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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 ...
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 ...
The 2011 report from the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights for Colombia reports that 'the prosecution and arbitrary detentions of human rights defenders on the basis of uncorroborated information provided mainly by informants, demobilized persons and military intelligence reports, continue to be of concern'. [48]
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 ...
The Special Jurisdiction of Peace (Jurisdicción Especial para la Paz, JEP) would be the transitional justice component of the Comprehensive System, complying with Colombia's duty to investigate, clarify, prosecute and punish serious human rights violations and grave breaches of international humanitarian law which occurred during the armed ...
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 ...
In 1997 a permanent office was created in order to execute more direct observations and advice to the government of Colombia. The Office of the Presidential adviser for Human Rights’ job was and still is to monitor, respond to complaints, and travel to witness first-hand accounts of human rights violations.
1 January – Colombia and Venezuela agrees to reopen the last remaining border that has been previously blocked by authorities due to worsening ties. [1] 20 January – A Dominican man who was lost in the Caribbean Sea for 24 days is rescued by the Colombian Navy. [2] 19 January –12 February: 2023 South American U-20 Championship [3]