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JANUARY 28, 2012

Over the last 17 years, Kar and I crossed paths in Haiti, Guatemala, Colombia, and many times at the American Association for the Advancement of Science, AAAS. Kar was a forensic anthropologist who specialized in human rights cases, and she was a founders of our Colombian partner organization EQUITAS ).

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FEBRUARY 17, 2010

Although I began reading academic papers that described the social and political climate in Colombia, as I dove into the data, I never saw the names of victims-- only counts of those who had died. And then we went to Colombia. Tags: NNs Rionegro HRDAG human rights Casanare Colombia.

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OCTOBER 31, 2008

Guest blog from Beatriz, one of Benetech's human rights team members in Colombia. But today's mood in Colombia is more somber than usual. We Colombians are a resilient breed, accustomed to waking up to all kinds of distressing news and still somehow managing to go about our daily business.

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DECEMBER 10, 2011

Through projects that integrated statistical analyses into multidisciplinary human rights work, we engaged in the public debate about human rights violations in Colombia. This analysis is now helping to reframe how sexual violence is studied and understood by groups in Colombia and by the United Nations. and the European Union.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2010

Tags: HRDAG human rights disappearances Casanare Colombia.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2007

Clinton has a great talent for making everybody feel like they're important: I liked the way he interacted with Vicky Colbert, the great education social entrepreneur from Colombia.

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DECEMBER 17, 2010

The past year of research by HRDAG analysts has supported key criminal prosecutions and uncovered the truth about political violence in Guatemala, Iran, Colombia, Chad and Liberia. They revealed the culpability of powerful people who never expected that these records would ever be exposed to public scrutiny - let alone scientific analysis.

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