Impunity remains high for crimes against Colombian unionists .
Impunity remains high for crimes against Colombian unionists .
Tuesday, 13 March 2012 15:42
Christan Leonard
Almost 95% of murders of trade unionists in Colombia have gone unpunished, the United Nations revealed Tuesday.
Between 1984 and 2011, 2,800 unionists were killed, 216 were disappeared, 83 were tortured, and 163 were abducted, nearly all with impunity, the Colombia Office of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) said in a report.
According to "Recognizing the Past, Constructing the Future," the number of recorded killings has dropped in recent years but the number of threats has increased since 2007.
Coordinator of the report Carlos Miguel Ortiz told press he doubted whether the rate of violence had declined at all.
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