assassination of journalist Flor Alba Núñez Vargas outside her radio station in Pitalito, Huila Dept.
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Colombia: News & Updates
Colombia has the world's second largest population of internally displaced persons (five million) due to the half-century internal armed conflict—the longest-running war in the Western Hemisphere (since 1964). Control for territory and popular support among the three main groups (left-wing rebel forces FARC & ELN, right-wing paramilitaries, Colombian police/military) has left 220,000 killed, 75% of them non-combatants. Since 2000, the US has exacerbated the violence by sending more than $9 billion in mostly military assistance. Colombia, which has both Pacific and Atlantic coastlines, holds strategic interest for the US for global trade and military posturing.
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RRN Letter
September 26, 2015
RRN Letter
September 12, 2015
assassination of Gilmer Genaro García Ramírez, Afro-descendant leader of Alto Mira y Frontera community in Nariño Dept.
RRN Letter
August 16, 2015
death threats to Nicolasa Díaz Ortiz, Executive Director of the Association of the Children and Youth Moyas Workshop House (Casa Taller), a community organization in the Chapinero neighborhood of Bogotá.
RRN Letter
August 15, 2015
killing of two (unnamed) transgender women in Cali, Valle del Cauca Dept., and the injuries of a third woman; 15 killings of transwomen have been documented in Colombia this year, including four in Cali.
RRN Letter
August 13, 2015
death threats to Iván Madero Vergel, Director of the Regional Corporation for the Defense of Human Rights (CREDHOS), in Barrancabermeja, Santander.
RRN Letter
August 2, 2015
death threats to Claudia Mabel Palacios, who is seeking justice in the forced disappearance of her 19-year old son Hafith Rios Palacios in Valle del Cauca in 2014.
RRN Letter
August 1, 2015
death threats to Miguel Briceño, leader of the peasant farmer community of El Povenir in Puerto Gaitán Municipality, Meta Department
RRN Letter
July 25, 2015
surveillance, intimidation and harassment of Claudia Julieta Duque, journalist with the human rights organization Equipo Nizkor and with Radio Nizkor
RRN Letter
July 24, 2015
stabbing of Jhon Alexander Holguín Ramirez and death threats to his lawyer Andrea Torres Bautista; Jhon Alexander Holguín Ramirez and mother Jacqueline Ramirez are involved in a high profile human rights case
RRN Letter
July 2, 2015
surveillance of Berenice Celeita, Director of the Research and Social Action Association (NOMADESC) at her home in Bogotá
