Colombia: Authorities must guarantee effective protection of women human rights defenders
| Publisher | Amnesty International |
| Publication Date | 13 April 2018 |
| Cite as | Amnesty International, Colombia: Authorities must guarantee effective protection of women human rights defenders, 13 April 2018, available at: https://www.refworld.org/docid/5b32326e4.html [accessed 19 May 2023] |
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13 April 2018, 12:04 UTC
Following the killing of Doris Valenzuela, Colombian human rights defender, in Murcia, Spain, on 11 April, Erika Guevara Rosas, Americas Director at Amnesty International, said:
"It is with great sadness that we received the terrible news of the death of the brave human rights defender Doris Valenzuela, who was forced to leave Colombia due to a lack of guarantees for her and her family's safety, and who sadly died in Spain as a result of gender-based violence.
"It is unacceptable that women defenders continue to suffer double violence: for being activists and for being women, with that violence often coming from those closest to them. It is imperative that the Colombian state guarantee effective protection of women human rights defenders through differentiated measures with a gender perspective, so that cases like that of Doris do not happen again."
