A/HRC/31/3/Add.2 76. Violations of right to health observed in other departments, including Amazonas, Caquetá, Putumayo and Arauca, particularly affect indigenous peoples and require a resolute State response. Problems include inadequate access to drinking water, basic sanitation and primary, secondary and tertiary health services; lack of medicines and personnel; scarcity of means for treating victims of sexual violence; and non-recognition of indigenous and Afro-Colombian health perspectives. 77. La Guajira Department receives more oil revenue than most departments, yet it is one of the poorest. According to the National Health Institute, 37 persons died of malnutrition there in 2015 and 492 children were born underweight. The national Government recognized the problem but corruption and a lack of transparency undermined its response. OHCHR-Colombia welcomes the arrest warrants issued for public officials linked to massive corruption that diverted public resources for child services in La Guajira. 78. OHCHR-Colombia highlights advances in the development of education programmes for children with disabilities in Antioquia and Nariño and observes with interest the creation of the Department of Social Prosperity pilot programme entitled “More families in action”. However, children with disabilities do not enjoy access to the education system in many parts of the country and, as a consequence, do not receive such assistance. B. Human rights defenders 79. The work of human rights defenders represents a cornerstone for democracy and the promotion of an equitable and sustainable peace. However, violence against defenders continues and the State has yet to achieve full respect and protection of their rights and work. In 2015, OHCHR-Colombia registered 295 attacks against 885 defenders, including 310 women. The Somos Defensores programme and OHCHR-Colombia registered the murder of 63 defenders. OHCHR-Colombia has verified 41 of those cases and continues to monitor the others. The figures are above the national average of the past 20 years.4 OHCHR-Colombia also registered 20 attempted killings, including 9 against trade unionists; 151 individual and collective death threats; and 80 complaints of illegal surveillance. In 2015, it recorded the existence of 39 pamphlets threatening 211 women, 298 men and 47 social organizations. The consistency and commonalities of language, message and target victims and organizations reveal a high level of perpetrator organization. This confirms the hostile and insecure environment faced by defenders. The Attorney General obtained one conviction in 2015 for such crimes. 80. OHCHR-Colombia observed that violations against human rights defenders were perpetrated principally against four targets: first, defenders working on issues related to conflicts over land, particularly Afro-descendant and indigenous territories. The murder of four indigenous Emberá-Chamí leaders in Caldas and Risaralda in 2015, and the constant threats against community council members in the Pacific region, occurred in the context of opposition to illegal and legal mining. Threats against the indigenous Nasa people in Cauca increased in response to the people’s actions to protect their territories. Of the 36 killings of defenders, 19 were related to such conflicts. 81. A second target are defenders demanding justice. In multiple cases, victims’ representatives are targeted, especially those that litigate human rights violations by State 4 From 1994 to 2014, 683 human rights defenders were killed; an average of 33 defenders were murdered per year over the past 20 years (figures consolidated by OHCHR-Colombia, in the framework of the National Guarantees Round Table, with information provided by the Attorney General’s Office and civil society organizations). 15