Youth recruitment in Colombia is driven by a fractioning criminal underworld. The systematic recruiting of minors continues to be a strategy for non-state armed actors in Colombia to bolster their ...

As in the darkest days of Colombia’s civil conflict, armed groups across the country continue to enlist and exploit teenagers. In this, the first of a three-part investigation by InSight Crime about ...

The last time Marta saw her 14-year-old son was three months ago – he was wearing rebel army fatigues and holding a rifle as he marched down the street with the other child soldiers. She ran to the ...

BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombia's government must increase efforts to stop armed groups from recruiting children, as it pushes for peace and surrender deals with rebels and crime gangs, think tank ...

Bogota, Colombia – Eight underage rebel recruits were killed last week after the Colombian government launched a fresh military offensive against a prominent armed group, according to President ...

CALDONO, Colombia — When Patricia Elago Zetty’s 13-year-old son went missing in Colombia’s conflict-ridden southwest, she didn’t hesitate. Elago and five fellow members of the Indigenous Guard trekked ...

BOGOTA, Feb 12 (Reuters) - Illegal armed groups in Colombia are using forcibly recruited children and adolescents as "war machines" and sexual slaves amid ongoing internal conflict in the country, the ...

The commanders of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) have often tried to whitewash the guerrillas’ role in recruiting children and other serious human rights abuses, including sexual ...

Colombian soldiers stand in formation as war material seized from a dissident group of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) is displayed in Cucuta [File: Carlos Eduardo Ramirez/Reuters] ...

CALDONO, Colombia — When Patricia Elago Zetty's 13-year-old son went missing in Colombia's conflict-ridden southwest, she didn't hesitate. Elago and five fellow members of the Indigenous Guard trekked ...