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Colombian state agents ‘intentionally’ killed 15 civilians in 2020: US State Department Other major issues addressed in the State Department report include cases of mass forced displacement of communities, with more than 37,000 people driven from their homes in 2019 and more than 15,000 between January and August 2020. It highlighted collusion between state security personnel and illegal armed groups, with nine agents accused of relations with paramilitaries   At least 15 civilians were intentionally killed by Colombian state agents between January and August last year, according to a ne...

Judicial Resilience in the Case of Jineth Bedoya The Inter-American Court of Human Rights Responds to the Revictimizing Challenge of Colombia   On March 15, in an extraordinary act of resistance to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACtHR), Colombian representatives withdrew from the proceedings on the first day of the public hearings in the case of Jineth Bedoya Lima and Other v. Colombia. The case concerns the abduction, rape, and torture of journalist and human rights defender Jineth Bedoya Lima committed in 2000 during a work visit to the prison “La Modelo” in Bogotá. Colom...

Journalist blames Colombia for her rape and torture

Colombia revictimizes and impedes access to justice for Jineth Bedoya Lima 3 minute read Journalist Jineth Bedoya Lima, Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, 12 March 2018, Photo: stephan-roehl.de, Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic (CC BY-SA 2.0) Colombia's National Agency for Legal Defense alleged that the majority of the Inter-American Court’s judges are not impartial in the case. The State decided to leave the hearing, and the State’s witness did not appear to testify before the Court. This joint statement by FLIP and CEJIL was originally publish...

  TORONTO -- The COVID-19 pandemic, historic anti-racism protests and a tumultuous U.S. election dominated headlines over the past year. CTV News looks back at some of the events that made 2020 a year unlike any other. JANUARY IRANIAN GENERAL QASEM SOLEIMANI KILLED Protesters chant slogans while holding up posters of Gen. Qassem Soleimani during a demonstration in front of the British Embassy in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, Jan. 12, 2020. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi) WUHAN GOES INTO LOCKDOWN People wearing face masks walk down a deserted street in Wuhan in central China's Hubei Province, Tuesd...