Desperate plight of human rights advocates in Colombia
Date Published: 11-05-2009
Legal commentator Mike Semple Piggot interviews Law Society Council Member Sara Chandler. Sarah discusses a recent report highlighting the constant threats, assaults, disappearances and killings of human rights advocates in Colombia and the failure of the Colombian authorities to investigate.
She explains that more than 400 Colombian lawyers have been murdered since 1991 and not one person has been prosecuted for the killings.
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