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	Vacancies
		04/OHCHR/050/GAZA, Human Rights Officer, L-3, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Gaza, Gaza (OccupiedPalestinianTerritory), (29 June 2004)
		04/OHCHR/051/COLOMBIA, Human Rights Officer, L-3, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Colombia, Bucaramanga, Colombia, (5 July 2004)
		04/OHCHR/049/MINUSTAH, Chief of Human Rights Section, D-1, United Nations Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH), Haiti, (25 June 2004)
	www.unhchr.ch /html/vacancies/vacancypage.htm (143 words)

	Peace Corps Online Human Rights
		Report on "Possibilities for Peace in Colombia: A Human Rights Perspective" co-chaired by Congressman Farr, a former Peace Corps volunteer in Colombia
		Informed sources have told us that the decision to withdraw the Peace Corps from Nigeria early this year was due in large part to a deteriorating human rights climate there
		January 23, 2005: Index: PCOL Exclusive: Human Rights
	peacecorpsonline.org /messages/messages/2629/2015810.html (160 words)

	Colombia Street Children
		* Human Rights Watch urges the Colombian government to amend the constitutional provision granting military court jurisdiction in cases involving crimes by military personnel against civilians, and to extend this amendment to include police.
		* Human Rights Watch calls on the Colombian government to make public once again its rejection of paramilitary groups and "private justice" as a way to solve social ills.
		Human Rights Watch was established in 1978 to monitor and promote internationally recognized human rights in Africa, the Americas, Asia, the Middle East, and the signatories of the Helsinki accords.
	pangaea.org /street_children/latin/colombia.htm (995 words)

	Amnesty International - Colombia: Breaking down the wall of silence
		It is already clear that the measures included in President Uribe's "democratic security" doctrine threaten to weaken the rule of law and the human rights of all Colombians.
		These include the weakening of the Ombudsman’s Office and local State human rights structures (Personerías), the limitation of writs of protection (tutelas), as well as the restriction of human rights which have been imposed within the framework of the state of internal commotion.
		And undoubtedly, Colombia is facing an extremely difficult situation due to the action of armed groups refusing to respect international humanitarian law and to acknowledge the right of the civilian population to stay out of the hostilities.
	web.amnesty.org /web/content.nsf/pages/gbr_colombia (338 words)

	human rights watch crisis in colombia
		This background briefing outlines the key human rights problems in Colombia and includes sample questions to be put to the two presidents at their joint press conference.
		Human Rights Watch's evidence strongly suggests that, far from moving decisively to sever ties to paramilitaries, Colombia's military high command has yet to take the necessary steps to accomplish this goal.
		(New York, November 28, 2000) — Human Rights Watch today urged the Colombian government not to withdraw the security protection for a former judge who ordered the arrest of Pablo Escobar in 1988.
	www.hrw.org /campaigns/colombia (338 words)

	Peace Brigades International (PBI), Nonviolent Human Rights Protection
		Currently, we have volunteers protecting human rights activists in Colombia, Guatemala, Indonesia and Mexico, as well as a project starting in Nepal and a joint project with other organizations in Chiapas, Mexico.
		Perpetrators of human rights abuses usually do not want the world to witness their actions.
		The volunteers accompany human rights defenders, their organizations and others threatened by political violence.
	www.peacebrigades.org (431 words)

	[plan-c] Colombia Fails Rights Test
		Human rights = are the=20 foundation of the rule of law and strengthen democracy against its = many=20 foes, including those who use terror for political ends. A premature or flawed certification on the human rights = conditions=20 contained in aid legislation risks eliminating the leverage the = United=20 States has over this critical issue.
		Human rights are the = foundation of the rule of law and strengthen democracy against its many = foes, including those who use terror for political ends.
		Osorio has said to human rights groups as well as members of the = U.S. Congress that he believes the work of prosecutors under the = direction of then-Attorney General G=F3mez was biased against = paramilitaries and that he planned to refocus the work of the Human = Rights Unit toward cases involving guerrilla abuses.
	freeteam.nl /pipermail/plan-c/2002-February/000288.html (431 words)

