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1. The Criminalization of Indigenous Protest

   08/04/2011 - 23:06

   Publishes in la Piedra No 5, In September of 2007, the United Nations adopted the non-binding Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Four high profile countries notably voted against the declaration- namely Canada, the United States, Australia a (...)

2. Colombia and its criminal politics

   08/04/2011 - 23:02

   Published in la Piedra No 5, In Colombia, the criminalization of social and popular sectors that oppose the current regime is a national disgrace. Since the 60s, every successive government has used the judiciary arm as a powerful tool to punish dissident (...)

3. Militarized mining tramples ancestral rights of indigenous and Afro-Colombian communities in the Chocó

   12/01/2011 - 12:32

   ://www.censat.org/noticias/2009/2/6/La-Muriel-Mining-Coporation-atropella-y-desconoce-las-autoridades-indigenas-en (...)

4. Profiting From Repression: Canadian Investment in and Trade with Colombia

   08/07/2011 - 15:36

   Americas Update- Available online here: http://www.asadismi.ws/colombiareport.html PREFACE Neo-liberal globalization in the l990s has posed enormous challenges to workers world wide. The first challenge involves the identification of a progressive and cri (...)

5. Big gold mining interests are destroying Marmato

   10/19/2011 - 10:56

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6. “Green washed” palm increases threats to food sovereignty and human rights

   12/01/2011 - 12:36

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7. Indigenous Minga

   09/14/2011 - 12:12

   After facing the police's bullets, and suffering one death and 122 serious injuries, the Minga of Social and Communitarian Resistance finally gets President Uribe to agree to a public debate in La Maria Indigenous Reserve, Piendamo, Cauca department, (...)

8. Oil Palms, Right Abuses Hand in Hand in Northwest

   07/31/2011 - 19:54

   Español http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=43813 BOGOTA,, Sep 5 (IPS)- As of this week, there is one less human rights defender in the northwestern Colombian region of Bajo Atrato. Jimmy Jansasoy of the Inter-Church Justice and Peace Commission was fo (...)

9. Oil palm grows by the force of violence

   12/01/2011 - 12:56

   http://www.cbc.collectifs.net/doc/informe_en_v3-1.pdf; “Colombia: agrocombustibles destruyen comunidades y biodiversidad”, Salva la Selva, (...)

10. People's Permanent Tribunal Colombia Session:Transnational corporations and crimes against humanity

    07/31/2011 - 20:14

    Français Background of Peoples' Tribunal: The Permanent Peoples' Tribunal is an international independent tribunal that examines and judges complaints regarding violations of human rights that have been submitted by the victims. The Tribunal was (...)

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