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Country Reports on Human Rights Practices are annual publications on the human rights conditions in countries and regions outside the United States, mandated by U.S. law to be submitted annually by the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor of the United States Department of State to the United States Congress.
They reported 21 activist deaths in 2016, 208 in 2017, 282 in 2018, 253 in 2019, [3] 91 in 2020, 338 in 2021, 300 in 2022, and 289 in 2023 as of December 4. [7] At least 611 environmental defenders have been killed since the signing of the peace agreement in 2016; of these, 332 were Indigenous, and 204 of the killings took place in Cauca ...
According to the US State Department’s human rights report on NIcaragua, the government has outlawed more than 300 civil society organizations in 2023, bringing the number of closures to more ...
As reported by the National and International Campaign for the Right to Defend Human Rights, [20] and as documented regularly in reports by leading human rights organisations, . [21] [22] In 2010, according to the Colombian-based human rights organisation Somos Defensores, at least 174 acts of aggression towards human rights defenders were ...
The State Department is warning Americas to "reconsider" visiting Jamaica and Colombia due to safety risks. ... Colombia, on Dec. 2, 2021. Formerly an infamous prison island comparable to Alcatraz ...
Colombia and Panama are failing to protect hundreds of thousands of migrants who cross the Darien jungle on their way to the U.S. and have become increasingly vulnerable to robberies and sexual ...
Over 270 human rights organizations have come together for the "Colombia: Human Rights Defenders Under Threat" campaign. [6] The U.S. State Department's Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons placed the country in "Tier 1" in 2017 [7] and in 2023. [8] Colombia ratified the 2000 UN TIP Protocol in August 2004. [9] In 2023, the ...
A 1999-human rights report from the U.S. State Department said: At times the security forces collaborated with paramilitary groups that committed abuses; in some instances, individual members of the security forces actively collaborated with members of paramilitary groups by passing them through roadblocks, sharing intelligence, and providing ...