Rights defenders targeted worldwide, report says (FIDH/OMCT)

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Rights defenders targeted worldwide, report says (FIDH/OMCT)

Mar 21, 2006 � GENEVA (Reuters) - More than 1,100 human rights defenders in 90 countries like Colombia, China and Russia were targeted for their activism last year and many were murdered, tortured or jailed, a report released on Wednesday showed. <snip>

Colombia, where 47 human rights defenders were killed and 15 others kidnapped or tortured last year, remained among the most dangerous in the world for activists who denounce their government's policy on security and human rights, it said. <snip>

The report blamed paramilitaries for most of the executions in Colombia, which also had the most trade union activists assassinated ... <snip>

http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=1752524

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Wed Mar-22-06 12:11 AM
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1. In the USA, they are "suicided."

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