In this written statement to the 13th session of the Human Rights Council Amnesty International presented an overview of its concerns with human rights in Colombia. This statement provides further information on the serious situation faced by human rights defenders in the country. Because of their work, human rights defenders and members of their families continue to be killed, abducted and subjected to enforced disappearance, threatened, stigmatized, harassed, arbitrarily detained, placed under surveillance, or have their offices broken into and sensitive case information stolen.
