On 21 January 2024, Ombudsman Carlos Camargo Assis urged government institutions to implement comprehensive plans so that children in Colombia do not continue to be affected by food insecurity. According to statistics from the Instituto Nacional de Salud (INS), more than 230 children under the age of five died of malnutrition in Colombia in 2023....
International Investment Agreements (IIAs) set out the conditions and obligations regarding the promotion and protection of investments made by investors from respective countries in each other’s territory and take the form of Bilateral Investment Treaties (BIT) or other trade agreements including investment chapters. The investor protection provisions between Colombia and the UK are contained...
Please write to your MP and ask them to #SignEDM136! You can find a template letter/email here. MPs have public contact details so that you, as their constituents, can get in touch. To see who your MP is, go to https://www.theyworkforyou.com and enter your postcode. You can then copy and paste the letter we have...
Indigenous communities in Colombia are are reporting a devastation of their land, water and sacred spaces as a result of coal mining by British-registered multinational Glencore PLC. Ask your MP to sign EDM 136 more information here Glencore PLC is the sole owner of the Cerrejón mine, La Guajira, Colombia, which is one of the...
Leading environmental laws in Colombia still far from implementation “This World Water Day is about accelerating change to solve the water and sanitation crisis”. UN, World Water Day In 2023 the United Nations is raising awareness of the importance of water as a vital source of life for people, but also highlighting its connection with...
There is an urgent need to mitigate the climate crisis, but this has to be done as a just transition towards clean energy and it cannot require the global south to carry the costs of this transition. The current Colombian Government’s ambitious agenda to move away from fossil fuels and to invest heavily in renewable...
ABColombia is increasingly seeing the investor-State dispute settlement mechanism (ISDS) mechanisms in Investment and Trading Agreements used by multinational companies in Colombia, to chill legislation on human and environmental rights and to prevent the implementation of Constitutional Court decisions designed to uphold these rights. Multinationals causing countries to chill the formulation and implementation of legislation...
ABColombia’s delegation report on: Business, Environment and Human Rights, Justice and Sustainable Peace, and Women and Conflict related sexual violence. The Delegation met in La Guajira with Afro-Colombian and Indigenous Peoples impacted by the Carbones de Cerrejón (Cerrejón) open pit coal mine, and the Cañaverales community in the area of impact of the proposed Best...
On April 6 Government institutions announced their “final” decision to endorse the destruction of the natural course of the Bruno stream in southern La Guajira. According to The Lawyers Collective – Colectivo de Abogados José Alvear Restrepo (CAJAR) the decision is based on a study with technical and scientific insufficiencies, rigged, without rigor and with...
While Colombia experiences three times the global average of rainfall per country, the water distribution is uneven. The large majority of freshwater is located in the Amazon Basin and the department of Chocó. According to Water Aid 1.2 million people in Colombia live without access to clean water.
