Fully implementing the agreement that ended five decades of conflict in Colombia and promoting dialogue with armed groups to reduce violence are critical to consolidate peace in the country, UN Special Representative Carlos Ruiz Massieu told the Security Council on Thursday.
Curbing ‘expressions of violence’ a key to peace in Colombia: Guterres
Apr 11, 2023, at 09:51 pm
New York: Secretary-General António Guterres has underscored the importance of implementing the Peace Agreement in Colombia, and advancing dialogue, in his latest quarterly report on the UN Mission in the country, published on Monday.
Colombia: UN mission to verify rural reform and indigenous representation in peace process
Jan 13, 2023, at 11:11 pm
New York: There are plentiful opportunities ahead for peacebuilding in Colombia, the head of the UN Verification Mission in the country told the Security Council on Wednesday.
Step up protection for activists who challenge big business in Colombia
Aug 06, 2022, at 09:43 pm
New York: Activists who raise concerns about business projects in Colombia are under serious threat for speaking out, and UN human rights experts are urging the government to do much more to protect them.
Training offers a way out of poverty for young victims of Colombian conflict
Feb 19, 2022, at 11:12 pm
New York: Camilo Vergara is one of hundreds of young Colombians benefiting from a UN programme aimed at pulling victims of the country’s former conflict out of poverty, and into stable employment.
Colombia: Children still ‘used and abused’ despite historic peace accord
Jan 15, 2022, at 01:35 am
New York: Despite a steady decrease in grave violations against children in Colombia since the signing of the 2016 Peace Agreement between the Government and FARC rebels, youngsters there continue to suffer from the impact of hostilities, according to a new UN report published on Wednesday.
Colombia: Security officials capture most wanted drug lord Otoniel
Oct 24, 2021, at 10:58 pm
Bogota: Colombian security officials have arrested the country's most wanted drug trafficker.
Colombians cling tenaciously to peace gains, Security Council hears
Oct 15, 2021, at 07:46 pm
New York: Five years after an historic Peace Agreement was reached in Colombia, the process continues to show the benefits of ending the conflict through negotiation and keeping victims at the heart of the discussion moving forward.
Colombia calls for global financial consensus to avert COVID debt crisis
Sep 22, 2021, at 09:12 pm
New York: The President of Colombia on Tuesday warned that many developing countries have increased their fiscal deficit to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic, putting at risk their financial capacity to act on other priorities, such as climate change.
Colombia peace process at critical juncture: UN envoy
Jul 14, 2021, at 11:13 pm
New York: Events that were previously unthinkable in Colombia have been made possible through the historic 2016 peace agreement, the UN envoy for the country told the Security Council on Tuesday.
Colombia: UN rights chief calls for an end to all forms of violence in Cali
May 31, 2021, at 04:55 am
New York: The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet voiced her “deep concern” at recent events in the Colombian city of Cali that include reports of several deaths and violence.
Rights experts call for probe into violent crackdown on Colombia protests
May 15, 2021, at 01:45 pm
New York: Independent human rights experts appointed by the UN and the Organization of American States (OAS) have called for the Colombian Government to conduct a thorough and impartial investigation into the violent crackdown on recent peaceful protests in the country.
UN chief welcomes Colombia’s ‘act of solidarity’ with 1.7 million Venezuelans
Feb 10, 2021, at 03:49 pm
New York: The United Nations Secretary-General, on Monday, applauded the announcement by the President of Colombia that the country will provide temporary protection to all Venezuelans in its territory.
UN chief welcomes Colombia’s ‘act of solidarity’ with 1.7 million Venezuelans
Feb 09, 2021, at 09:59 pm
New York: The United Nations Secretary-General, on Monday, applauded the announcement by the President of Colombia that the country will provide temporary protection to all Venezuelans on its territory.
UN documents 375 killings in Colombia in 2020, urges Government action
Dec 16, 2020, at 04:03 pm
New York: The United Nations has recorded the deaths of 255 people in 66 massacres in Colombia this year, as well as the killing of 120 human rights defenders, the Office of the Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) said on Tuesday.
Women the ‘driving force’ for peacebuilding in Colombia: Deputy UN chief
Oct 31, 2020, at 03:09 pm
New York: The UN deputy chief has underscored the importance of the full and comprehensive implementation of Colombia's historic 2016 peace agreement, to enable sustainable and resilient communities in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.
Colombian police arrest former FARC member who resumed criminal activity - President
Jul 26, 2020, at 12:46 pm
Buenos Aires/Sputnik: The Colombian police have caught a former member of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), said to have continued engaging in criminal activities even after the group's disarmament, President Ivan Duque said.
Apr 15, 2020, at 01:25 pm
While political actors in Colombia are uniting to confront COVID-19, they must also work together to fight “the epidemic of violence” against civil society leaders, human rights defenders and former combatants, the head of the UN mission in the country said on Tuesday during a Security Council meeting held by videoconference.
Eleven killed, 4 injured in Colombia's coal mine explosion
Apr 05, 2020, at 10:23 am
Mexico City,/UNI: A methane explosion at a coal mine in the central Colombian department of Cundinamarca damaged three nearby mines and caused the collapse of one of them, resulting in 11 deaths.
Car explosion on highway in western Colombia kills 7, injures 11: Local Army Chief
Feb 18, 2020, at 05:01 pm
Moscow/Sputnik/UNI: At least seven people have died, and 11 others were injured as a result of a car explosion in western Colombia, Major General Jorge Isaacs Hoyos Rojas, a local army commander, said on Tuesday.
Colombia: ‘Staggering number’ of human rights defenders killed in 2019
Jan 15, 2020, at 09:44 am
New York/IBNS: The UN human rights office, OHCHR, is “deeply troubled by the staggering number of human rights defenders killed in Colombia” last year, its spokesperson said on Tuesday.
Colombia: ‘Significant strides’ towards integrated peace, UN envoy tells Security Council
Jan 14, 2020, at 09:31 am
New York/IBNS: Colombia has continued to make “significant strides in its peace process”, the top UN envoy in the country told the Security Council on Monday.