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Human Rights in Republic of Colombia

Colombia: Paramilitaries threaten women's organization
4 February 2010

A Colombian paramilitary group has threatened to kill the members of a women's human rights organization. The threat declares them a military target and says there ...

Urgent Action       AMR 23/004/2010

Colombia: Seeking justice: the mothers of Soacha
22 January 2010

Revelations in 2008 that the security forces had extrajudicially executed dozens of young men from Soacha, a poor neighbourhood near the capital Bogotá, forced ...

Document       AMR 23/002/2010

Colombia: Amnesty condemns killing of Caquetá governor | Amnesty ...
23 December 2009

Amnesty International today condemned the kidnapping and killing of Luis Francisco Cuéllar Carvajal, Governor of the Colombian department of Caquetá in the south ...

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Governor killed in Colombia | Amnesty International
23 December 2009

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Colombia: Six Colombians threatened via text message
10 December 2009

Six men in Cauca department, western Colombia, including Afro-descendant and Indigenous community leaders, all received the same threatening SMS (text) message ...

Urgent Action       AMR 23/031/2009

Colombia: Human rights lawyer at risk: Jorge Molano
7 December 2009

Human rights lawyer Jorge Molano is involved in a high-profile prosecution of a former army officer. He is being followed, and he and his family are in grave danger ...

Urgent Action       AMR 23/030/2009

Write for rights: Take action against human rights abuses
5 December 2009

Amnesty International’s Write for Rights action takes place every year on and around International Human Rights Day on 10 December. Each year, people around the ...

Document       ACT 30/008/2009

Colombia: The Peace Community of San José de Apartadó (Letter ...
5 December 2009

Members of the Peace Community of San José de Apartadó in Colombia have been the focus of suspicion and hostility from all parties to the armed conflict since the ...

Document       AMR 23/023/2009

Colombia: Human rights defender's life in danger
27 November 2009

The life of Luz Elsia Almanza, a female human rights defender in Colombia, is in danger, after a paramilitary group declared her to be a "military target". Luz ...

Urgent Action       AMR 23/029/2009

Colombia: Colombian human rights defender at risk
9 November 2009

Female human rights defender Ingrid Vergara has received death threats and her daughter, 14-year-old Cendy Torres Vergara, has been followed by unknown individuals ...

Urgent Action       AMR 23/027/2009