Articles by other Organizations

• Backlog of Colombian human rights cases pose a test for new president, the U.S.

  29 de junio, por Washintonpost

• AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL PRESS RELEASE

  15 de junio, por Amnistía Internacional

  11 June 2010

  Colombia: human rights abusers must not be protected from justice

• Landmark Conviction in Colombia’s Palace of Justice Case

  15 June, by The Georg Washington university

  First-Ever Criminal Sentence Handed Down in Infamous Army Assault Declassified Documents Implicate Colonel, Army, in Civilian Killings, Disappearances National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 319

• Congressional Human Rights Commission to Examine Colombian Human Rights Defenders Crisis

  20 de octubre de 2009, por Organizaciones Sociales

  A United Nations expert, prominent Colombian human rights defenders and U.S. experts will testify before the Congressional Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission (TLHRC) on Tuesday, October 20, 2009. The hearing, organized as part of the International Campaign for the Right to Defend Human Rights, will examine the critical situation facing Colombian human rights defenders.

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  Letter from US Congress Members to President Obama

  28 de septiembre de 2009, por Prensa - Colectivo

  On August 15, 2009, a group of US congress members, led by the representatives Tammy Baldwin, James McGovern and Jan Schakowsky, sent a letter to President Obama in which they expressed their discrepancy with the military agreement between Bogotá and Washington concerning seven Colombian military bases that will soon have the presence of US military personnel.

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  Grave Attacks on the Work of Human Rights Defenders in Colombia

  15 de septiembre de 2009

  In her April 2002 report to the United Nations Human Rights Commission regarding her visit to Colombia in October 2001, the Special Representative of the Secretary General on human rights defenders, Mrs. Hina Jilani, said that “she is deeply concerned over the climate of intimidation and insecurity in which human rights defenders carry out their work.” As a result of her visit, the Special Representative noted “a pattern of serious abuses of human rights defenders, including threats, disappearances, killings and forced displacements.” At the same time, she observed “that all sectors of the civil society are affected by violence, including State officials working on human rights issues. Certain groups are still more targeted than others, among them trade unionists, ethnic minorities, internally displaced persons and women. The Special Representative is extremely concerned for the safety of trade unionists and indigenous leaders, in light of the scale of violent acts against them.” Eight years after her visit, these grave abuses or patterns not only continue but have intensified, which shows that the recommendations formulated by Mrs. Jilani not only have not been implemented but that the Government has acted against them.

• Pentagon Plans Latin America-Wide Intervention Ability for New Military Base in Colombia

  27 de mayo de 2009, por Fellowship of Reconciliation - FOR

  The United States is planning to establish a new military facility in Colombia that will give the U.S. increased capacity for military intervention throughout most of Latin America. Given the tense relations of Washington with Venezuela, Bolivia, and Ecuador, as well as the Colombian military’s atrocious human rights record, the Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR) believes the plan should be subjected to vigorous debate.

• Resisting forced displacement in Colombia

  3 April 2009, by Eric Schwartz
 - International Peace Observatory

  In early February, the Colombian human rights lawyers’ collective “Yira Castro Legal Consortium,” a group that often works closely with IPO, found yet another unwelcome email in their inbox:

• “False combat kills are crimes by the state”

  11 March 2009, by Familiares de Víctimas de Asesinatos Extrajudciales

  Statement from the Encounter of Relatives of Victims of Extrajudicial Executions in Colombia: “False Combat Kills are Crimes by the State.” As the relatives of the victims of extrajudicial executions from different regions of the country gathered in the city of Bogotá on the 5th and 6th of March, 2009, WE DECLARE:

• Jorge Darío Hoyos Franco

  11 February 2009, by Prensa - Colectivo

  Jorge Darío Hoyos Franco -father, husband, trade unionist, and social and political leader, who for many years fought for social justice in Colombia and Latin America- could be the random name tied to the finger of a corpse in the morgue of any city. Jorge Darío Hoyos, however, is the name of our dreams. On March 3, 2001, he was murdered from the gunfire of two hit men as he left the house of some friends in the municipality of Fusagasugá (Cundinamarca, Colombia).

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José Alvear Restrepo

Afiliado a la Federación Internacional de Derechos Humanos
y la Organización Mundial contra la Tortura
Estatus Consultivo en la OEA