La Colosa is AngloGold Ashanti’s proposed project for an open-pit gold mine spanning several rural municipalities in the department of...
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Delegation to Parliamentarians to Colombia 2022
ABColombia’s delegation report on: Business, Environment and Human Rights, Justice and Sustainable Peace, and Women and Conflict related sexual violence....
The Wayúu Indigenous Peoples continue their Struggle for the rights of the Arroyo Bruno
“..the circular insanity of allowing the destruction of one of the most beautiful bio diverse places on this planet, to...
Proposed new Best Coal Company (BCC) open pit mine at Cañaverales
The village of Cañaverales is in the municipality of San Juan del Cesar in the south of the department of...
Public Statement: Colombian government authorises further destruction of Arroyo Bruno in La Guajira
On April 6 Government institutions announced their “final” decision to endorse the destruction of the natural course of the Bruno...
World Water Day 2021
The UN theme of World Water Day 2021 is valuing water. Without a comprehensive understanding of water’s true, multidimensional value,...
Cerrejón Accused before the OECD of Human Rights Abuses and Environmental Damage
On 19 January 2021, ABColombia together with Centro de Investigación y Educación Popular (CINEP), the Colectivo de Abogados ‘José Alvear...
Digging Deep: Mining in Colombia & the urgent need for a UN Binding Treaty
Virtual Side Event: To mark the 6th Session of the open-ended intergovernmental working group on transnational corporations and other business...
UN expert calls for halt to mining at Carbones de Cerrejon’s controversial Colombia site
UN expert David R. Boyd UN Special Rapporteur on human rights and the environment calls for halt to mining at Carbones de Cerrejon...