Human Rights Watch asks to meet with VP Garzon

[Judi Lynn]

Human Rights Watch asks to meet with VP Garzon
Monday, 24 January 2011 13:01 Hannah Aronowitz

New York-based NGO Human Rights Watch (HRW) writes an open letter to Colombian Vice President Angelino Garzon seeking a meeting during his visit to the U.S., newspaper La Semana reported Monday.

In the letter, HRW director Jose Manuel Vivanca says he "hopes to discuss" the "pressing human rights problems facing Colombia" with the vice president during his stay in the U.S.

Vivanca acknowledges in the letter that current President Juan Manuel Santos, unlike his predecessor, has promoted important human rights initiatives, but added that when faced with such serious human rights abuses, the government needs to take more "decisive action to address them."

In a report compiled by HRW, an organization dedicated to protecting and defending human rights around the world, the organization's found that successors to paramilitary groups that the Colombian government claims are demobilized continue to be responsible for massacres, killings, forced displacement, rape, extortion and drug-trafficking.

More:
http://colombiareports.com/colombia-news/news/13890-human-rights-watch-asks-to-meet-with-vp-garzon.html

[naaman fletcher]

1. I thought HRW was totally unreliable? nt.