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Interpol hunts Israeli death squad trainers |
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The Guardian, Thursday April 5, 2007 Interpol has issued an international arrest warrant for three Israelis accused of training private armies of Colombian drug cartels and rightwing death squads.
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Urgent Action: Assassinations In BP Production Zone, Casanare, Colombia |
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Colombia, 7 March 2007. ENGLISH/ESPAÑOL
The Solidarity Committee with Political Prisoners FCSPP and the Social
Corporation for Community Advice and Capacitatión COS-PACC, call the
attention of national and international public opinion to the following |
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Manchester students ban Coke in human rights protest |
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By Martin Hickman, Consumer Affairs Correspondent, Published: 10 March 2007
Students at Manchester University have banned Coca-Cola in protest at the American company's alleged abuses of human rights and the environment.
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Visit to Britain by representatives of Colombian communities displaced by British-owned coal mines |
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Home truths: bringing the Cerrejon struggle to Britain |
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Urgent Action: DEATH THREATS AGAINST SINALTRAINAL |
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10 February 2007 - Bucaramanga, Colombia (ENGLISH/ ESPAÑOL) "[If there is] no response we declare them military targets of the Black Eagles as they prefer – death, torture, cut into pieces, coup de grace – in Magdalena Medio style – this defines you as terrorists of the guerrillas – no more noisy fuss – remember our commander Mancuso does not like noise.“
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Don't take a coke this christmas: take a photo! |
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Many of you may have met Euripides Yance, last year when he toured the UK.
In response to the latest and very serious threats against his life and
those of other activists in Barranquila a few of us from Bristol Colombia
Solidarity Campaign and supportive friends have just set up:
http://www.fotocola.net/
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Super-Urgent Action: SOCIAL LEADERS, STUDENTS, TRADE UNIONISTS AND HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS THREATENED |
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On 14 December 2006, in the city of Barranquilla, a communiqué was left at
the residence of Euripides Yance, a Coca-Cola worker and member of the
National Committee of SINALTRAINAL. The communiqué is entitled BLACK EAGLES
[AGUILAS NEGRAS] and threatens various student, social and trade union
leaders, giving them a week to leave the city. Amongst them are members and
leaders of SINALTRAINAL and workers at Coca-Cola EURIPIDES YANCE, LIMBERTO
CARRANZA, and CAMPO QUINTERO. |
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Urgent Action: Freedom for Fredy Muñoz, correspondent in Colombia for CANAL TELESUR |
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On the evening of November 19, 2006, the journalist FREDY MUÑOZ ALTAMIRANDA,
correspondent in Colombia for Canal TELESUR, was detained by agents from the
Administrative Department of Security (DAS), when he returned to Colombia
after having participated in a TELESUR audiovisual narrative workshop that
took place in the neighboring country of Venezuela. By order of the Fifth
District Attorney’s Office in Barranquilla, FREDY was detained and charged
with rebellion. |
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Open Letter: FOR THE RIGHTS TO LIFE, FREE EXPRESSION and ASSOCIATION! |
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Open Letter to the Colombian Embassy in London (handed in on the 16th of November 2006).
We are writing to express our urgent concern regarding the grave
deterioration of the human rights situation in Colombia and the precarious
situation of the social movement. Taking into account detailed and confirmed
reports of the escalating threats to life, we demand that President ALVARO
URIBE VELEZ and Vice-president FRANCISCO SANTOS explain the reasons for the
persecution of political opposition leaders, trade unionists, students and
defenders of human rights.
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Urgent Action: Another University of Valle Student is Killed |
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Santiago de Cali, Colombia, 5 October 2006 (ENGLISH/ESPAÑOL)
The Colombia Solidarity Campaign is very sad to have to report the murder of another student at the University of Valle - Julian Andres Hurtado Castillo.
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Urgent Action: Mass detentions planned of prominent leaders in Valle de Cauca |
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Colombia, 2 October 2006 (ENGLISH/ESPAÑOL)
We, the organisations signing below denounce to the nacional and
internacional community the new harassment, persecution and attempt to
silence and intimidate defenders of the fundamental rights of the most
vulnerable sectors in the social and armed conflict in Colombia, and
particularly in the country’s south west.
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Urgent Action: Assassination, Death Threat and Police Raid Against SINALTRAINAL |
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A series of attacks against the very existence of SINALTRAINAL have occurred in different regions of Colombia; ranging from a raid on the union’s national headquarters in Bogotá, to the assassination of one of our activists. |
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