Rights In Colombia

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Human rights in Columbia

Today civilians in Colombia continue to suffer serious abuse by guerrillas, they deny thousands of Colombian citizens their rights. Violence with Colombia have been displayed more than 5.7 million times to colombians, 200,000 Colombians choose to leave their homes because they do not want to be denied their rights. Human rights defenders, trade unionists, journalists, indigenous and Afro-Colombian leaders, and other community activists face death threats and violence.

The citizens of colombia have had a frequent amount of abuse by the FARC guerrillas, for example, in southwest Colombia, the FARC guerrillas were responsible for a huge form of abuses in 2013 and 2014,the FARC killed, caused disappearances, performed

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