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Rocío Granados Medina

HRD, Educator

She is an educator, activist in the university student movement and human rights defender in the department of Meta. She has worked with the Luceros Feministas collective, the Aliadas collective and the Commission for the Clarification of the Truth. Her work with victims has focused on non-repetition, especially with women and LGBTI people.

HRDs in Colombia work in a violent and unsafe environment. They are subjected to threats, intimidation, arbitrary detention, enforced disappearances, physical assaults, torture, killings, illegal searches of their homes and offices and stigmatisation as a result of their activities in defence of human rights.