International Commission of Jurists

Joint report of the Special Rapporteur on the question of torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment and the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, E/CN.4/1995/111, 16 January 1995: Colombia

Jan 16, 1995

C. “Social cleansing” 49. In addition to criminals, persons from other sectors of the population whose presence was considered undesirable became the targets of such killings: prostitutes, homosexuals, beggars, drug consumers and street children. The...
Law is a dangerous profession in Colombia

Law is a dangerous profession in Colombia

Aug 21, 1992 | News

Judges and lawyers in Colombia work in a dangerous profession, says a report issued today by the ICJ, which documents 515 cases of violence against Colombian lawyers and judges between 1979 and 1991. More than half of the victims, 278 jurists, were murdered.<

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