Five social leaders get assassinated every week in Colombia
Five social leaders get assassinated every week in Colombia
Bogota, Apr 5 (Prensa Latina) Five social leaders, former members of Colombia s Revolutionary Armed Forces (FARC) had been assassinated weekly from November 1, 2016 to June 30, 2020, notes a report released here on Monday. In that period, 944 murders of people linked to those sectors (including human rights defenders) had been reported, the Forjando Futuros Foundation, the Inter-Church Commission for Justice and Peace, the Somos Defensores program, the Institute of Studies for Development and Peace and the Colombian Commission of Jurists reveal in the text.
There are three patterns related to the crimes: systematization, stigmatization and impunity set out the non-governmental organizations (NGOs), while summarizing the 66 sentences pronounced on those guilty - only seven percent out of all registered cases - for which they criticized the work of the Prosecuto
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Colombia: the ‘false positive’ number that sets off a political storm
9 March 2021By Andrés Bermúdez Liévano, our correspondent in Colombia
Colombia’s Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) has published key findings, including an incomplete and stunning number of civilians murdered by the military and passed off as rebels killed in combat – the infamous “false positives”. Victims can feel vindicated for their long-held complaints. But former president Uribe – under whose watch false positives spiked and dropped – and his allies are calling it a witch hunt.
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MORNING 9 March 2021
Concludes Interactive Dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
The Human Rights Council this morning heard the presentation of a series of thematic reports by the Secretary-General and High Commissioner for Human Rights, followed by a general debate on its agenda item on the promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development.
Peggy Hicks, Director of the Thematic Engagement, Special Procedures and Right to Development Division of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, presented nine thematic reports by the Secretary-General of the United Nations and the High Commissioner for Human Rights. The reports focused on the realization in all countries of economic, social and cultural rights; the relationship