Subject: Human Rights Watch Amicus Curiae on abuses against human rights defenders
José Miguel Vivanco, on behalf of Human Rights Watch, located at 350 Fifth Avenue, 34th floor, New York, United States, presents this amicus brief to the Honorable Constitutional Court of Colombia in the case T8018193, 11001310304520200002500 concerning ongoing abuses against human rights defenders and social leaders in Colombia. We respectfully state:
Purpose and Summary of this Submission
Human Rights Watch respectfully requests that the Colombian Constitutional Court accept this submission and consider its factual and legal arguments, which are relevant to the court’s assessment of this case.
Human Rights Watch regularly monitors the human rights situation in Colombia, including killings and other abuses against human rights defenders and social leaders in the country. Most recently, in February 2021, Human Rights Watch published a comprehensive report documenting killings of human rights
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Odicio, 35, is the leader of the Cacataibo tribe in Peru s central Amazon.
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Herlin Odicio has lived a life in defense of his tribe s territory. As a consequence, he now finds himself in exile from it. Just a few days ago they came looking for me in my community, he said. They send me death threats by text. They say they re going to make me disappear.
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The isolated Cacataibo village of Sinchi Roca has witnessed waves of coca growers converging on their territory. Earlier this year, Cacataibo villager Herasmo Garcia Grau was murdered by suspected drug traffickers here.
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AMA, comprising mothers and relatives of the victims of the anti-government demonstrations that broke out 3 years ago, denounced that its president was arrested in the city of Esteli, 149 kilometers north of Managua, along with Stephanie Martinez, Marcos Silva and Ana Rivera.
AMA published a video in which a dozen police officers, including riot police, forcibly detain the 3 women and a man, and push them into a patrol car.
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Mexico fell short on human rights file in 2020: international rights commission Report cites a gap between laws protecting human rights and Mexicans actual experience
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The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) has criticized the Mexican government for failing to guarantee the human rights of a wide range of people last year.
In its 2020 annual report, the IACHR said the government didn’t implement the measures needed to protect the rights of women, children and adolescents, indigenous people, migrants, prisoners, human rights defenders, journalists and members of the LGBTI community.