US EditionNearly 100 Human Rights Defenders Killed Every Year in Colombia: UN Report
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Bogotá. The United Nations (UN) urged yesterday to take urgent measures to protect human rights defenders in Colombia, after verifying 972 homicides between 2016 and 2025 and documenting multiple threats and attacks against them.
In Colombia, nearly 1,000 human rights activists have been killed since the signing of the peace agreement with the former Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) in 2016. A total of 972 defenders were murdered between 2016 and 2025, according to a report by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights published on Thursday, 19 March 2026.
Colombia has failed to reverse the patterns of violence against human rights defenders, or social leaders. This is what the report presented on Thursday by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in the country, which analyses the events that occurred between January 1, 2022 and December 31, 2025, a period that mostly coincides with the mandate of President Gustavo Petro, who was elected with the banner of stopping th…
(AFP) A total of 972 human rights defenders were killed in Colombia since 2016, when the peace agreement with the FARC guerrillas was signed, the UN Human Rights Office said on Thursday.Read more
Colombia registered 972 murders of human rights defenders since 2016 and maintains an average of 100 cases annually, according to the UN By Diana K. Rodríguez T. A total of 972 murders of human rights defenders between 2016 and 2025 documented the UN Human Rights Office in Colombia, according to a report presented this Thursday. [...] La entrada Colombia The UN reports that the country recorded 972 murders of human rights defenders since 2016 a…
A total of 972 human rights activists were killed in Colombia between 2016 - year of the Government's peace agreement with the Revolutionary Forces of Colombia (FARC) - and 2025, declared yesterday to the United Nations. This figure represents an average of nearly 100 deaths per year, said the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCR) in a communication accompanying the publication of a report on the subject. "It is regrettable t…
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