Colombia 'panic buttons' expose activists

Tuesday, March 28, 2017

It is supposed to help protect human-rights activists, labor organizers and journalists working in risky environments, but a GPS-enabled "panic button" Colombia's government has issued to about 400 people could be exposing them to more peril.

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