Government calls on the Commission for guarantees for the warning of crimes against social leaders

The national government has called for the National Security Guarantees Commission next Tuesday, to take action against the repeated murders of social leaders in the country

In the meeting will be President Juan Manuel Santos, and will seek to adopt new protections for leaders and defenders of human rights.

"We are very worried about what is happening, there are 33 killings This year, the commission will meet to badess the situation and take new security measures," said Interior Minister Guillermo Rivera Thursday.

The Commission, created with the signing of peace with the Farc, is composed of the President of the Republic, the Ministries of the Interior, Defense and Justice; the attorney general of the nation, the ombudsman and the attorney general of the nation.

Similarly, the Commission is part of the director of the Special Investigation Unit for the dismantling of criminal organizations and directs the commander-in-chief. military forces, the director general of the National Police, three recognized experts in the field, two delegates human rights platforms.

Minister Rivera also indicated that a special decree would be made official that day. Collective Security, for which four pilot plans have already been made, which he said, "were built between the community, the authorities, mayors, governors and the Ministry of the Interior." is that the community itself defines part of this security strategy, "said the political portfolio chief.

Among the recommendations, proposed by the communities and hosted by Minister Rivera, include the improvement of public lighting in places where live or work threatened leaders, the installation of the community, and the development of public buildings. antennas to improve communication, especially mobile phones, because in many areas, telephony does not exist.

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The minister insisted that among the first hypotheses evaluated on deaths, Threats have been caused by the leadership that they exert from their communities for social work.

Rivera said that this model of collective protection will start quickly, and said that they hope to be replicated after

The minister also referred to the demands that have been made since the movement Colombia Humana, the political party of ex-candidate Gustavo Petro, from where the persecution was denounced to its members. "We attended a team of leaders, along with Councilman Holman Morris, who met with the director of the National Protection Unit and badyzed the threats to their members. leaders, "he said.

Rivera felt that the safety of social leaders is the main problem that the new government will face, and that this has been explained inside the process of 39, membership that took place.

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Cauca, Nariño, Bajo Cauca, Bajo Atrato and Catatumbo and Norte de Santander, are the most at-risk areas, he says.

For its part, the General Confederation of Labor expressed its concern "about the alarming increase in the genocide of social leaders in different parts of the country" and asked the Office of the Prosecutor, the National Police, to National Protection Unit and other security entities "redouble efforts to guarantee the lives of those fighting for the defense of human rights and achieve the reconciliation of Colombians . "