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Posted by Justice for Colombia | Date 7 October 2008

Colombian Human Rights Lawyers to Speak in Parliament

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Justice for Colombia urges all supporters to attend an event in Parliament at 6pm on Tuesday 14th October to meet with two visiting human rights lawyers from Colombia. Yenly Angelica Mendez and Dora Lucy Arias will be joined by Tony Lloyd MP, the Chair of the Parliamentary Labour Party, and Sara Chandler of the Law Society, for a discussion on the current human rights situation in Colombia.

The meeting will be held in Committee Room 21 of the House of Commons and is open to all. Chairing the meeting will be Labour Party National Executive Committee member Ellie Reeves, who like all of the other British speakers, has visited Colombia herself.

For more information click here or on the flyer to the left.

Yenly Angelica Mendez works for 'Humanidad Vigente', a coalition of human rights lawyers in Colombia that acts on behalf of persecuted trade unions and other social organisations. She is currently representing with the ACVC – a regional association of peasant farmers that has been the subject of intense persecution over the past two years, including numerous extra-judicial executions at the hands of the Colombian security forces and a spurious legal case against it based on false testimony and army intelligence reports.

Dora Lucy Arias is a member of the Jose Alvear Restrepo Lawyers' Collective, an internationally respected group of human rights lawyers that represents victims of human rights abuses. The Collective has taken several cases against the Colombian State to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. As a result of their work some of the Collective's lawyers have been targeted and one of the founding members, Eduardo Umana Mendoza, was murdered in his Bogota home.

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