UN closes three offices in Colombia due to “financial cuts”

Published at: 23/06/2025 10:04 PM

The office in Colombia of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights today confirmed the closure of three regional offices in the country, for which it will lay off 46 employees due to financial cuts.

According to a statement, the offices that will close are located in the departments of Antioquia, Chocó and Córdoba, in northwestern Colombia, and in Guaviare, Meta, Huila, Tolima and Caquetá, in the south of the nation.

As reported by the Prensa Latina web portal, “the office of the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Organization is beginning a process to make its mandate in Colombia as efficient as possible, and to cover from Bogotá the territories in which it will not be able to maintain a permanent presence,” the document states.

After making the closing decision effective, the agency will maintain five offices, one of them in Bogotá and four other regional offices, covering the departments of Cauca, Valle del Cauca, Nariño, Putumayo, Arauca, Norte de Santander, Cesar, La Guajira, Sucre, Magdalena, Bolívar and Atlántico.

Mazo News Team