Liliana Ávila, AIDA human rights attorney and Colombian citizen, states: We categorically condemn the extreme use of force against demonstrators and demand that the lives and rights of all citizens be respected.

The Interamerican Association for Environmental Defense (AIDA) emphatically rejects the abuses of security forces and expresses our deep concern about the lack of guarantees for social protest in Colombia.Īccording to reports from national and international organizations, in recent days dozens of people have lost their lives in the context of state repression and hundreds more have been injured. The Census states: 'Although the thresholds in some sense reflect a family’s needs, they are intended for use as a statistical yardstick, not as a complete description of what people and families need to live.In the last week, protests in Colombia over a proposed tax reform have spurred a national mobilization against poverty and inequality, to which the Colombian government has reacted with repression, extreme violence and assassinations. While the poverty thresholds are adjusted each year based on inflation, they do not reflect regional differences in cost of living: the poverty thresholds are the same everywhere in the United States. The National Center for Children in Poverty reports that the level of income families typically require to make ends meet is nearly twice the federal poverty thresholds. An individual is considered in poverty if their income within the last 12 months was below poverty level.

If a family's total income is less than the corresponding threshold, then that family and every individual in it is considered in poverty.

In 2018, the federal poverty income threshold was $25,465 for a family of four with two children, and $17,308 for a single parent of one child.

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