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RIGHTS-COLOMBIA: Less Torture, More Impunity

RIGHTS-COLOMBIA: By Helda Martínez BOGOTÁ, Nov 13 (IPS) - The number of cases of torture attributed to the armed forces in Colombia increased 80 percent from 2003 to 2008, in a context of near total impunity for such crimes. However, the ...

From HELDA MARTíNEZ, Inter Press Service,  13 Nov 2009
Related Topics: United Nations

COLOMBIA: Sexual Violence as Weapon of War

COLOMBIA: By Helda Martínez BOGOTA, Oct 21 (IPS) - Sexual violence is used as a weapon of war in Colombia by all parties in the countrys longstanding armed conflict, and its main victims are women and girls, states a report recently ...

From HELDA MARTíNEZ, Inter Press Service,  21 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia

COLOMBIA: Talking About Peace in the Middle of War

COLOMBIA: By Helda Martínez * BOGOTA, Oct 5 (IPS) - Organisations representing sectors of the Colombian population that have suffered from four decades of armed conflict, like indigenous and black communities, shared their experiences over ...

From HELDA MARTíNEZ, Inter Press Service,  5 Oct 2009
Related Topics: United Nations,  UNESCO,  Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia,  John Lindsay,  Barack Obama

FILM-COLOMBIA: A Priest's Passion for Justice

FILM-COLOMBIA: By Helda Martínez BOGOTÁ, Aug 21 (IPS) - The latest film out of Colombia is based on the true story of a priest in a rural town whose passions include a search for justice in an area that, like so many in this civil war-torn ...

From HELDA MARTíNEZ, Inter Press Service,  21 Aug 2009

COLOMBIA: Women Lead Opposition to Gold Mine

COLOMBIA: By Helda Martínez IBAGUÉ, Colombia, Aug 3 (IPS) - Women in the small Andean town of Cajamarca and the nearby city of Ibagué, in the central-west Colombian province of Tolima, are leading the struggle against a major gold mining ...

From HELDA MARTíNEZ, Inter Press Service,  3 Aug 2009
Related Topics: AngloGold Ashanti Ltd.,  U.S. House of Representatives

COLOMBIA: Displaced People Evicted From Protest Camp

COLOMBIA: By Helda Martínez BOGOTA, Jul 24 (IPS) - Thousands of displaced Colombians living in a protest camp in a park in central Bogotá are the target of an eviction plan by the local authorities, who admit they are overwhelmed by the ...

From HELDA MARTíNEZ, Inter Press Service,  24 Jul 2009
Related Topics: U N Security Council,  United Nations

COLOMBIA: Gold vs Preservation in the Central Mountains

COLOMBIA: By Helda Martínez* CAJAMARCA, Colombia, Jul 13 (Tierramérica) - In a protected area of the Cordillera Central, Colombia's central mountain range, gold mining plans are clashing with the desire of farmers, activists and ...

From HELDA MARTíNEZ, Inter Press Service,  13 Jul 2009
Related Topics: AngloGold Ashanti Ltd.,  Robert Moran

RIGHTS-COLOMBIA: Trafficking Victims’ Ordeal Never Over

RIGHTS-COLOMBIA: By Helda Martínez BOGOTA, Jun 10 (IPS) - A mixture of rage, impotence and terror is evident behind the sadness in Marías* eyes. Its been five months since she escaped from her captors in the United States, where she was ...

From HELDA MARTíNEZ, Inter Press Service,  10 Jun 2009
Related Topics: United Nations,  Ban Ki-moon

ENVIRONMENT-COLOMBIA: Coal Mine Hurts Highlands Lake, Farms

ENVIRONMENT-COLOMBIA: By Helda Martínez SUESCA, Colombia, Jun 5 (IPS) - Protests by indigenous farmers in the Colombian village of Cuayá, 75 km north of Bogotá, have failed to bring to a halt the unregulated extraction of coal, which has ...

From HELDA MARTíNEZ, Inter Press Service,  5 Jun 2009

COLOMBIA: Equal Rights for Same-Sex Partners

COLOMBIA: By Helda Martínez BOGOTA, Mar 2 (IPS) - Members of the gay civil rights advocacy group Colombia Diversa just celebrated their fifth anniversary with a big event, which the occasion clearly merited due to a recent landmark ...

From HELDA MARTíNEZ, Inter Press Service,  2 Mar 2009
Related Topics: Roman Catholic Church

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