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Robbery of sensitive human rights information
Despite the Welcome gains in the Peace Talks in Havana there is a deterioration in the protection of the rights and the lives of human rights defenders; especially environmental defenders working on issues such as extractives. According to Somos Defensores, in the first nine months of 2015 there were 577 attacks against human rights...
UK National Action Plan on Business and Human Rights and gender equality
September 2015 Why the UK National Action Plan on Business and Human Rights must integrate and prioritise gender equality and women’s human rights ABColombia as part of the CORE Coalition (Corporate Responsibility) together with the Gender and the Development Network (GADN) presented to the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office our contribution on gender to the...
Women and Empowerment
4 August 2015 The Overseas Development Institute has published a new case study on women’s empowerment and conflict in Colombia, including acknowledgement to ABColombia. The report called “Progress despite adversity: Women’s empowerment and conflict in Colombia” explores the development of women’s empowerment in Colombia since 1990 in the context of armed conflict. It analyses how...
Protests against British based Oil Company in Colombian Amazon
Right now I feel worse than a trampled cockroach. I have never seen so many armed forces defending the individual interests of a multinational company and bypassing the collective interests of the farmers. (Jose Antonio Saldarriaga, leader of Valparaíso) Between 4 May and 30 June 2015, around 100 local farmers (campesinos) held peaceful protests in...
Alexander Lopez – humanitarian crisis in Buenaventura
In June 2015, Colombian congressman Alexander Lopez visited the Catalan and UK Parliaments to draw attention to the humanitarian crisis in Buenaventura. He addressed the interrelationship between foreign investment and human rights violations in one of the most violent cities in the world. Colombian Senator Alexander Lopez (middle) with UK Parliamentarians and representatives of NGOs...
Conflict Minerals: ABColombia signs open letter to Parliament
The European Union is the world’s largest economy, the world’s largest trading block, and home to 500 million consumers. Every year, millions of euro worth of minerals flow into the EU from some of the poorest places on earth. No questions are asked about how they are extracted, or whether their trade fuels conflict in...