Comprehensive plan of investigative and judicial actions due to the outbreak of violence in the region of Catatumbo
On the occasion of the outbreak of violence in the region of Catatumbo, in Norte de Santander, the Attorney General's Office launched a week ago an action plan which coordinates the investigative, judicial and victim assistance capabilities.
In this way, with the...
Six pre-Columbian archaeological pieces associated with Quimbaya, Tierradentro and ‘Los Pastos’ predecessors cultures were recovered and handed over for safekeeping
It is about pots, vases and funerary containers of high cultural value that were in the possession of a Colombian citizen living in Peru.
The Colombian Institute of Anthropology and History (El Instituto Colombiano de Antropología e Historia...
The Office of the Attorney General, the Minister of Justice and the Ombudsperson joined forces to promote the implementation of the Public Utility Law
This law seeks to ensure that women convicted of crimes committed in a marginal context serve their sentence with community work.
The Attorney General, Luz Adriana Camargo Garzón, outlined guidelines for prosecutors to promote and request judicial authorities to...
The Supreme Court of Justice, the Attorney General’s Office and the Ministry of Justice submitted a bill that aims at restoring balance, opportunity and effectiveness of criminal justice
The president of the Supreme Court of Justice, Gerson Chaverra Castro; the Attorney General Luz Adriana Camargo Garzón, and the Minister of Justice, Ángela María Buitrago Ruiz, submitted a bill to the Senate of the Republic whose purpose is...
Special Task Force of the Attorney General’s Office to investigate crimes against youth in Chocó
The Attorney General Luz Adriana Camargo Garzón and the director of USAID, Anu Rajaraman, held a meeting with mothers, care providers and young people from Quibdó to analyze the issue of violence in Chocó that has been mainly affecting...
Attorney General strengthens judicial cooperation with the United States
At the end of her first series of work meetings in this city with high-level authorities from the United States and the Inter-American Human Rights System, the Attorney General, Luz Adriana Camargo Garzón, ratified the recent commitments she made...
The Attorney General appointed the first directors of her administration
The Attorney General, Luz Adriana Camargo Garzón, appointed the first directors who will accompany her administration to accomplish the five pillars that she has established to guarantee access to criminal justice and improve the institution's response capacity in the...
Luz Adriana Camargo took office as the new Attorney General
The head of the institution stated that her management will be aimed at achieving a transition towards a society based on respect and harmony, in which crime and criminality are not an option.
“We are going to carry...
The Attorney General, Francisco Barbosa Delgado, participated in Executive Commision of Iberred and the XIII assembly of COMJIB ( Constitución de la Comisión Ejecutiva de Iberred y la XXIII Asamblea Plenaria de la COMJIB)
The Ibero-American Network for International Legal Cooperation (Red Iberoamericana de Cooperación Jurídica Internacional - IberRed) seeks to strengthen legal cooperation in criminal and civil matters, as well as to facilitate and expedite communication between the Ibero-America judicial authorities
On June...
Press Release 309
Considering the events that occurred on February 3, when twelve heavily armed men kidnapped and interrogated three prosecutors from the Sectional Directorate of Department of Antioquia and a public servant from the town of Tarazá’s Court, while the victims...