Colombia

Human Rights in Republic of Colombia

Colombia: Protection for community needed immediately
27 August 2009

Fears for the safety of members of the indigenous Awá community in Colombia have intensified after unidentified gunmen killed 12 community members, including 4 ...

Urgent Action       AMR 23/022/2009

Colombia: Three human rights defenders threatened
11 August 2009

Paramilitaries have threatened to kill three Colombian human rights defenders, whom they accuse of belonging to guerrilla groups.

Urgent Action       AMR 23/021/2009

Americas: Solutions to the historic violation of Indigenous rights ...
7 August 2009

Indigenous peoples of THE americaS. From the northern most reaches of the Arctic to the southern tip of Tierra del Fuego, Indigenous ...

Report       AMR 01/004/2009

The Wire, August/September 2009. Vol. 39, issue 004
1 August 2009

1) A wound that never heals: International Day of the Disappeared 2) Algeria: Long wait for justice 3) Livewire: Seeking justice at the UN Human Rights Council; ...

Newsletter       NWS 21/004/2009

Le Fil. Août/Septembre 2009
1 August 2009

Le Fil. Août/Septembre 2009

Newsletter       NWS 21/004/2009

Colombia: Further information: Court orders suspension of eviction ...
20 July 2009

Members of the Afro-descendant community of Caracolí, in the Curvaradó region of Chocó Department, were not served with a threatened eviction notice on 18 June ...

Urgent Action       AMR 23/020/2009

Colombia: More people forced to flee their homes because of the ...
16 July 2009

Amnesty International today denounced yet another dramatic increase inthe number of Colombians forced to leave their homes because of thearmed conflict and urged ...

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Colombia: Everything Left Behind: Internal displacement in ...
16 July 2009

Each year, hundreds of thousands of people join the millions already internally displaced in Colombia. In the face of the continued violence and displacement, the ...

Report       AMR 23/015/2009

Thousands more people forced to flee from Colombia’s armed ...
16 July 2009

With around another 380000 Colombians having to leave their homes in 2008, the number of internally displaced people in the country is amongst the world's highest ...

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Colombia: Fear for safety
24 June 2009

The family of an Indigenous leader, campaigning for land rights in the south-western Department of Cauca, has received a death threat. Other Indigenous leaders ...

Urgent Action       AMR 23/018/2009