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THE UK-COLOMBIA BILATERAL INVESTMENT TREATY
By ABColombiaIn Briefings, Human Rights, Reports
July 2014 The UK-Colombia Bilateral Investment Treaty is before the House of Commons for ratification on Thursday 10 July 2014. Lord Stevenson of Balmacara has asked for a debate on UK-Colombia Bilateral Investment Treaty (BIT) in the House of Lords, which will be held before the end of the parliamentary session. This BIT poses grave...
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Palm Cultivation and the Communities of Curvaradó and Jiguamiandó.
By ABColombiaIn News, News ArchiveTags Afro-Colombian, conflict, Curbarado, Human Rights, Jiguamiando
2014 Colombia has suffered one of the worst and most hidden humanitarian crisis with 5.7 million people internally displaced, from between 6.8 and 10 million hectares of land. This amounts to more than the combined territory of Ireland and Wales and more than the whole of the population of Scotland. The Pacific Coast of Colombia...
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David Ravelo Crespo
By Louise WinstanleyIn Human Rights, News ArchiveTags Campesinos, Forced Disappearances, HRDs, Human Rights, Paramilitaries
Given what we have observed in the regions, we affirm once again that human rights defenders continue to find themselves in a worrying situation of vulnerability and we call on the Colombian State to increase its efforts to guarantee that they can carry out their labour free of threats and risks. Speech by the Representative...
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Mande Norte Mining Project in Embera Indigenous Peoples Land
By ABColombiaIn Extractives, Land, News Archive, Vulnerable CommunitiesTags Amicus Curiae, Choco, Constitutional Court, Extractives, Indigenous, Mining
The Embera indigenous peoples and the Afro-Colombian community of Jiguamiandó are trying to protect their land, the environment and their cultural and spiritual heritage in a region of Colombia known for its rich bio-diversity, which is currently under threat from a planned mining project. The exploration for the Mande Norte project in the Departments of...
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Constitutional Court opens way for restitution of rights to Las Pavas community
By ABColombiaIn Emblematic Cases, Land, News Archive, Vulnerable CommunitiesTags Constitutional Court, Displacement, Land, Victims
The successive governments’ decision to expand monoculture for the production of biofuels is one of the drivers behind the development plan. – Christian Aid La Hacienda de Las Pavas One month after the farming community of Las Pavas returned home, having lost patience with the legal process, Colombia’s Constitutional Court ordered that their rights to...
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Cocomopoca: Their Right to Land in Colombia
By ABColombiaIn Emblematic Cases, Land, News Archive, Vulnerable CommunitiesTags Afro-Colombian, Campesinos, European Parliament, Ireland, Land, Scotland, UK Parliament, Victims
In June 2011: Leaders from communities torn apart by Colombia’s internal armed conflict brought their stories to the UK and Ireland at the start of June and told our Governments what they can do to help. ABColombia welcomed community leaders Melida Esther Guevara, from the Afro-Colombian community of Cocomopoca and Jesus Alberto Castilla Salazar,...
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Further analysis of the Victims Law 1448 of 2011
By ABColombiaIn Briefings, Land, News Archive, Vulnerable CommunitiesTags conflict, Displacement, Land, Victims
ABColombia recently published a briefing ahead of Congressional approval of the Colombia’s new Victims Law. Providing an analysis of the proposed Bill Returning Land to Colombia’s Victims looked at some of the underlying causes of the land theft and loss, which has led to mass forced displacement. Although estimates vary, the scale of the land crisis is...