http://dx.doi.org/10.59704/04c9ea1f21eee50d https://verfassungsblog.de/right-to-defend-rights-colombia/ The Right to Defend Rights - How Recent Rulings are Protecting Human Rights Defenders in Colombia and Latin America Castro Herrera, Sindy Barragán, Maryluz eng 2024-08-06 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 Colombia Colombian Constitutional Court Human Rights Human Rights Human Rights Defenders Inter-American Court of Human Rights Inter-American Human Rights System Interamerikanischer Gerichtshof für Menschenrechte | San José (Costa Rica) Human Rights Interamerikanischer Gerichtshof für Menschenrechte | San José (Costa Rica) Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-SA 4.0 On April 21, Narciso Beleño, a rural (campesino) leader and human rights defender who worked for the restitution of land and the sustainable exploitation of natural resources in Colombia, was murdered. Sadly, this is not an isolated case. 79% of the murders of human rights defenders occur in the Americas, with 47% in Colombia alone. Two recent judgments by the Constitutional Court of Colombia and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights have now addressed the phenomenon and gave legal life to the right to defend human rights.