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Report by USOC and WOLA: Human Rights during the Juan Manuel Santos administration’s first year in Office
America / Colombia / Latin America
Saturday 1 October 2011 by WOLA , USOC
Human Rights during the Juan Manuel Santos administration’s first year in Office
29 September 2011
The U.S. Office on Colombia (USOC) and the Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA) released a report today that assesses President Santos’s first year in office and his administration’s actions on key human rights concerns. The report offers analysis on the topics of extrajudicial executions, human rights defenders, Afro-Colombians, indigenous peoples, internal displacement, the Victims Law and sexual violence against women. It concludes that while the Santos administration offers an important political opportunity to strengthen the human rights agenda in the country, it also faces great obstacles in effectively translating better discourse into effective actions.
This report provides an analysis of the Juan Manuel Santos’ administration first year in office on key issues of human rights including protection of human rights defenders, extrajudicial executions, forced disappearances, rights of ethnic communities and others. Its goal is to document advances made in terms of policies and measures taken by the Colombian government on these key rights issues, as well as to point out where the effective promotion, respect and protection of human rights in Colombia is not taking place.
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