Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent reports he has received of killings of Colombian human rights activists.

Our officials in Bogotá received a report from the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCHR) on 22 June, that 21 human rights defenders (HRDs) had been murdered so far this year.

The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) will publish its in-year update to the annual Human Rights Report on Colombia later this month. This will contain the most recent data collected from a wide range of official sources regarding human rights abuses. All reports can be found on the FCO’s website:
www.gov.uk/government/publications/colombia-country-of-concern/colombia-country-of-concern