On 10 September Jani Silva, a defender of land, territory and the environment and the president of ADISPA, an organization managing a peasant reserve zone in the Colombian Amazon (department of Putumayo), received a phone call threatening to “blow you up, car and all”. Jani and ADISPA have protection measures in place, provided by the government’s National Protection Unit (UNP). The threats make direct reference to killing her by attacking the armoured vehicles provided for her protection, possibly using explosives. We call on the Colombian authorities to respond to these threats by conducting robust and effective investigations to identify those responsible and bring them to justice, with due process guarantees, and by providing timely and comprehensive protection to this human rights defender and her community, addressing the structural causes of the violence they face.
