May 2017
The insecure situation of human rights defenders in Colombia is alarming, particularly since December 1, 2016, the initiation date of the implementation of the Final Agreement for Ending Conflict and
Building a Stable and Long-Lasting Peace, signed between the Colombian government and the FARC-EP.
The Ombudsman , in her Risk Report N. 010-17 A.I of March 30 of the present year, as well as the High Commissioner for Human Rights of the United Nations, in his 2016 annual report on the human rights
situation in Colombia of the past March 14, and the nongovernmental program Somos Defensores, in its 2016 Annual Report of the System of Information on Aggressions Against Human Rights Defenders,
agree in recognizing, despite some differences in the data, that the situation is worrisome.
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