Over the two terms of Mr. Uribe's time as president in Colombia he has made numerous public accusations against human rights defenders in particular, but also journalists and trade unionists, as being terrorists, or as being militants of terrorist organizations, or covering up for terrorists.
This is extremely unfortunate, but also extremely dangerous in a situation like Colombia, where to be linked with a guerrilla or a terrorist organization is tantamount to having a target on your forehead. Human rights organizations internationally have repeatedly asked that this kind of public and official statement not be made because it is indeed so dangerous, and absolutely inappropriate as well. It's unfortunate that those statements have been made and continue to be made, if not by the president, then by some of his closest allies.
Getting back to the point of whether the amendment dealing with human rights has credibility, I would say it does not. Regardless of who is collecting that information, the Colombian government will still have, as I understand it, a fair amount of control over what the report says because it will be reporting on them. Indeed, it will be difficult I think to be able to make a fair and impartial judgment of the human rights situation at that point.