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Colombia: Human Rights

Question for Foreign and Commonwealth Office

UIN HL9774, tabled on 23 July 2018

To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they will encourage the government of Colombia to invite the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders to visit Colombia.

Answered on

6 August 2018

The UK encouraged the Colombian Government to invite the UN Special Rapporteur for Human Rights in our submission to Colombia's Universal Periodic Review in May of this year. The British Ambassador in Bogota has also raised with the incoming Foreign Minister.

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