concerning human rights. It also has a series of domestic laws concerning the protection of human rights. However, Colombia's human rights record often...

(LGBT) rights in Colombia have advanced significantly in the 21st century, and are now quite progressive. Consensual same-sex sexual activity in Colombia was...

together for the "Colombia: Human Rights Defenders Under Threat" campaign. The U.S. State Department's Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons placed...

trafficking refuse to assist in the prosecution of their traffickers due to fear of reprisals. "2008 Human Rights Reports: Colombia". State.gov. Archived from...

Policy in Colombia, Human Rights Watch, September 2001 Breaking the Grip?: Obstacles to Justice for Paramilitary Mafias in Colombia, Human Rights Watch...

rights advocates, artists, authors, etc. In spite of considerable de jure legal protection for the LGBTQ community in Colombia (see LGBTQ rights in Colombia)...

list in 2001, condemning it for massacres, torture, and other human rights abuses against civilians. According to the Colombian National Police, in the...

Education in Colombia includes nursery school, elementary school, high school, technical instruction and university education. The Human Rights Measurement...

Human Rights Watch, "IV. The Successor Groups’ Human Rights and Humanitarian Impact", Paramilitaries’ Heirs: The New Face of Violence in Colombia, February...

implemented in a patchy way. In 2000, Human Rights Watch, together with several Colombian human rights investigators, published a study in which it concluded that...

In 1999, the Constitutional Court of Colombia became the first court to consider the human rights implications of medical interventions to alter the sex...

religious rights. Women's rights in Colombia have been gradually developing since the early 20th Century. Women in Colombia have been very important in military...

2, 2008. Report of the High Commissioner for Human Rights on the situation of human rights in Colombia (word document). Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback...

idea that the United States has promoted respect for human rights and the rule of law in Colombia; in addition, adding to the fight against drugs and terrorism...

related to this article: Universal Declaration of Human Rights The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is an international document adopted by the...

the High Commissioner for Human Rights on the situation of human rights in Colombia" (PDF). UN Commission on Human Rights. 28 February 2005. Archived...

International human rights law (IHRL) is the body of international law designed to promote human rights on social, regional, and domestic levels. As a...

Human rights are moral principles or norms that establish standards of human behaviour and are regularly protected as substantive rights in municipal...

The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights has been present in Colombia since 1997. Since 2006 though, there has been another...

The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (the IACHR or, in the three other official languages – Spanish, French, and Portuguese – CIDH, Comisión Interamericana...

Animal rights in Colombia refers to topics related to animal rights in Colombia. The Colombian constitution does not recognize animal rights. Law 84 of...

national human rights institution (NHRI) is an independent state-based institution with the responsibility to broadly protect and promote human rights in a given...

regarding the reinstatement of the workers. Development, Peace and Human Rights in Colombia: A Business Agenda This document addresses the development of the...

Verification Mission in Colombia (UNVIC) began on 26 September 2017, following the conclusion of the United Nations Mission in Colombia. The mission supports...

A human rights defender or human rights activist is a person who, individually or with others, acts to promote or protect human rights. They can be journalists...

introduced species in Colombia. Four hippopotamuses were first kept by Pablo Escobar in his private zoo in the late 1970s, and upon his death in 1993, they were...

massacres in recent Colombian history. A Human Rights Watch article from 1994 does speak of very real abuses in Colombia, but does not mention non-Colombian sources...

Children' rights in Colombia (Spanish: Derechos de los niños en Colombia) is the status of children's rights in the Republic of Colombia. Colombia signed...

independent domestic media outlets for human rights violations. Some of the most commonly cited violations include deaths in custody, the systemic and widespread...

of Colombia is the fourth largest in Latin America as measured by gross domestic product and the third-largest economy in South America. Colombia has...