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Jan 01, 1954 70 years old
Colombian human rights activist
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About Jaime Prieto Mendez
- Jaime Prieto Mendez (born 1 January 1954) is a Colombian human rights activist.
- The Robert F.
- Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights describes him as "internationally regarded as a founder of the modern Colombian human rights movement", and in 1998 awarded him its Robert F.
- Kennedy Human Rights Award along with fellow Colombian activists Berenice Celeyta, Gloria Florez, and Mario Calixto.Prieto began his career as a teacher in a poor area of Bogotá.
- Feeling that lack of "human rights literacy" increased the abuses against the poor, he began a human rights education program for which authorities later imprisoned him.
- In 1976, he joined the Committee in Solidarity with Political Prisoners, and in 1990 he became its executive director, a position he held until 1998.
- He then took a teaching position at a university in Bogotá.
