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September 28, 2018

Colombia: Land Defenders Increasingly Murdered With Impunity
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And in Colombia, human rights groups are warning of an epidemic of
murders targeting environmentalists and leaders of social movements. New
statistics compiled by a Colombian human rights group found more than
38,000 people have been displaced and 110 social leaders killed in the
first eight months of the year. The swell in violence is centered in
areas where armed conflict has been historically most active, and as
Colombia's peace process has faltered under its new right-wing
president, Iván Duque.


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