Colombia grilled by UN human rights committee
Colombia grilled by UN human rights committee
written by Adriaan Alsema October 20, 2016
Colombia government representatives were grilled by the United Nations’ Human Rights Committee on Wednesday over the South American country’s human rights situation.
The UN inquiry on Colombia’s human rights situation was the first in six years and held in Geneva, Switzerland by a panel of 18 independent international human rights experts.
As part of the inquiry, a variety of human rights organizations presented their cases after which it was the turn of the state to respond to the accusations before a highly critical committee.
Committee chairman Sir Nigel Rodley told the Colombian delegation, led by the presidential adviser on human rights Paula Gaviria, that the Colombian state seems to “enter a state of amnesia” when it comes to surrendering information to the committee to study the country’s human rights situation.
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