	UN Commission on Human Rights wrap up - Amnesty International
		The Commission also adopted a Chairperson statement on the human rights situation in Colombia which supports the extension of the mandate of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in Bogota and urges the Colombian Government to further develop their cooperation with the Office.
		UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan and UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Mary Robinson earlier called on the Commission to ensure that counter-terrorist measures were not used as a pretext for suppression.
		If the Commission is to live up to its role as the UN's primary human rights body it must consider human rights on their merits rather than protect the narrow self-interests of the governments that make up the Commission.
	web.amnesty.org /library/Index/ENGIOR410152002?open&of=ENG-393 (1675 words)

	December 10 is international Human Rights Day
		This December 10th, International Human Rights Day, the National Union urges trade unionists everywhere to remember all those who have disappeared and become victims in Colombia's ongoing crisis.
		On Tuesday (Dec. 9) the Montreal based human rights organization, Rights and Democracy, is awarding Kimy, and Angélica Mendoza de Ascarza of Peru, the John Humphrey Freedom Award.
		Kimy's leadership in rallying his people and the international community against the Urrá made him a target for paramilitary violence.
	www.nupge.ca /news_2003/n09de03a.htm (1675 words)

	NAMES ASSOCIATED WITH HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSE
		Sister Dianna Ortiz, Congressional Human Rights Caucus Briefing on Torture.
		"Colombian Human Rights Abuses Tied to School of Americas Graduates, Wednesday, July 29, 1998
		Soldiers then turned on cameraman Richard Velez, who was granted asylum in the U. after fleeing from death threats in Colombia.
	www.geocities.com /~virtualtruth/names_p.htm (2657 words)

	Latin America Security Bibliography: Human Rights
		Organization of American States, Inter-American Commision on Human Rights: Report on the Human Rights Situation in Colombia
		"Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 1997: Argentina."
		"Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 1997: Guatemala."
	www.ciponline.org /bibliogr/humanrig.htm (2657 words)

	UN Commission on Human Rights: What is it?
		Over the next six weeks, the commission will consider the situation of human rights in a number of countries, among them: Colombia, Sudan, including Darfur, Iraq, occupied Palestine, the occupied Syrian Golan Heights, Myanmar and North Korea.
		Its agenda includes the right of peoples to self-determination, racism and all forms of discrimination, human rights violations throughout the world, economic, social and cultural rights, civil and political rights, issues relating to women, children, migrants, minorities and indigenous peoples and the protection and promotion of human rights."
		"The 53-member commission is the main United Nations body dealing with human rights.
	www.un.org /radio/story.asp?NewsID=1711 (140 words)

	ReliefWeb » Document Preview » United Nations Commission on Human Rights Working Group on enforced or involuntary disapperances to visit Colombia
		United Nations Commission on Human Rights Working Group on enforced or involuntary disapperances to visit Colombia
		The Working Group on Enforced was established by the United Nations Commission on Human Rights in 1980 to assist the relatives of disappeared persons in ascertaining their fate and whereabouts and to act as a channel for communication between the families and governments concerned.
		The United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID) will visit Colombia from 5 to 13 July 2005.
	www.reliefweb.int /rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/RMOI-6DZ8XC?OpenDocument (271 words)

	OACNUDH - UNHCHR
		Office in Colombia of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
	www.hchr.org.co (351 words)

	Amnesty International - Working To Protect Human Rights Worldwide
		Violence against women is the greatest human rights scandal of our times.
		UN: Governments must overcome obstacles and agree to adopt strong human rights provisions in outcome document
		Colombia: The Justice and Peace law will benefit human rights abusers
	www.amnesty.org (351 words)

	Human Rights Watch - Defending Human Rights Worldwide
		Sri Lanka: Launch Independent Inquiry into attack on National Human Rights Commission
		Human Rights Watch - Defending Human Rights Worldwide
		Security Council Should Take Up Burma's Human Rights Crisis
	www.hrw.org (181 words)

