Colombia
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This Week’s Spotlight on Human Rights
Tags Share Colombia Is the Deadliest Country for Environmental Activists, Report Finds Protecting the world’s most pristine ecosystems is essential to curb climate change and prevent biodiversity loss, but it also continues to be deadly. At least 196 people were killed last year defending the environment, according to a report by Global Witness, an environmental watchdog…
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This Week’s Spotlight on Human Rights
Tags Share Michael Brown’s mom pushes for justice for her son in public hearing The mother of Michael Brown — who was shot and killed by a Ferguson police officer in 2014 sparking protests around the county — gave testimony to the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights (IACHR) to review the case of her son’s killing in…
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This Week’s Spotlight on Human Rights
Tags Share Americas: On World Refugee Day, states must prioritize the human rights of those seeking protection in the Americas On the occasion of World Refugee Day, Amnesty International has issued an open letter to the States parties to the Cartagena Declaration on Refugees, who are currently meeting in Bogotá, urging them to put human…
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Lawyer in the Guillermo Cano case
Tags Share Over three decades after the brutal murder of journalist Guillermo Cano, the government of Colombia has finally accepted responsibility for the lack of justice in Cano’s case and offered a public apology to his family. Speaking with Colombian newspaper El Espectador, our VP of International Advocacy & Litigation Angelita Baeyens explains the significance…
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Five things to know about the Guillermo Cano case
Tags Share On February 9, the Colombian government will finally acknowledge its responsibility for the prevailing impunity in the 1986 murder of renowned newspaper editor Guillermo Cano, one of the reparation measures that has been called for by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. Below are five things to know about this key case. 1.…
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Nuevo Amicus Curiae Defiende la Despenalización en Casos de Difamación
Tags Share El 20 de abril de 2023, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, junto con Free Press Unlimited, Unión Nacional de Instituciones para el Trabajo de Acción Social (UNITAS), Red Latinoamericana y del Caribe por la Democracia (REDLAD), Kazakhstan International Bureau for Human Rights and Rule of Law (KIBHR) y Odhikar, presentaron un amicus curiae…
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New Amicus Brief Defends the Decriminalization in Cases of Defamation
Tags Share On April 20th, 2023, Robert F Kennedy Human Rights, partnered with Free Press Unlimited, Unión Nacional de Instituciones para el Trabajo de Acción Social (UNITAS), Red Latinoamericana y del Caribe por la Democracia (REDLAD), Kazakhstan International Bureau for Human Rights and Rule of Law (KIBHR) and Odhikar, filed an amicus curiae brief before…
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Nuevo Amicus Sobre los Derechos de los Defensores de los Derechos Humanos
Tags Share El 6 de febrero de 2023, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, en conjunto con el Servicio Internacional para los Derechos Humanos (SIDH), Women’s Link Worldwide (WLW) y la Unión Nacional de Instituciones para el Trabajo de Acción Social (UNITAS) presentaron un amicus curiae ante la Corte Constitucional de Colombia. En 2019, la sociedad…
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New Amicus Brief on the Rights of Human Rights Defenders
Tags Share On February 6th 2023, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, in partnership with the International Service for Human Rights (ISHR), Women’s Link Worldwide (WLW) and Unión Nacional de Instituciones para el Trabajo de Acción Social (UNITAS) filed an amicus brief before the Colombian Constitutional Court. In 2019, national civil society presented a constitutional action…
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Opinion: Colombian Vice-President Elect Francia Márquez is Great News for Human Rights; Here’s Why
Tags Share The election of Francia Márquez as Colombia’s vice president is potentially the biggest move toward expanding civic space the country has seen in decades. Not only will Márquez be the first Black woman to hold executive office in Colombia, she is also an established environmental activist and advocate for Indigenous and poor people’s…
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RFK Human Rights Expresa Preocupación Por La Respuesta Del Estado a La Comisión Interamericana De Derechos Humanos
Tags Share Después de meses de manifestaciones masivas en Colombia y la dispersión violenta de las protestas por parte de las fuerzas de seguridad, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights está profundamente preocupada por la respuesta del Estado colombiano al informe y las recomendaciones de la Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos (CIDH) tras su visita al…
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Colombia’s Response to IACHR Raises Concern
Times of crisis cannot be used as an excuse to permit and facilitate human rights violations.
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