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Amnesty International  Report 2012


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Colombian activists receive death threats
22 June 2012

On 20 June 2012, human rights defenders received death threats targeting other human rights defenders in Colombia. Members of these organizations are at risk.

Urgent Action       AMR 23/023/2012

Colombia: Further information: New death threats in Colombia
7 June 2012

On 1 June, a death threat by a paramilitary group was left at the home of Juan David Díaz Chamorro, a member of MOVICE in Sincelejo, Northern Colombia. The death ...

Urgent Action       AMR 23/022/2012

Report 2012: No longer business as usual for tyranny and injustice ...
24 May 2012

Amnesty International releases its flagship yearly report documenting the state of the world's human rights.

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Colombia: Human rights defenders threatened
18 May 2012

On 8 May 2012, three human rights defenders and a lawyer in Sucre, northern Colombia, received death threats. All four have been supporting peasant farmers to get ...

Urgent Action       AMR 23/021/2012

Colombia: Bogotá bomb attack 'reprehensible' | Amnesty ...
16 May 2012

No one has claimed responsibility for the attack in the Colombian capital which killed two people and injured at least 50.

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Colombia: Women rights defenders' lives in danger
11 May 2012

On 7 May 2012, shots were fired into the office of a women's rights organization in Bogota, Colombia. This follows a series of attacks and intimidation against ...

Urgent Action       AMR 23/020/2012

Colombia: Security fears for peasant farmers' leader
27 April 2012

Peasant farmer leader Hernán Henry Díaz, who was arranging a protest march, has not been seen since 18 April, and may have been subjected to enforced disappearance ...

Urgent Action       AMR 23/019/2012

Colombia: The Victims and Land Restitution Law: An Amnesty ...
17 April 2012

On 10 June 2011, President Juan Manuel Santos signed into law the Victims and Land Restitution Law. The Law and its associated decrees cover a range of interrelated ...

Report       AMR 23/018/2012

Colombia: Paramilitaries kill father and son in Colombia
29 March 2012

Manuel Ruíz, a member of the community council of Apartadocito, and his son, were abducted and subsequently killed by paramilitaries in northern Colombia on 23 ...

Urgent Action       AMR 23/017/2012

Colombia: Paramilitaries threaten son of defender: David Rabelo ...
21 March 2012

David Rabelo Gutiérrez, the son of a human rights defender who is on trial, has received an email, signed by paramilitaries, that declares him a military target ...

Urgent Action       AMR 23/015/2012