Community leader
Cases- Location of case in SG report
- 2020-028-001
- Relevant SG report
- Year of the report
- 2020
- From Country
- Country Geolocation
Latitude: 4.570868
Longitude: -74.297333
- Country Geolocation (linked Cases)
- Colombia
- From Region
- UN body that raised the case prior to the SG report
- UN Security Council
- Dates of prior UN action
- 19 July 2019
- Type of record
- Unnamed individual/group/organization
- Gender
- Female
- Was the victim a foreign national?
- No
- Was the victim a minor?
- No
- Individual's/organization's activity
community leaders who expressed concerns about the killing of social leaders
- Type of rights defended
- Civil/political rights
- Was the victim a civil servant or member of the security forces or of the judiciary?
- No
- Reported trigger of reprisal
Security Council delegation visited the Cauca Department and met community leaders who expressed concerns about the killing of social leaders
- Engagement with UN body
- UN Security Council
- Dates of engagement
- July 2019
- Type of attempted engagement
- Meeting with UN officials during country visit / with locally present UN officials
- Dates of mentioned reprisals
- July 2019
- Location of mentioned reprisals
- Cauca department
- Reprisal information
one woman was forced to cancel her participation in the meeting due to a threat received the previous night
- Types of reprisals suffered
- Threats/Intimidations (incl. "fear of reprisal")
- Alleged/likely perpetrators
- Unclear
- Was the reprisal based on new legislation?
- No
- Does the report make general comment about country’s environment for engagement with UN?
- No
- Government response dates
- 13 July 2020
- Government response content
highlighted that the Security Council delegation’s meeting took place with full guarantees for all, including social leaders, women leaders of the community and former combatants. The Government stated that the summary provided does not contain enough information to allow for an investigation, given it concerns an incident for which it did not receive reports, nor the name of the individual concerned.
- Is the country cited for a "pattern of reprisal" in the context of this case?
- No
- Is a pattern of reprisals mentioned otherwise in the context of this case?
- No
- Does the report cite "self-censorship" as an issue in the context of this case?
- No
- How many times has the case been followed up in subsequent SG reports?
- 0