Lærere i Colombia risikerer livet ved at gå på arbejde. Det viser en rapport, 'Colombia’s Classroom Wars', udgivet i 2009 af den internationale fagorganisation for undervisere, Education International:
According to the Colombian National Trade Union School, in the period between 1999 and 2005, there were 1,174 trade unionists reported killed throughout the world. Of those, 816 were Colombian.
What is less well known is that more than half -- 416 of them – were teachers or education workers, Novelli reports. The vast majority of these assassinations are attributed to right-wing paramilitary organizations with links to the Colombian state. Virtually all of the perpetrators have committed their crimes with impunity.
