In the department of Meta, mostly around the town of Puerto Gaitan, there are some 12,500 subcontracted workers labouring in terrible conditions for companies such as Pacific Rubiales, Ecopetrol, Secolsa. The working conditions are so poor that they violate both ILO conventions and Colombian national law. During July workers began a series of protests to achieve improvements in their work conditions.
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Alliance for Global Justice: The National Encounter for the Land and for Peace has been a success in bringing together so many sectors of Colombian society to talk about peace and a political solution to the conflict. Do you believe that this Encounter will significantly push forward the demands for a political solution by the popular movement in Colombia?
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PBI interviews the president of the Political Prisoner Solidarity Committee Foundation about the prison situation in Colombia.
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PBI interviews Father Alberto Franco of the Inter-Church Justice and Peace Commission about an indigenous Nonam community displaced from its land.
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The Nonam community calls on Buenaventura District Government to comply with its engagements taken for their return to their territory, the security and dignity of the indigenous people. PUBLIC STATEMENT We, members of the NONAM Indigenous Community, of the Humanitarian and Biodiverse Reserve of Santa Rosa del Guayacán, forcefully displaced 13 months ago to the city of Buenaventura by a 2010 paramilitary incursion suffered in our territory of the Rio San Juan and Bajo Calima, make an emergency call in view of the critical situation into which the failure of District Government of Buenaventur
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Amnesty International today urged governments in the Americas to stop prioritizing development projects at the expense of Indigenous Peoples' rights. The call came ahead of the International Day of the World's Indigenous People on 9 August.
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Project Accompaniment and Solidarity Colombia : Who We Are and What We Do Table of Contents PASC ... 3 Our action methods ... 3 Colombia's Dirty War ... 4 Direct Solidarity ... 5 RedHer ... 6 Forced Displacement and Stolen Land ... 7 Jiguamiando and Curvarado ... 8 Catatumbo - the Land of Thunder ... 9 Political Prisoners ... 11 Invite PASC ... 13 For More Information ... 14
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SINTRAPETROPUTUMAYO the Putumayo oil workers’ union has reported that on July 22nd Yesid Calvache, the union’s President, was the target of an assassination attempt. At 5.00am, unknown assailants tried to hurl a firebomb into his house in Villagarzon, Putumayo department. Fortunately the device did not manage to set fire to the building and Mr Calvache and his family escaped injury.
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