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Amnesty International  Report 2012


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Colombia: Authorities must ensure safety of judge in key human ...
3 May 2011

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC STATEMENT Index: AMR 23/014/2011. 03 May 2011 Colombia: Authorities must ensure safety of judge in key ...

Public Statement       AMR 23/014/2011

Colombia: Human rights defenders at risk
21 April 2011

On 14 April two men tried to break into the home of Zoraida Hernández, President of human rights NGO Corporación Sembrar, in Bogotá, Colombia. Amnesty International ...

Urgent Action       AMR 23/012/2011

Colombia: Further information: Daughter of Colombian defender ...
20 April 2011

On 13 April Cendy Torres Vergara, daughter of human rights defender Ingrid Vergara, received new death threats by telephone. Her mother is one of the leaders of ...

Urgent Action       AMR 23/013/2011

Colombia: Further information: Environmentalist receives death ...
14 April 2011

Hildebrando Vélez, an environmentalist who has played a leading role in campaigning to establish the whereabouts of Sandra Viviana Cuellar Gallego, also an ...

Urgent Action       AMR 23/011/2011

Colombian Peace Community threatened
5 April 2011

The Peace Community of San José de Apartadó in north-western Colombia has been repeatedly threatened by paramilitaries. Following the killing of Bernardo Londoño ...

Urgent Action       AMR 23/009/2011

Colombia: Further information: Daughter of Colombian defender ...
31 March 2011

Cendy Torres Vergara, the daughter of human rights defender Ingrid Vergara, has received death threats by telephone. Her mother is one of the leaders of the National ...

Urgent Action       AMR 23/008/2011

Colombia: Paramilitaries kill human rights defender: Eder Verbel ...
30 March 2011

On 23 March two paramilitaries shot at Orlando Enrique Verbel Rocha, Eder Verbel Rocha and his son in San Onofre municipality in Northern Colombia. Eder Verbel ...

Urgent Action       AMR 23/007/2011

Colombia: Family and human rights NGO threatened
25 March 2011

On 24 March 2011, the family of a girl who was allegedly raped by an army officer and subsequently killed along with her two brothers received a death threat. An ...

Urgent Action       AMR 23/006/2011

Colombia: Human rights defender threatened: Nancy Fiallo Araque
16 March 2011

Human rights defender Nancy Fiallo Araque has in the past few months received repeated telephone death threats and has been followed in Bogotá, Colombia. She and ...

Urgent Action       AMR 23/005/2011

Colombian human rights defender threatened: Luz Marina Hache
3 March 2011

Luz Marina Hache and other members of MOVICE, an organization that is campaigning for justice for the victims of the armed conflict in Colombia, have received death ...

Urgent Action       AMR 23/004/2011