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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

Colombia: Amnesty International statement at the 19th session of ...
21 March 2012

21 March 2012. UN Human Rights Council. Nineteenth Session. 27 February – 23 March 2012. Item 2. Annual report of the United Nations High Commissioner for. ...

Document       AMR 23/016/2012

Colombia: Further information: Family targeted by paramilitaries
19 March 2012

A member of a family previously targeted by paramilitaries in northern Colombia has survived an attempt on his life. His life, and the lives of his relatives, are ...

Urgent Action       AMR 23/014/2012

Colombia: Human rights lawyer at risk: José Humberto Torres
16 March 2012

Paramilitaries have offered a bounty for the killing of Colombian human rights lawyer José Humberto Torres, a member of the Political Prisoners Solidarity Committee ...

Urgent Action       AMR 23/013/2012