Colombia: Stop Abuses by Paramilitaries’ Successor Groups

HRW Press Release, Frebruary 3 2010. Bogota    

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

Report prepared by Garry Leech for  Inter Pares, September 2009
 

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.

Colombia: One of world’s most dangerous places for trade unionists

Press release, 07/03/2007 http://news.amnesty.org/index/ENGAMR230172007