July 3, 2023, 20:34 PM
July 3, 2023, 20:34 PM
The violation of people’s fundamental rights almost quadrupled between 2020 and 2022, according to the report by the National Union of Institutions for Social Action Work (Unitas), which monitored the cases. From 201 in 2020 it rose to 768 cases in 2022, reported by that institution.
Although there is a considerable quantitative difference, the events that led to this surge in numbers are intrinsically related. In general, they have to do with the strengthening of political tensions in the country that, due to different determinations and political interventions, confront the central government with different sectors of society”, indicates a part of the synthesis report presented by Unitas.
Fundamental freedoms such as association, expression and peaceful assembly; In addition to democratic institutions and the rights of rights defenders, they were the axes monitored and that deserved attention.
According to the report, In 2020 the number of monitored cases was lower due to the pandemic of the coronavirus, which quarantined the entire world and therefore, the sanitary measures to restrict mobility and assembly, led to the demobilization of the population in general, and with it a decrease in social conflicts.
For that reason the figures began to rise in 2021, because the restrictive measures disappeared and there was also a new government. Unitas believes that One of the conflicts that continued during 2021 and 2022 was that of the Yungueño coca growers, due to the government’s insistence on recognizing a parallel leadership and the resistance offered by the cocaleros. The year 2023 meant the persecution of all the leaders who encouraged these mobilizations.
“The same way, the tensions between the central government and the articulation of institutions and organizations from the department of Santa Cruz (Government, Civic Committee, and others) manifested itself in long-lasting conflicts and violent state intervention (law enforcement, judicialization, etc.)”, the report states at the same point.
In cases of freedom of the presswith him right of protest Civil rights were the most affected, due to the number of cases that were presented. All monitoring has a follow-up report in the media.
“The consolidated data (on freedom of expression) show us a worrying upward trajectory this year: it went from a total of 79 violations in 2020, to 67 in 2021, and finally to 202 in 2022. Although there is a specific category of violation in this regard, most of these cases are related, directly or indirectly, to the omission of the state duty to protect journalists in all facets of the exercise of their informative activity, ”says the related chapter. with the freedom of the press.
With these data, Unitas considers that journalists and press workers are the group identified as the most affected throughout the year 2022, regardless of the type of right analyzed.
