Organizations Coordination of Human Rights Department of the Atlantic held a press conference in Barranquilla (Atlántico) on April 27, 2011 which expressed concern about the human rights situation in the region. They also call for support for national and international community and the authorities to ensure Colombia in relation to their work. Complaints that are 44 recorded cases in which an advocate of human rights has been assaulted in the department between 2002 and 2011 and at least 7 of them have lost their lives in the performance of this work. Also highlighted that during 2010 and early 2011 the staff of the Happy Childhood Foundation has received threats and harassment in 11 cases, union of the United Workers Central (CUT) have been attacks on 12 occasions, students University of the Atlantic have been threatened in 11 cases, members of organizations of persons displaced in 3 and the Association of Families United for Single-Pain wins the displacement of many of its members.
Human Rights Coordination Department of the Atlantic said that "although the current government of President Santos has been implementing the strategy of disarmament to the word, rapprochement and dialogue with advocacy organizations human rights, the situation improves. " According to the Information System Attacks on defenders of human rights in Colombia (SIADDHH) non-governmental program to protect human rights defenders are defenders during the first three months of 2011, 96 defenders were assaulted and and 64 social organizations and human rights were victims of some kind of aggression that threatens the lives and safety of its members and hinders the work of defending human rights in Colombia. The attacks consisted of threats (71%), murder (10%), assaults (7%), arbitrary arrests (7%), disappearances (4%) and the arbitrary use of the criminal justice system (1%). The same program reported that in the years 2009 and 2010 an advocate of human rights was assaulted every two days in Colombia (174 attacks each year.)
According to the coordination of organizations in the Atlantic, the Caribbean region is no stranger to this scenario and situation becomes sharp due to its strategic location. Emphasize that in the Caribbean region is rich in water resources, land and miners posing as a strategic region for territorial control of drug trafficking and weapons from illegal armed groups, especially the paramilitary groups. They also assert that this area of \u200b\u200bthe country is of great importance to agro-industrialization, the exploitation of large tracts of land and land with monocultures and extraction of mineral resources.
In the press conference that these organizations said today the Caribbean region is the area most concentrated amount of armed nuclei (40%) and paramilitary groups (Urabeños, Countries and stubble) have a phase of consolidation and social control of the territory. According to the paper presented at the press conference, these groups violently penetrate the city outskirts and in the municipalities of the department have become areas of territorial dispute for control of drug trafficking and micro traffic. The result has been an increase in crime levels.
The human rights organizations reported the assault to have been subjected in recent years and stressed that despite the demands made, "the problem has sometimes been ignored not only by the national government but also by the local government and departmental without strong measures are taken to give solution. "
is why the Human Rights Coordination Atlantic Department adheres to the requirements and recommendations of the Human Rights Commission in its public statement of March 8, 2011 in which enjoins the Colombian government to "punish judicially to material and intellectual, and immediately take all necessary measures to ensure the right to life, integrity and security of beneficiaries and the beneficiaries of precautionary measures, as well as all defenders country's human rights. "
coordination co-convenor of the conference calls on civil society in general to show their support for defenders of human rights and national and district government to rule publicly on " the legitimacy of this work as a contribution to building a democratic and peaceful society. " It also reiterates that raise the guarantees for the protection of members of social organizations and conduct thorough investigations to determine the responsibility of individuals and groups who are exercising surveillance, harassment and threats to life, liberty and integrity of those rights defenders human in the department of Atlántico.
Human Rights Coordination Department of the Atlantic is composed of the Happy Childhood Foundation, the Standing Committee on Human Rights (PCHR), the Committee of Solidarity with Political Prisoners (FCSPP), the Unitary Workers Central (CUT) National Association of Displaced Persons of Colombia (ANDESCOL), the Colombian Association of University Students (ACEU), the Federation of University Students (FEU), the Observatory of the University Corporation Reformed Human Rights and Peace (OIDHPAZ), Centre Study Development and Human Rights (CEDERHNOS), the National Movement Victims of State Crimes (MOVICE) and the Presbytery of the Coast.
Source: Notiagen.
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