Nota de Prensa Indígenas Wayuu y afrodescendientes exigen a la minera Anglo American retornar el agua al Arroyo Bruno desviado para la extracción de carbón. El 5 de mayo de 2020, Anglo American, una empresa multinacional minera (MNC por sus siglas en inglés) que cotiza en la bolsa de Londres celebrará su AGA a puertas...
ABColombia wrote the following letter to President Ivan Duque on 31 March 2020. You will find a copy of the letter in PDF in English and spanish if you click on the buttons above. The Coronavirus (COVID-19) is having a major global impact. Whilst the impacts vary from country to country, all governments are having...
Bogotá, 16 de marzo de 2020. Las organizaciones internacionales de sociedad civil que suscribimos el presente comunicado registramos con profundo dolor y preocupación, la persistencia e incremento de las amenazas, ataques, hostigamientos y asesinatos contra personas y organizaciones defensoras de los derechos humanos, firmantes del acuerdo de paz y aquellas que, en proceso de reincorporación,...
Human Rights Defenders Report of the visit of the UN Special Rapporteur to Colombia Geneva, 6 March 2020 Palace of the Nations, Room XXVII, 14.30h – 15:30h Organisers of the side event at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva: Oidhaco, CCEEU, Alianza, Plataforma DESC, Colombian Commission of Jurists, ABColombia, PBI, Business and Human Rights...
The Carbones de Cerrejón mine is owned by three multinational companies two of which are registered on the British Stock Exchange, Anglo American (British Company), BHP Billiton (Austrailian Company) and Glencore Xstrata (a Swiss Company). Cerrejon also has an office in Ireland. It is one of the largest open pit coal mines in the world...
On 27 August 2019, ABColombia sent a letter to the Colombian president Ivan Duque and other key figures in the Colombian Government. The letter expresses concern at the planned eviction of the Indigenous Wayuu community of El Rocío. The community is situated between Albania and Maicao in La Guajira, Colombia and lives in close proximity...
On 14 August 2019, ABColombia signed another joint open letter written by London Mining Network. This letter is following up on the serious environmental damage that has occurred from the diversion of the Bruno Stream for use by the Cerrejon mine, and the impact it has had on local communities. You can read the full...
The following open letter was sent on Monday 8 July 2019 to Cerrejon Coal and its multinational corporate owners. Coal mining in Colombia: Diversion of the Arroyo Bruno and fulfilment of Constitutional Court Sentence SU-698 of 2017. We are writing to express our deep concern about the continuing attempts by the Cerrejón Coal Company and...
Brussels/London, 13 May 2019. ABColombia, alongside more than 25 European and international organisations and networks, signed a public statement rejecting the murder attempt against leaders from Afro-Colombian collectives in Northern Cauca: ACONC, PCN and ASOM. The statement also highlights international concerns about threats against the Indigenous human rights organisation Fuerza de Mujeres Wayúu in La...
On 29 April 2019, Fuerza Mujeres Wayuu received death threats from a group identifying itself as Águilas Negras – Bloque Capital D.C. The following leaders were listed as particular targets: Karmen Ramírez, Miguel Iván Ramírez, Jakeline Romero, Deris Paz, Luis Misael Socarra and Dulcy Cotes. Moreover, members of the Wayúu community have reported the presence...
