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<h1 class="reader-title">Colombia: 27 Social Leaders Killed in
27 days of 2020</h1>
January 28, 2020</div>
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<p>The Colombian Institute for Development and Peace
Studies (Indepaz) revealed Monday that in the first 27
days of 2020, 27 social leaders and four former
combatants and signatories of the 2016 Peace Agreement
have been killed.</p>
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Peace Deal Signatory Assassinated</a></strong></em></p>
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<p>The figure was released after the recent assassination
of the social leader Fernando Quintero Mena, in the
northern municipality of Convencion, at the hands of
armed men.</p>
<p>As a human rights defender is murdered on average in
Colombia every day, the United Nations High Commissioner
for Human Rights Office in the Latin American country
urged President Ivan Duque to take structural measures
to protect the lives of leaders and ex-combatants
protected under the peace process.</p>
<p>Last week, the non-governmental organization Oxfam also
called on the Colombian government to take efficient
preventive measures in a context marked by violence
against social leaders, rejecting the wave of murders
against social leaders. </p>
<p>Colombia continues to be one of the most unstable
countries in the region due to the insecurity
experienced by social leaders and former members of
armed groups who signed the peace agreement.</p>
<p>According to the U.N, since the peace agreement
signing, more than 300 murders of human rights leaders
have occurred; while another four ex-FARC members and
peace agreement signatories have been murdered in 2020.</p>
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