Region:Americas

Country:Colombia

Department/Province/State:Antioquia

Sex¹:Male

Date of Killing:22/10/2017

Previous Threats:No, but previous threats to colleagues

Type of Work:Community leader

Organisation:Junta de Acción Comunal (JAC) de la verda La Unión / Asociación Campesina del Bajo Cauca (ASOCBAC) / Asociación Nacional de Zonas de Reservas Campesinas (ANZORC) / Coordinadora Nacional de Cultivadores de Coca, Amapola y Marihuana (COCCAM)

Sector or Type of Rights the HRD Worked On:ESC Rights

Sector Detail:Land rights, Peasant communities

More information:Programa Somos Defensores

¹This database records an individual's chosen gender identity. If they do not self-identify as male or female they can use the option of recording other/neither or use the term NBGI (non binary gender identity).

URLs (links) of Interest

https://somosdefensores.org/informe-anual-2017-sistema-de-informacion-sobre-agresiones-contra-personas-defensoras-de-dd-hh-en-colombia-siaddhh/

https://www.lapazenelterreno.com/lider-social/miguel-edmiro-perez-villamizar

https://analisisurbano.org/condenado-excabecilla-de-los-caparrapos-por-homicidio-de-lider-de-sustitucion-de-cultivos-del-bajo-cauca/

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