20/08/2010
Bryony Poynor of GCN is part of a delegation of lawyers from the UK who will visit Colombia at the end of August 2010 to carry out a fact finding mission on what can be done to support and protect Colombian human rights in the future.
The 2010 delegation follows the success of the 2008 mission on which 42 lawyers and legal professionals travelled from UK to Colombia to meet up with Colombian lawyers and others from around the world, the "Caravana". The multinational Caravana comprised approximately 70 lawyers from around the world to lend support to lawyers at risk by their physical presence, to make representations to the authorities and carry out fact finding on what can be done to support and protect Colombian human rights in the future.
The Caravana published a report on 6 May 2009, into the daily threats to the lives of Colombian human rights lawyers. More than 400 Colombian lawyers have been murdered since 1991. No-one has been prosecuted for these killings.
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