COLOMBIA: VIDEO testimony of Lawyer Zoraida Hernández

What is needed for lawyers to be able to practice their profession freely in Colombia?

Zoraida Hernández Pedraza, colombian human rights lawyer shares with you her opinion on the situation of the legal profession in Colombia:

Zoraida Hernández, who has 26 years of human rights experience in Colombia, has suffered extensively with her family from violence against human rights lawyers. Zoraida exposes the need to take measures against the current military doctrine in Colombia to ensure the international human rights standards granted to human rights defenders.

Read more about Ms. Hernandez’s work in the article dedicated to the Interational Day of Lawyers in Danger.