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Luz Elena Galeano Laverde
HRD
Luz Elena Galeano lives in Comuna 13 in Medellín, a neighborhood in this city that has suffered great violence at the hands of the Colombian military, paramilitaries, narco-trafficking gangs and rebels. Her husband Luis was forcibly disappeared in 2008, and since then she has worked tirelessly for the rights of victims and their families.