OIDHACO Newsletter May – June 2013

Land und Vertreibung, Menschenrechte, Veröffentlichungen

The newsletter includes information on: peace process; the land issue – protests in the Catatumbo region, mining and forced displacement -; justice and military jurisdiction; human rights defenders situation, in particular journalists; and EU policy.   It...

Morddrohungen gegen Menschenrechtsverteidiger Comite Permanente – Urgent Action

Aktionen

  Urgent Action von amnesty international Diego Martínez und Jeison Pava, zwei kolumbianische Menschenrechtsverteidiger, haben per E-Mail Morddrohungen gegen sich und ihre Familien erhalten, als sie in an einer Veranstaltung in der Gemeinde La Macarena in...

Protecting access to justice – Report by UK Lawyers group

Menschenrechte, Veröffentlichungen

Report of the Third International Caravana of Jurists to Colombia 2012, Published 21 May 2013 Executive Summary The Caravana delegation of August 2012 was the third in a series of large international delegations of lawyers in response to invitations from the Colombian...

Military Criminal jurisdiction: Impunity and green light for the state security forces to continue to commit crimes

Deutsche-/EU-Politik, Menschenrechte

Concerns for EU reaction following reform of the military justice system which protects the State security forces from justice and leaves victims unprotected. Brussels, June 27, 2013. On June 17, the Colombian Congress adopted the statutory law regulating military...

ua amnesty: Protesters killed in Catatumbo

Aktionen, Menschenrechte, Widerstandsgemeinden

Peasant farmers participating in demonstrations in Catatumbo, north-eastern Colombia, are at risk after at least four protesters were killed and others injured. There are fears that security forces have been using disproportionate and excessive force, particularly...