Human Rights Issues of Colombia

Human Rights Issues of Colombia

Internal displacement in Colombia is one of the world’s major human rights problems. 3 through 4 million people have been forced to run away to escape their homes and look for refuge elsewhere in the country. According to the human rights organization CODHES (Consultoría para los Derechos Humanos y el Desplazamiento), more than 380,000 people were forced to run away and escape from their homes in 2008, an growth of more than 24 percent over the 2007. This advance has been put down in a large part to intense fighting between the security forces and guerrilla groups, especially in the south of the country. There are many reasons why people are running away. The total factor that has advance armed conflict are  guerrilla and paramilitaries activities against civilians that are seen united of their enemies, land conflict, economic interests and fear of the terror and human rights abuses committed by all parties in the conflict.Some of the reasons are accidental victims caught up in the aggression, but in many cases displacement is a intentional plan of action used by the parties to the conflict to clean civilians from areas that they believe are controlled by their enemies, or as a means to win control over areas of economic. Indigenous People, Afro-descendant and campesino communities make up are the ones who are being internally displaced. They are at particular risk of displacement, particularly in areas that have been earmarked for large economic projects, such as mineral and oil exploration, agro-industrial developments or hydro-electric installations.
Impunity in which human rights abuses, targeting killings, and disappearances remain unpunished, has existed in Colombia for decades. Impunity, more than any other factor, has been responsible for prolonging the human rights crisis. Not only are the perpetrators of human rights abuses like massacres, but those who work to prosecute those perpetrators, including witnesses, lawyers, judges, human rights defenders, families of victims, and prosecutors involved in human rights cases, are regularly threatened and killed..
We people from other countries should care about it because only in Colombia there are some big rights issues and only a few of people are helping them. Not only Colombia is having human rights issues, other countries are having the similar problem and we shouldn’t only help one country we should help many countries as we can. Things like having people kick out of their homes is something that can’t be ignored is something that needs to be helped. People are getting killed because they are fighting for their rights and that’s another thing we can’t ignore because what if that happens to us someday.

http://www.amnestyusa.org/all-countries/colombia/impunity/page.do?id=1721061
http://www.amnestyusa.org/all-countries/colombia/internal-displacement/page.do?id=1721058
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19C574u6Cj4