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Regional Resources
Colombia Web Links
Below are links by topical categories to resources primarily in
English providing information on Colombia, the peace process in Colombia
and U.S. foreign policy on Colombia.
These links complement the conflict-resolution simulation exercise on Colombia
for the state-level high school winners of the Institute's National Peace Essay Contest
in June, 2000.
General Resources
- CIP Colombia Project
From the Center for International
Policy, this comprehensive web site has compiled full text documentation,
testimony, policy statements, news
and background
information regarding the U.S. aid package to Colombia and the
peace process. Links to the aid
proposal, charts the progress of the aid proposal in Congress
(with statements, hearings, committee links, etc.), and provides
the Center's analyses
and links to analyses
from other groups.
- Council
on Foreign Relations Latin America Studies Program: Colombia
Part of an internet portal to Latin American Issues and Resources developed by the Council
on Foreign Relations, it lists U.S.
government links for support for Plan Colombia, as well as links
for documents, country information, newspapers, political resources
and general information.
- LANIC: Latin American Network
Information Center (Univ. of Texas)
Resources for information in English and Spanish on Colombia
and other areas of Latin America, covering academic research, arts
and humanities, economy, government, media and news, popular culture
and travel.
Government Agencies and International Organizations
Colombia
- Embassy
of Colombia to the United States, Washington, D.C.
Includes consular, visa and travel information, information for young people, FAQs, news and media,
and links to related web sites. Contains a section on Plan Colombia: The Roadmap for Peace, with many documents in English and Spanish.
- Ministry of Foreign
Affairs
Web site includes information in Spanish covering foreign policy,
Colombia's relationship to other countries and international organizations,
Colombia's global agenda, and contact information for embassies
and consulates.
Organization of American States (OAS)
- Organization of American States (OAS)
The web site contains sections on documents, publications, organizational structure, news and several specific issues, such as Summit of the Americas and Human Rights.
United Nations
- ReliefWeb:
Colombia The Latest
ReliefWeb, a project of the
United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
(OCHA), has the latest news and information on Colombia as they relate
to humanitarian emergencies from various sources, including UN and
humanitarian agencies, wire and news services. It also includes links
to additional resources in several categories, including economics,
country profiles, development, media, and refugees, such as IDPs
in Colombia from the Norwegian Refugee Council's Global
IDP Project on internally displaced persons.
- UNHCR: Country
of Origin and Legal Information
The web site for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has databases for country of origin and legal information documents and reports. Pull-down menus allow selection by country
and/or subject and a specific search engine feature is also provided. Each country compilation includes links to country reports, legal
documents, news and maps.
- Office of the United Nations High
Commissioner for Human Rights
This web site provides keyword searches and searches by different
categories in its Treaty
Bodies Database and Charter-based
Bodies Database for documents. A search by country for Colombia
in the Charter-based Bodies Database yields a listing of documents
by year. A search by country for Colombia in the Treaty Bodies Database
yields a listing of documents by such bodies as the Committee on Torture
or the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.
United States
- Embassy
of the United States in Bogota, Colombia
This web site, primarily in Spanish with some material in English,
contains documents, press statements, articles and testimony concerning
U.S. policy on various topics. Includes the President of Colombia's
Plan
Colombia in Spanish.
- U.S.
Agency for International Development (USAID): Building Democracy
in Colombia
Background information on the situation in Colombia and the USAID
financial assistance program to address those needs. The web page
lists the the Office
of Transitional Intitiatives (OTI) Program for Colombia, which
also includes summary
information and substantive country
field reports.
- U.
S. Department of State-Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs
Includes
Support for Plan Colombia, a collection of links to press statements,
testimony, fact sheets, and related web sites, with a specific fact
sheets on Plan
Colombia.
- U.
S. Department of State: International Information Programs: U.S.
Support for Colombian Initiative Plan Colombia
This web site compiles administration testimony on Plan Colombia,
links to U.S.
policy statements and related texts on Colombia, fact sheets
on specific elements of Plan Colombia, and other web sites on such
international issues as illegal
drugs, human
rights, civic education, and the
fight against bribery and corruption, as well as regional
news from the Washington File. Also links to other related web
sites, including a regional page on The
Americas.
Maps and Guides
- CIA
World Factbook: Colombia
Country information for Colombia covering the geography, people,
economy, government, and infrastructure. Includes a map.
- Colombia
Maps
Maps for Colombia from the Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection
of the University of Texas at Austin. These maps were produced by
the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency and U.S. Department of State.
- Maps
of Colombia
List of maps for Colombia from the Norwegian Refugee Council's Global
IDP Project on internally displaced persons.
- ReliefWeb
Map Centre: Colombia
Contains maps of displaced persons, borders, projects and programs, field missions, and regional maps of Colombia.
Media and News Sources
- OneWorld.
Net: Full coverage: Colombia
Extensive database of news and analysis on Colombia, with articles contributed by OneWorld partners,
searchable by keyword, topic, and region with additional criteria for narrowing the search.
- Yahoo
News: Full Coverage: Colombia
Extensive selection of news stories, news sources, opinions and
editorials, audio and video files, and links to related organizations
(advocacy, political and civil) and other web sites.
Political Resources
- Political
Database of the Americas
Web site from Georgetown University includes links, documents, bibliographic
resources and contact information for a variety of subjects: constitutional
studies, electoral systems, civil society, political parties, and
governmental institutions. Available in four languages (English,
French, Spanish and Portuguese) from the homepage.
For information on Colombia, search by country from a pull-down
menu on the main page for each language. Also provides a search
by keyword and list of topical categories.
- Political
Resources on the Net: Colombia
Several links to three categories of web sites: political parties
(including parties in conflict in Colombia), governmental agencies
and media sources.
Selected Documents
- Colombia:
Country Report on Human Rights Practices 2002
Extensive report from the U.S. Department of State. Colombia 2002
report in Microsoft
Word format with hyperlinks is also available for downloading.
Reports for 1993-1999
and later are
also available online.
- Implementing
Plan Colombia
A special series of documents from the North-South
Center"s conference on Plan Colombia.
- International
Crisis Group: Colombia/Andes
Recent reports and briefings include Colombia and its Neighbours: the Tentacles of Instability and Colombia: Will UribeÕs Honeymoon Last? Reports are in English and Spanish.
- International
Narcotics Control Strategy Report 2002
Report on drug trafficking released by the Bureau for International
Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs, U.S. Department of State.Colombia
is listed In its section on South
America
- Peace
and Security in Colombia
A report of a July 2002 conferernce organized jointly by the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, the International Crisis Group and the U.S. Institute of Peace.
- Plan
Colombia
Full text of the document, dated October 1999, describing policy and
plans for dealing with the peace process, the economy, environment
and drug trafficking in Colombia.
- Third
Report on the Human Rights Situation in Colombia, 1999
Report from the Inter-American
Commission on Human Rights of the Organization of American States.
- Toward Greater
Peace and Security in Colombia: Forging a Constructive U.S. Policy
A 2000 independent task force report sponsored by the Council
on Foreign Relations and the Inter-American Dialogue. A related
publication is the Working
Group Report: U.S. Interests and Objectives in Colombia, A Commentary
in PDF and issued in 2000. (PDF files require Adobe®
Acrobat® Reader to view.)
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