Human Rights (Colombia)

Part of the debate – in Westminster Hall at 12:10 pm on 22 November 2011.

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Photo of Eric Joyce Eric Joyce Labour, Falkirk 12:10, 22 November 2011

Does my hon. Friend agree that we tend to conflate the issues of drugs and human rights in Colombia but that human rights problems existed long before the country was effectively the centre of the world as far as cocaine production was concerned? Any solution, therefore, must not simply involve killing the likes of Alfonso Cano but have social justice at its core.