Colombia

PODCAST: Colombia Has a New President and he is Opposed to the Peace Deal

Ivan Duque won a run-off election on June 17th to become the next president of Colombia. Duque is a right of center politician who has been a sharp critic of the peace deal negotiated by president Juan Manuel Santos that...

Young People Around the World Are Increasingly Suing Governments To Protect the Environment. (And they are winning)

In 1998, researchers at Shell wrote a memo in which they predicted a series of devastating storms in the year 2010. The storms would ravage the East Coast of the United States, the memo suggested, and would be followed by...

For the first time, an International Treaty to Protect Environmental Activists

In many Latin American countries, environmental protests can be a matter of life and death for the activists involved. In a tally put out last year, the non-profit Global Witness reported that 200 people had been murdered in 2016 defending...

Peace is Breaking Out in Colombia

Colombia marked a major milestone this week in ending its 52 year-long conflict with FARC when the UN certified disarmament of the rebel group as complete. This is a step — and a very consequential one — toward an enduring...

Why Voters Rejected the Colombia Peace Deal. And What Happens Now?

The 52 year civil war in Colombia between the government and the Marxist rebel group the FARC is the longest running conflict in the Western Hemisphere. But after years of painstaking negotiations, the conflict looked as if it is finally...

How the UN is Shoring Up the Historic Peace Deal in Colombia

This week, Colombia entered into an indefinite ceasefire between the government and FARC, the largest rebel group in the country, following agreement on a comprehensive peace deal. The ceasefire marks the effective end of a 52-year long conflict that has...

PODCAST: Colombia Has a New President and he is Opposed to the Peace Deal

Young People Around the World Are Increasingly Suing Governments To Protect the Environment. (And they are winning)

For the first time, an International Treaty to Protect Environmental Activists

Peace is Breaking Out in Colombia

Why Voters Rejected the Colombia Peace Deal. And What Happens Now?

How the UN is Shoring Up the Historic Peace Deal in Colombia

Can the UN End the Longest Running Civil War in the Western Hemisphere?

A Peace Deal with Colombia’s FARC Insurgency is Tantalizingly Close

FARC Announces Immediate Ceasefire

UNAIDS and the Millennium Villages

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The Obama Agenda at the United Nations