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1 July 2014
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19 May 2012
UPDATE: On January 22, a court conviced three retired members of the military in connection with Operation Dragon. Learn more in our more recent article here.
In his 25 years as a human rights lawyer, Jorge Molano has represented victims in many emblematic cases such as the Palace of Justice where Coronel Luis Alfonso Plazas Vega was convicted after appeal for the crime of aggravated forced disappearance
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13 March 2012
More than 2000 signatures have been sent to Colombian President Manuel Santos as part of an appeal requesting protection of a rally organized by Colombia’s National Movement of Victims of State Crimes (MOVICE). The campaign was led by PBI partner Latin America Working Group. PBI USA requested supporters from across the US to send appeals to the president and appreciates the large number of responses. See letter and signatures at:
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17 July 2011
PBI would like to congratulate the work done by Mexican human rights defenders and activists that fought and campaigned over decades to make this momentous decision possible.
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21 June 2011
PBI again expresses its profound concern for the threats against and monitoring of members of the Inter-Church Justice and Peace Commission (CIJP). PBI accompanies the CIJP in the region of Urabá (in the Cacarica, Curbaradó and Jiguamiandó river basins), in Bogotá, and periodically in other areas of the country, since 1998.
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25 March 2011
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14 February 2011
The UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders (HRDs), Margaret Sekaggya, released <media 7291>the yearly report on HRDs</media>. She focuses on women HRDs. PBI played a large role in producing the report and is a member of the WHRD International Coalition that produced it.
Mike Tamblyn, In-Country Coordinator and Katherine Hughes-Fraitekh, director of PBI-USA, will represent PBI at the release of the report at the UN in NYC on Feb. 28 during the annual Commission on the Status of Women meetings.
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31 January 2011
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20 December 2010
Abel Barrera, director of the Tlachinollan Human Rights Centre in Guerrero, Mexico, received the RFK Human Rights Award on 19 November 2010 in Washington DC.
(from rfkcenter.org)
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20 December 2010