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 The London Mining Network (LMN) is an alliance of human rights, development and environmental groups.
We pledge to expose the role of companies, funders and government in the promotion of unacceptable mining projects.
Read the latest posts on Colombia from LMN below:
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Urgent Actions Urgent actions announced through the campaign
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Last October, Wayuu Indigenous leader Karmen Ramirez Boscan was in
London as a guest of the Colombia Solidarity Campaign. She came to
Britain for the AGM of mining multinational BHP Billiton, which is one
of the three multinational owners of the Cerrejon coal mine (the other
two are Anglo American and Xstrata. All three are listed on the London
Stock Exchange. The largest shareholder in Xstrata is the private Swiss
company Glencore.) Since returning to Colombia, Karmen and her
colleagues have suffered threats from paramilitaries for their
organisational work and their criticisms of the Cerrejon mine's
operations. Karmen's organisation, Fuerza de Mujeres Wayuu, has issued
the following Urgent Action.
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Forwarded from Washington Office on Latin America December 6, 2009
Dear Activists,
AFRODES USA and WOLA urge you to contact Colombian authorities
immediately and urge them to take action to guarantee the safety of
Afro-Colombian, Indigenous and human rights leaders in northern Cauca.
On December 4, Lisifrey Ararat of the Community Council of La Toma and
the Black Communities Process (PCN) received a text message that
stated:" Hp no decidan por la comunidad que si quieren los recursos,
tienen 8 dias pasalir sigue la lista *** fin **. This translates into
English as "Motherfucker don't decide for the community what they want.
You have eight days to leave the area. The list remains active."
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We denounce before the national and international community that on 24
November 2009 our comrade Luis Javier Correa Suárez received a call on
a mobile phone assigned to him by the protection programme of the
Ministry of the Interior and justice, the call came for the mobile
number 312-8160930 and a man who identified himself as Arnold Jiménez
told Javier Correa “you have until the 22nd to renounce, and there
won’t be another phone call”, when he asked why the man replied “you
know why, don’t play games, you know what I mean” and hanged up the
phone.
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The organizations
listed below urgently contact inter-governmental human rights organizations,
international organizations and the general public in order to inform about the
security situation of the human rights lawyer JORGE ELIECER MOLANO RODRIGUEZ,
who during the last few days has experienced increased persecution, including
the harassment of his family.
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THE GENOCIDE OF INDIGENOUS
COMMUNITIES CONTINUES:
CERRO TIJERAS INDIGENOUS RESERVE
(SUAREZ MUNICIPALITY,
CAUCA DEPARTMENT) AND HONDURAS
INDIGENOUS RESERVE (MORALES
MUNICIPALITY) TARGET OF
CRIMES
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Paramilitaries
threaten social organisations in southwest Colombia again.
Aida Quilcué amongst those declared as military objective by
paramilitaries
Paramilitaries have again threatened social
organisations across the southwest region of Colombia, as paramilitary violence
and threats continue to intensify in the Andean country. Indigenous leader Aida
Quilcué was amongst those threatened, a month after she returned from a trip to
the UK at the invite of Unison Northern and the Northern TUC, in conjunction
with the Colombia Solidarity Campaign.
The threat is signed by the ‘Grupo Armado Los Ratrojos
– Comandos Urbanos’, a new generation paramilitary militia based in
Nariño department, and dated November 2009. It names Aida and several other
social organisations and individuals which operate in the South West region of Colombia.
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URGENT ACTION!
From the human rights team of the Process of Black Communities and other organisations:
6th August is the date fixed for the eviction of the black community
in La Toma, in the Suárez municipality in north Cauca, Colombia. La
Toma´s Afro-descendant inhabitants have been declared ´squatters in bad
faith´ in a legal possession order taken out by Raúl Fernando Ruiz
Ordoñez and Jesús Sarria. Yet the presence of black communities on
these lands dates from 1636, since when they have worked small gold
mines which is today the only means of subsistence for hundreds of
families.
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Defend
Happiness like a trench
Defend
her from the scandal and the routine
of
misery and those who are miserable
from
the transitory absences
and
the sure things.
Mario
Benedett
CONTINUING
PERSECUTION AGAINST THE MINGA OF SOCIAL AND COMMUNITY RESISTANCE
Santiago
de Cali, 17 May 2009.
Amidst
the pain and indignation of the criminal action against the
indigenous movement of Cauca, the organizations which have signed
below, express our condemnation of the assassination of ROBERT
DE JESÚS GUACHETA
the indigenous vice governor of Honduras Council located in the
Municipality of Morales, Cauca. We send all our strength and
solidarity to his family at this hard time.
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Cauca, el 11 de mayo 2009
LA
GUERRA, UNA ESTRATEGIA PARA EL DESPOJO DE LOS TERRITORIOS ANCESTRALES
INDÍGENAS
La Consejería mayor
CRIC denuncia ante la comunidad nacional e internacional el atentado
de que fue víctima la niña Mayerli Alejandra Legarda
Quilcue, de 12 años de edad, hija de Aída Quilcue,
vocera de la Minga de Resistencia Social y Comunitaria y Edwin
Legarda, quien fuera asesinado el 16 de diciembre por la Fuerza
Pública en el municipio de Totoró, departamento del
Cauca.
El atentado que sufrió la niña Mayerli
Legarda Quilcue, quien tiene medidas de protección, fue
perpetrado por 4 individuos, siendo aproximadamente las 6:00 de la
tarde del día 11 de mayo, los cuales apuntaron con armas
cortas hacia ella que se encontraba al frente de su casa de
habitación, situada en la Vereda Clarete del municipio de
Popayán, Cauca.
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