Almost half of human rights defenders killed last year were in Colombia
Source: The Guardian
Almost half of human rights defenders killed last year were in Colombia
The county was the deadliest for rights activists in 2022, and Latin America and Ukraine together accounted for 80% of the 401 deaths
Iñigo Alexander in Bogotá
Tue 4 Apr 2023 11.00 BST
Colombia was the deadliest country in the world for human rights defenders in 2022, accounting for 186 killings – or 46% – of the global total registered last year, according to the latest report from the international human rights group Front Line Defenders.
Front Line Defenders found that killings of rights defenders across the globe increased in 2022, with a total of 401 deaths across 26 different countries, compared with 358 deaths in 38 countries registered in 2021.
Colombia saw more than three times the number of human rights murders than Ukraine last year, which was the country with the second highest number of rights defenders killed in 2022, with 50 registered cases.
-snip-
Five countries – Colombia (186 killings), Ukraine (50), Mexico (45), Brazil (26) and Honduras (17) – accounted for over 80% of rights defenders’ deaths registered last year.
-snip-
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/apr/04/colombia-human-rights-defenders-killings-2022
No-registration link: https://archive.is/dCp2O