	COLOMBIA Colombia: Amnesty International's position on Plan Colombia
		Furthermore, it is apparent that Plan Colombia is not the result of a genuine process of consultation either with the national and international non-governmental organizations which are expected to implement the projects nor with the beneficiaries of the humanitarian, human rights or social development projects.
		The framework for international support for human rights in Colombia must be the recommendations made by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and other UN human rights mechanisms.
		Plan Colombia is based on a drug-focussed analysis of the roots of the conflict and the human rights crisis which completely ignores the Colombian state=s own historical and current responsibility.
	web.amnesty.org /802568F7005C4453/0/176E15103DA508248025691200558394?Open (988 words)

	Colombia - Amnesty International
		An investigation in Colombia by the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights held guerrilla forces, paramilitaries and also the state partly responsible, since it did not prevent the arrival of the paramilitaries in the area.
		Several foreign human rights workers were deported from Colombia prior to and following the creation of the Rehabilitation and Consolidation Zones.
		The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights highlighted that military courts launched or continued with investigations into human rights violations despite recommendations to the Colombian authorities to ensure that all cases of human rights violations and breaches of international humanitarian law should be excluded from military courts.
	web.amnesty.org /report2003/Col-summary-eng (2376 words)

	Amnesty International Report 2002 - Americas - COLOMBIA
		Colombia: Human rights and US military aid to Colombia: published jointly by Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and the Washington Office on Latin America (AI Index: AMR 23/004/2001)
		Amicus Curiae Document on National Security Law No. 684 of 2001 presented by Amnesty International, the International Commission of Jurists and Human Rights Watch to the Constitutional Court of Colombia (AI Index: AMR 23/130/2001)
		She expressed her concern at the level of impunity in cases of human rights violations and condemned the sexual abuse of girls by paramilitary and guerrilla commanders.
	web.amnesty.org /web/ar2002.nsf/amr/colombia!Open (2144 words)

	SOA Watch
		Reports by Human Rights Watch and the U.S. State Department are linking the Colombian Armed forces to right-wing paramilitary groups responsible for severe human rights violations.
		UN and US State Department reports highlight continued human rights abuses in Colombia (May 2004).
		Colombia Human Rights Delegation to Take Direct Action at SOA - 8/9/02
	www.soaw.org /new/sub.php?id=22 (276 words)

	Archived Urgent Action: President of the Organización Femenina Popular (OFP) Threatened in Barrancabermeja, Colombia
		Colombia security forces and their paramilitary allies have a policy of labeling human rights and social justice organizations as guerrilla collaborators or supporters making them into legitimate targets in the counter-insurgency war.
		KAIROS has sent a letter to the Colombia government urging them to take appropriate measures to guarantee the safety of Yolanda Becerra, President of the Organización Femenina Popular (OFP), so she can continue her legitimate work for the defense and promotion of human rights.
		We have also called on the Colombia government to adhere to its obligations regarding human rights defenders, as laid out in United Nation and Organization of American States declarations, and the UN's repeated recommendations to take measures to guarantee the safety of human rights defenders.
	www.kairoscanada.org /e/urgent/uaColombiaOFP020517.asp (1048 words)

	USATODAY.com - U.S. authorizes release of military aid to Colombia
		Congress had refused to provide the military aid until the State Department certified that the Colombian military had suspended military personnel who had engaged in grave human rights violations, cooperated with civilian prosecutors in rights cases and was severing ties with rightist paramilitary groups.
		A State Department official, who briefed reporters on the condition of anonymity, said 16 Colombian military personnel have been suspended for human rights violations in recent months, including six officers, and 29 others were dismissed for trying to cover up the deaths of two civilians.
		"To say that Colombia has complied with human rights conditions is nothing short of a farce," Shulz said, alleging that the Colombian military has not made significant progress in any of the three areas.
	www.usatoday.com /news/nation/2002-09-09-us-aid-colombia_x.htm (486 words)

	Colombia: Letter to Congress on Judicial Powers
		If Congress approves the restoration of judicial police powers to the military one of the most important tenets of human rights protection in Colombia will be seriously undermined.
		In its Concluding Observations to Colombia in 1997, the United Nations Human Rights Committee of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, expressed its concern that the Colombian military "exercise the functions of investigation, arrest, detention and interrogation".
		Colombia: The Justice and Peace law will benefit human rights abusers
	www.amnestyusa.org /countries/colombia/document.do?id=1A16B7B6B9A803D980256D2C0053BA32 (1355 words)

