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Some 181 community activists were murdered in Colombia in 2023, the human rights ombudsman's office said on Tuesday, calling the situation a tragedy. The number of murdered activists, known as ...
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.
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 ...
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 Department. [8] Cauca Department is at the forefront of violence against Indigenous peoples in Colombia, with 40% of Indigenous activists having been killed in Cauca.
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 ...
BOGOTA (Reuters) -Colombia, host nation for this year's United Nations COP16 biodiversity conference, was the deadliest country for environmentalists and land rights defenders in 2023, with a ...
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 ...