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Government systematically ignoring alert system put in place to prevent killing of social leaders
by Jake Kincaid May 6, 2019
Carlos Guevara
A top Ombudsman official said Monday that the government is systematically ignoring early warnings that could save social leaders’ and fails to allocate funds that could improve security.
The Ombudsman’s early alerts analyst Carlos Guevara, said at an event supported by the European Union in Bogota that the government does not effectively respond to warnings from the Ombudsman’s office.
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Guevara added that the protection of social leaders requires a significant investment of resources that are not in the National Development Plan. For example, the National Protection Unit (UNP) that protects threatened individuals, needs at least an extra $300,000 to cover the expanding threats that is not in Duque’s spending plans.
The critical situation for social leaders became painfully visible in southwest Colombia on Saturday when a group of armed men tried to assassinate Francia Marquez, an environmental and black rights activist who won the prestigious Goldman Environmental Award last year.
More:
https://colombiareports.com/government-systematically-ignoring-alert-system-put-in-place-to-prevent-killing-of-social-leaders/