Right now I feel worse than a trampled cockroach. I have never seen so many armed forces defending the individual interests of a multinational company and bypassing the collective interests of the farmers. (Jose Antonio Saldarriaga, leader of Valparaíso) Between 4 May and 30 June 2015, around 100 local farmers (campesinos) held peaceful protests in...
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Alexander Lopez – humanitarian crisis in Buenaventura
In June 2015, Colombian congressman Alexander Lopez visited the Catalan and UK Parliaments to draw attention to the humanitarian crisis in Buenaventura. He addressed the interrelationship between foreign investment and human rights violations in one of the most violent cities in the world. Colombian Senator Alexander Lopez (middle) with UK Parliamentarians and representatives of NGOs...
Conflict Minerals: ABColombia signs open letter to Parliament
The European Union is the world’s largest economy, the world’s largest trading block, and home to 500 million consumers. Every year, millions of euro worth of minerals flow into the EU from some of the poorest places on earth. No questions are asked about how they are extracted, or whether their trade fuels conflict in...
THE UK-COLOMBIA BILATERAL INVESTMENT TREATY
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...