Global Rights Leaders Convene in Bogotá to Counter Surging Organized Crime

2 days ago7 min read

Bogotá is hosting a pivotal global summit this week as the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) gathers over 400 defenders from 100+ countries. The 42nd FIDH Congress represents a strategic counter-offensive against sophisticated criminal networks that have turned Latin America into a primary battleground for human rights.The region's evolution from the cartel eras of Medellín and Cali to today's fragmented landscape of groups like Mexico's Jalisco New Generation Cartel and Brazil's Primeiro Comando da Capital demonstrates an alarming trend: these organizations now function as parallel states with their own economies, judicial systems, and armies. The systematic targeting of environmental defenders in the Amazon, social leaders in rural Colombia, and journalists across Central America constitutes a coordinated campaign to dismantle civil society.Delegates are exchanging survival strategies and documenting atrocities while advocating for a global response proportionate to the threat. This gathering reframes organized crime as a fundamental human rights crisis requiring transnational solutions, occurring against a backdrop of communities increasingly abandoned to the rule of armed syndicates.

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