STATISTICS

RELATED TO THE
MURDER OF
COMMUNITY
LEARDERS IN
COLOMBIA
SINCE THE PEACE TREATY IN 2016,

904
community leaders and
human rights defenders have
been killed in Colombia.

276
former FARC combatants
have been murdered.
 

302
investigative processes have been
opened to cases of murders of
social leaders. Of these, only 117
have been clarified

64.2%
of the murders occurred in areas
prioritized by the State to avoid
the sources of violence in 2020.

ARE WE REALLY IN A COUNTRY OF PEACE?

Violence against social leaders is concentrated precisely in the marginalized
regions affected by the armed conflict. The victims are people who defend
the human rights of their communities, people who reject mineral
extraction projects that are detrimental to the environment, or those who
demand a fairer distribution of the land, and also former FARC combatants.