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Colombia: Trade union negotiators threatened
21 January 2013

Colombian trade union leaders Igor Díaz López and Aldo Raúl Amaya Daza have received telephone death threats. Their lives are in danger.

Urgent Action       AMR 23/001/2013

Americas: Transforming pain into hope: Human rights defenders in ...
7 December 2012

Human rights defenders in the Americas have made fundamental contributions to the advancement of human rights. However, as the clamour for human rights has grown ...

Report       AMR 01/006/2012

Colombia: Transforming pain into hope: human rights defenders in ...
7 December 2012

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Postcard       AMR 23/033/2012

Colombia: Reform will boost impunity for military and police human ...
6 December 2012

Members of the armed forces and police suspected of criminal responsibility in serious human rights violations may evade justice because of a planned constitutional ...

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Colombia: Further information: Trade unionists receive more death ...
12 November 2012

Paramilitaries sent a new death threat to members of various trade unions in Valle del Cauca Department, southern Colombia on 7 November 2012.

Urgent Action       AMR 23/043/2012

Colombia: Trade unionists receive death threats
8 November 2012

Five trade unionists received death threats from the Urabeños – a paramilitary group – in Bugalagrande Municipality, south-western Colombia on 4 November.

Urgent Action       AMR 23/042/2012

Colombia: Further information: More land rights defenders ...
19 October 2012

On 11 October, the National Coordination of Displaced People – a group that works with people displaced by armed conflict – received a death threat from the paramilitary ...

Urgent Action       AMR 23/041/2012

Colombian woman threatened with gun: Alfamir Castillo
11 October 2012

On 10 October, a man aimed a gun at Alfamir Castillo, the mother of a young man killed by members of the Colombian armed forces in Palmira municipality, southern ...

Urgent Action       AMR 23/040/2012

Colombia: Land rights defenders receive death threats
9 October 2012

Colombian NGOs and human rights defenders working on land restitution issues around the country have been subject to numerous death threats in recent weeks. The ...

Urgent Action       AMR 23/039/2012

Colombia: Hidden from justice: Impunity for conflict-related ...
4 October 2012

Conflict-related sexual violence against women and girls in Colombia has long been a largely hidden human rights tragedy. Amnesty International's 2011 report showed ...

Report       AMR 23/031/2012