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Deadly violence against Colombia's labor unionists on the rebound
by Megan Janetsky September 7, 2018
Colombia is seeing a resurgence of violence and death threats against trade unionists, according to labor rights organization Escuela Nacional Sindical (ENS).
So far in 2018, 14 trade unionists have been murdered in the country and 134 have received threats among other counts of violence. More than half of those instances have been documented in the past three months, according to the report.
Over the course of 2017, ENS documented 14 murders of trade unionists and 125 threats over the course of 2017. The data also showed that acts against unions overall have nearly quadrupled since 2017.
Counts of homicides and death threat against those groups have declined since former President Alvaro Uribe left office in 2010. But now, with Uribe’s hard-right Democratic Center (CD) party back in power, reports of violence against trade unionists are once again picking up.
More:
https://colombiareports.com/deadly-violence-against-colombias-trade-unionists-on-the-rebound/
