Human rights report

Colombia- Antiterrorism and Human Rights : 10 years of non-compability?

01/09/2011

After 11 September 2001, U.S. financial assistance to Colombia that previously had been funnelled through the Plan Colombia to fight “narcotics trafficking, was also used to combat terrorism. In October 2001, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), the National Liberation Army (ELN) and the paramilitary groups were added to the list of terrorist organisations.

Criminalisation of Social Protest related to Extractive Industries in Latin America

06/08/2011

Paramilitaries’ Heirs : The New Face of Violence in Colombia

10/02/2010

Colombia: Stop Abuses by Paramilitaries’ Successor Groups

HRW Press Release, Frebruary 3 2010. Bogota

Fuelling Underdevelopment in Colombia

07/09/2009

Poverty, Human Rights and Canada’s Role in the African Palm Oil Sector

Report prepared by Garry Leech for Inter Pares, September 2009

Report for the Universal Periodic Review on Colombia

01/07/2008

In 2003, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights pointed out that the human rights situation in Colombia “is characterized by serious, massive, and systematic violations of those rights, many of them constituting crimes against humanity.”1 Five years later, the violations remain serious, massive, and systematic. In many cases they have worsened, and in great part remain unpunished. The responsibility for these violations in the majority of cases is attributed to the Colombian State, as a result of direct perpetration or of tolerance or support of the paramilitary groups.