Andrés Bermúdez Liévano

Colombia - Correspondent

Colombia

30 August 2019 by Andrés Bermúdez Liévano

Sexual violence, the new punching bag in the Colombian transition (Part 1) The number of registered victims of sexual violence in relation to the armed conflict in Colombia has jumped fivefold in the past 5 years. Given the former FARC’s increasingly documented record of sexual abuse, the discussion has [...]

Colombia

30 July 2019 by Andrés Bermúdez Liévano

In Colombia, transitional justice is caught up in politics One year after he came into office, Colombia’s president Iván Duque has failed to directly modify a central institution of the transitional justice process, the Special Jurisdiction for Peace, known as JEP. But the legal offensive [...]

Colombia

27 May 2019 by Andrés Bermúdez Liévano

War, park rangers and the hopes of Colombia’s transitional justice What if Colombia’s Special Peace Jurisdiction and Truth Commission investigate the environmental damages caused by conflict, from attacks on pipelines to the murder of park rangers? Environmental lawyers think that there is a uniq [...]