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In the Dock and Under the Gun: Baseless Prosecutions of Human Rights Defenders in Colombia

Two of Colombia's leading human rights activists, Luz Marina Monzon and Liliana Andrea Avila, will provide firsthand testimony of how the Colombian legal system is used to silence and stigmatize the human rights movement. Andrew Hudson will present Human Rights First's new report which for the first time documents the extensive use of specious criminal investigations in Colombia. Copies of the new report are available at http://www.humanrightsfirst.org/defenders/reports/index.aspx. Panelists: Liliana Andrea Avila, Member, Colombian Inter-Church Commission for Justice and Peace Luz Marina Monzon, Human Rights Advisor, Colombian Commission of Justice Andrew Hudson, Senior Associate, Human Rights Defenders Program, Human Rights First Hadar Harris (moderator), Executive Director, Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law

Full post as published by Washington College of Law Podcasts on March 27, 2009 (boomark / email).