In anticipation of today’s Human Rights Council meeting in Geneva, Colombia officials are admitting that it has fallen short in addressing human rights problems in that country. Colombia Reports notes:
The government says forced displacement, to include indigenous populations from their native lands, is the country’s largest human rights violation. The government says the official number of 2.6 million displaced is probably a positive estimate and there is not a sufficient policy to help these victims of the war.
While it’s nice that the Colombian government is admitting the obvious, action is what is called for here. I wonder if this is just a quick attempt at cleaning up its mess in order to get a green light from the U.S. Congress as it desperately attempts to revive the Colombia-U.S. Free Trade Agreement.
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