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		Human rights group ALAP is calling on Panama to denounce Colombia, which so far, it has not done.
		Montenegro branded ALAP and other human rights groups as "alarmist" and Sosa questioned the sincerity of the NGOs, accusing them of helping the FARC and saying that they were to blame for the paramilitary violence.
		Montenegro denied that paramilitary had entered the village of El Rebache and kidnapped and killed Panamanian campesino farmer Cipriano Garcia, as human rights groups had charged.
	ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/harvey_morris/meteti.htm (1355 words)

	Meta Colombia
		Colombia: Death threats against the Meta Human Rights Committee - HomePage
		January 30, 1996: Death threats against the Meta Human Rights Committee....
		META (Colombia) META (Departemento) Last modified: 1997-09-03 by giuseppe bottasini Keywords: meta.
	www.lalupa.com /metar.shtml (1355 words)

	Colombia - Amnesty International
		An investigation in Colombia by the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights held guerrilla forces, paramilitaries and also the state partly responsible, since it did not prevent the arrival of the paramilitaries in the area.
		Several foreign human rights workers were deported from Colombia prior to and following the creation of the Rehabilitation and Consolidation Zones.
		There were reports of direct involvement by the security forces in serious human rights violations, including arbitrary arrests, torture, “disappearances” and killings.
	web.amnesty.org /report2003/Col-summary-eng (2376 words)

	americas.org - Freedom for Mauricio Avilez Alvarez
		Please write a letter to President Uribe of Colombia or to Vice President Francisco Santos asking for the immediate release of Mauricio Avilez Alvarez and for a government guarantee that human rights workers will be permitted to work without fear of threats or persecution.
		On June 10th, a human rights advocacy worker was unjustly arrested and jailed in Colombia.
		Mauricio Avilez Alvarez, who worked in the office of an ecumenical human-rights advocacy group on the campus of the Presbyterian Church of Colombia (PCC) in Barranquilla, has been in a city jail for nearly two months.
	www.americas.org /item_15702 (209 words)

	Don't Renew Military Aid to Colombia
		The State Department could do what is best for the people of Colombia and the United States by remaining consistent with its rhetoric and practice on human rights, and denying certification until true progress is made.
		At the same time, the State Department is withholding certification of the military's human rights record due to stalled human rights cases involving the armed forces and their ties with paramilitary groups.
		Colombia remains the number one producer of cocaine.
	www.commondreams.org /views05/0706-21.htm (819 words)

	The "War on Drugs" meets the "War on Terror"
		Colombia's armed forces continue to dispute the jurisdiction of cases involving the investigation and prosecution of alleged human rights violations by members of the military.
		CIP staff visited eight departments of Colombia in 2001 and 2002; in each, we heard denunciations from local officials, labor leaders, human rights defenders, and church representatives of routine military-paramilitary cooperation, such as ignoring AUC roadblocks, vacating zones before paramilitary attacks, or soldiers and paramilitary thugs appearing together in public.
		"The United States shares Colombia’s vision of a prosperous democracy, free from the scourges of narcotics and terrorism, which respects human rights and the rule of law," reads a December 2002 State Department report.
	www.ciponline.org /colombia/0302ipr.htm (11835 words)

	Colombia: The Culture of Fear
		The first is that Colombia's "democra-tatorship," as Eduardo Galeano termed this amalgam of democratic forms and totalitarian terror, has managed to compile the worst human rights record in the hemisphere in recent years, no small achievement when one considers the competition.
		At that time, violence in Colombia was coming to be "exacerbated by external factors," the president of the Colombian Permanent Committee for Human Rights, former Minister of Foreign Affairs Alfredo Vasquez Carrizosa, wrote some years later, reviewing the outcome.
		It has increased under Clinton, Human Rights Watch reports, adding that he planned to turn emergency overdrawing facilities when the Pentagon did not suffice for still further increases.
	www.zmag.org /chomsky/other/culture-of-fear.html (1814 words)

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