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Amnesty International  Report 2012


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Colombia: Land rights defenders receive death threats
9 October 2012

Colombian NGOs and human rights defenders working on land restitution issues around the country have been subject to numerous death threats in recent weeks. The ...

Urgent Action       AMR 23/039/2012

Colombia: Hidden from justice: Impunity for conflict-related ...
4 October 2012

Conflict-related sexual violence against women and girls in Colombia has long been a largely hidden human rights tragedy. Amnesty International's 2011 report showed ...

Report       AMR 23/031/2012

Colombian authorities fail to stop or punish sexual violence ...
4 October 2012

The Colombian authorities have failed to make real progress in bringing to justice those responsible for conflict-related sexual crimes.

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Colombia: End impunity for sexual violence in Colombia's conflict
4 October 2012

Women and girls have been targeted for sexual violence by members of all the warring parties in Colombia's long-running armed conflict. For decades, these crimes ...

Postcard       AMR 23/034/2012

Colombian defenders at risk after threats
17 September 2012

A member of the Association for Relatives of the Detained-Disappeared (ASFADDES), Luz Elsia Almanza Suárez, was threatened by a paramilitary group on 6 September ...

Urgent Action       AMR 23/035/2012

Enforced Disappearances in the Americas are a crime of the present ...
29 August 2012

In the Americas, enforced disappearances are not just an issue of the past, with much still to be done for justice to be delivered to the victims and their relatives ...

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Amnesty International | Colombia: Conviction for conflict-related ...
28 August 2012

A civilian court's conviction of a Colombian junior army officer for the murder and rape of a girl is a rare victory for those campaigning against impunity for ...

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Colombia: Conviction for conflict-related rape and murders 'a rare ...
28 August 2012

A civilian court's conviction of a Colombian junior army officer for the murder and rape of a girl is a rare victory.

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Americas: Right to consultation and consent of Indigenous peoples ...
27 August 2012

This statement, to the 21st session of the UN Human Rights Council, encapsulates one of the main challenges Indigenous peoples face when their ancestral territories ...

Document       AMR 01/007/2012

Colombian human rights activists threatened
24 August 2012

LGBTI activists, trade unionists, victims associations and human rights defenders in Barrancabermeja, Northern Colombia, have received death threats from paramilitaries ...

Urgent Action       AMR 23/030/2012