 In 2010, according to the Colombian-based human rights organisation "Somos Defensores", at least 174 acts of aggression towards human rights defenders were committed.This included 32 murders and 109 death threats.As Human Rights First reports, attacks against human rights defenders include also ‘smear campaigns and break-ins, threatening and omnipresent surveillance, physical assaults, kidnapping, violence directed toward family members, and assassination attempts’.