:quality(85)//cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/infobae/B2KRFQ7AYVD6VHH5VZECCLMYUM.png "Colombia is the country with the most leaders assassinated in 2022, according to the IACHR 1")
162 human rights defenders were murdered in Latin America in 2022, this is the complaint filed by Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR). The country with the highest number of homicides is Colombia, where 46 cases have been recorded. The information was disclosed through a press release issued on February 21, 2023.
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Of the 46 cases reported in Colombia26 have been confirmed and 20 others are being verified, most of the profiles correspond to indigenous, afro and ecological leaders, only in the last two months of the year, the IACHR counted eight murders, including those of:
Filadelfo Anzola Padilla in San Pablo, south of Bolivar; Yermi Shocked Camayo, in Morales, Cauca; Edgar Omar Ayala Pinto in Cúcuta, north of Santander; Youth Fence in Sotará, Cauca; Francisco Sarco Pipicay and Carlitos Uragama Canoe in Quibdo, Choco; and the Carlos Andrés Posada in the municipality of Ituango, Antioquia.
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The victims have been identified as Cristian Martínez, 25, Jessica Hernández, 24, and Andrés Ulcué, 25.
The IACHR declared that the Mediator of Colombia recorded the murder of 215 leaders in the country during the same period, 2022 would therefore be the year with the highest number of cases since 2016, when the peace agreement was signed at the Teatro Colón.
The Colombian State informed the IACHR that it is investigating the cases, also explained that since 2016, the Office of the Attorney General of the Nation has developed a strategy for the investigation and judaization of crimes committed against human rights defenders. the man.
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He added that the National Protection Unit (UNP) is currently protecting 3,067 social leaders and that it develops measures to guarantee the full enjoyment of the rights of people under threat, based on the “human security” approach, which envisages a differential, individual and collective approach.
Finally, the Colombian State has reportedly indicated that part of its priorities and objectives under the current government is the cessation of homicides, attacks and violations of rights against people. defenders and social leadership.
Brazil follows Colombia on the list, with at least eight homicides. According to information from the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (Oacnudh), among the profiles of the assassinated leaders are mainly indigenous leaders and an LGBTI person.
Third place is Mexico, where at least two research mothers and two environmental leaders have been murdered; in Honduras, two cases have been recorded and in Guatemala and Peru, one case in each country.
There IACHR called on States to conduct comprehensive and impartial investigation processes, where violence against children must be considered as the first hypothesis. rights defendersas well as the integration of gender and ethnic-racial approaches.
The commission also warned against the presence of stigmatizing speeches in the region, with which it seeks to discredit the work of the human rights defendersissued by the authorities of Venezuela, El Salvador and Mexico.
“With regard to stigmatizing speeches, the Commission recalls that the disqualification of the work carried out by human rights defenders through public statements by State agents generates stigmatization, and at the same time, can generate a climate of hostility and intolerance on the part of different sectors of the population which hampers the legitimate exercise of their freedom of association”, it was assured in the published press release.
At the end of the document, the importance of defenders in the processes of strengthening and consolidating the democratic system was highlighted, as well as the need to protect those who defend the territory, since they are the ones who guarantee the sustainable development of the region. .