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By Laia Mataix Gomez Bogota, Dec 28 (EFE).- “Neither eradicating nor handing out money” has proven effective in persuading Colombian peasants to abandon cultivation of coca, the raw material of cocaine, the head of the Andean nation’s crop-substitution effort told EFE. Felipe Tascon, appointed earlier this month as director of the National Comprehensive Program for …

Towards Implementation of Women’s Rights in the Colombian Final Peace Accord: Progress, opportunities and challenges Format Executive summary 2020 marks the fourth year of implementation of the Colombian Final Accord, the 20th anniversary of the signing of UN Security Council Resolution 1325, and 25 years since the Beijing Platform for Action. This report considers the gender commitments located in the text of the Final Accord as identified by the Kroc Institute, their implementation progress...

URL copied to clipboard A report presented in August 2020 by Colombian senators and representatives of the opposition recounted where the Agreement was in terms of its implementation, four years after it was signed. Four months after that devastating report, statistics on violence remain staggering and, what represented a great and historic opportunity for Colombia, has witnessed an incomprehensible stagnation on some of its key points. According to the report, the country has seen an impor...

What’s new? Crime and violence have simmered along the lengthy Colombian-Venezuelan frontier for decades. But the regional spillover of Venezuela’s political conflict and economic collapse has caused ties between the two states to fray as well, amid border closures, a migrant exodus and rival military exercises. Why does it matter? Numerous armed groups clash with one another and harm citizens along a border marked by abundant coca crops and informal crossings. High bilateral tensions c...