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In 1987, Yanette Bautista lost her sister at the hands of Colombian state agents. Now, she is spearheading a bill to protect the women who have dedicated their lives to searching for their missing loved ones in a country where at least 200,000 people have been disappeared
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An estuary that empties in the bay of Buenaventura, along Colombia’s Pacific coast, sets a legal precedent for the country after the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) opened precautionary measures for a location where the remains of disappeared persons are allegedly buried.
The decision to give protection status to the San Antonio Estuary, while the tribunal gathers evidence from families as well as human rights organizations, could potentially open the flood gates for other waterways, including reservoirs and hydro-electric dams, to be classified as “crime scenes” given atrocities committed by the country’s illegal armed groups during more than a half-century of internal conflict.