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Weekly Report - 08 February 2018 (WR-18-05)

COLOMBIA: Prioritising protection of community leaders

The current wave of murders of community leaders in Colombia has become a major of source of international concern. The United Nations (UN) peace verification mission in Colombia, which is tasked with monitoring the progress of the peace process that the government led by President Juan Manuel Santos has been advancing with the country’s guerrillas, has warned that failure to protect community leaders could unravel the peace process. This has prompted the Santos government to announce the adoption of new measures designed to improve the protection of community leaders across the country.

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