Colombia
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Defending the Right to Social Protest in Colombia
Tags Share On May 12, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights and Media Legal Defense Initiative (MLDI) submitted an amicus curiae brief to the Supreme Court of Justice in Colombia in a tutela (protection action) defending the right to social protest. The case was brought on behalf of nine human rights organizations whose right to protest…
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Statute of Limitations Lifted in Murder of Journalist Nelson Carvajal
Tags Share The organizations urge Colombia to give full compliance to the Inter-American Court Judgment [Miami/Washington D.C./Bogota, August 19, 2019] The Inter-American Press Association (IAPA), Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights (RFK Human Rights) and the Foundation for Press Freedom (FLIP) celebrate that the Colombian Justice has eliminated the statute of limitations regarding the murder of…
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Statement on the Murder of Guillermo Cano
Tags Share Statement from the Cano Busquets family and the organizations working on the case on the murder of Guillermo Cano / Comunicado de la familia Cano Busquets y organizaciones por el caso del asesinato de Guillermo Cano Guillermo Cano was a journalist and director of the Colombian newspaper El Espectador who was killed in…
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Hope for a Safer Environment for Journalists in Colombia
Tags Share Twenty years today, on April 16, 1998, Colombian journalist Nelson Carvajal was shot and killed in Pitalito, Huila, by a hitman that escaped on a motorbike. Just prior to his death he had been uncovering corruption by the local government and businessmen. The Colombian authorities’ investigation into his murder has been plagued with…
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No Justice in Colombian Journalist Hit
In 1986, famed editor Guillermo Cano was murdered by Pablo Escobar’s men. To this day, his killers are unpunished.
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Colombia Liable for Journalist’s Murder
Nelson Carvajal was killed for exposing a web of government and business corruption in Colombia.
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Protecting Freedom of the Press in the Americas
Tags Share “My brother was a good man, a good father, son and brother. He was a thorough journalist who wanted to fight corruption and protect the community’s interests.” That’s how Judith Carvajal, a teacher from Pitalito, Colombia, started her account before the Inter-American Court on Human Rights on August 22, 2016, in a hearing…
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Case of Murdered Colombian Journalist to be Heard by Inter-American Court
Tags Share MIAMI, Florida (November 2, 2015)—Calling it a “step of great importance,” the Inter American Press Association (IAPA) and Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights welcomed the decision of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) to submit the case of Nelson Carvajal to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, and expressed their confidence that…
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Colombia: Protecting Human Rights Defenders From Harassment
The Colombian government has a duty to stop this pattern of violence and persecution against human rights defenders.
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