FARC insist they are a political organization, so FARC obliged to respect...
As a political organization, the FARC currently sit at a negotiating table with the state, and hence, the FARC are obliged to respect International Humanitarian Law. In short, this means they cannot...
View ArticleState should demand FARC release all children, alongside Gen. Alzate’s release.
What sort of government leadership demands the release of a high-ranking general but not of minors? It’s International Children’s Day today. If the Colombian State did care about children’s rights, the...
View ArticleICC’s eyes on Colombia’s Transitional Justice.
The International Criminal Court recently warned Colombia that any peace agreements, including the Legal Framework for Peace, that are not compatible with the Rome Statute will be reviewed by the...
View ArticleInvestment in early childhood education cuts crime & boosts economy.
The Colombian government spends US $90 million a year on the Agency for Reintegration (ACR) for the program to help former combatants demobilize and reintegrate and find their way as civilians. It's...
View ArticleAt what stage in their socialization are children “recruited” into an armed...
Finally, today, after two and a half years of official negotiations between the government of Juan Manuel Santos and the FARC, the FARC have agreed to not recruit children under 17 years of age....
View ArticleICC looking to address sexual and gender-based crimes
“We have seen that war crimes -- rape and other -- and sexual- and gender-based crimes -- are used -- is used as weapons of war. It is used as weapons to repress, to humiliate, to destroy the social...
View ArticleAmerican troops and contractors, who sexually assaulted 54 under-age...
Between 2003 and 2007, fifty-four under age Colombian girls were sexually assaulted by American troops and contractors stationed in Colombia, serving under Plan Colombia. The perpetrators continue in...
View ArticleU.S. army criminal investigators to probe allegations of sexual abuse of...
Chris Grey, spokesman for the Army's Criminal Investigation Command, told USA Today: “Special agents from the U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Command are currently coordinating with Colombian...
View ArticleIncluding the Male Gender Perspective in Post-Conflict Projects.
“When I left for the army, I remember that my aunts, my uncles and my mother said, Go because over there you will become a man, over there you will become a worthy man.”
View ArticleVideos from 2014 show FARC continue training minors – despite peace talks.
Last week, FARC negotiators said that though they agreed to stop recruiting children under 17, they never agreed to release children already in the group. Videos from late 2014 show camps, where minors...
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