On 8 May 2012, members of human rights organisation Movimiento Nacional de Víctimas de Estado (MOVICE – National Movement of Victims of the State) were subjected to death threats.
On 7 May 2012, the office of women's rights organisation Women's Link Worldwide in Bogotá was shot at, in an apparent attempt at targeting human rights defender Ms Mónica Roa.
The last information on farmer leader and trade union activist Mr Hernán Henry Díaz's whereabouts was from 18 April 2012 and to date no new information has come to light.
On 30 April 2012 two unidentified persons were witnessed taking photographs of the home of Mr Vladimir Amaya Garcés, a security guard assigned to HRD Mr Abelardo Sánchez Serrano.
On 14 April 2012, Mr Raimundo “Cabeça” Alves Borges was murdered after being ambushed close to his home in Terra Bela settlement, in the city of Buriticupu, in Maranhao state.
On 14 April 2012, journalist Ms Dina Meetabel Meza Elvir received the latest in a series of threatening messages,who has also been subjected to surveillance and intimidation for a couple of months.