OECD asked to investigate human rights abuses filed against the owners of Cerrejón coal mine; BHP, Anglo American and Glencore. Parallel complaints also filed in Ireland against state owned-company for purchasing coal and Dublin-based sales wing of mining enterprise. Multiple National Contact Points (NCPs) of the Organisation for Economic […]
Politics
Sandra Beltrán: disappearance, impunity and revictimisation
There have been eight governments since the taking and retaking of the Palace of Justice in Colombia. All possible doors to justice have been tried but the perpetrators are still at large. And yet, the stigmatisation continues, and the families remain in a permanent state of internal mourning.
Alliances of the right to stop the far-right
The events of extreme violence that plague Colombia and the mass citizen protests against police brutality are further proof of the rot affecting the country. Juan Diego García In the midst of it, there has appeared, from the very heart of the system, the proposal to put an […]
Assange against the avenging furies
Assange is wanted dead. The United Nations, through Nils Melzer, a specialist in torture and ill-treatment, has declared that Assange’s life is at risk. The dilemma offered to him by the Power is not acquittal or conviction; freedom or captivity; the United States or England. It is one of three forms of death: death penalty, forced suicide or burial alive.
Forced disappearance in Colombia: with hands tied
In Colombia 80,000 people have disappeared, although the true figures may be much higher. The majority of these disappearances have been perpetrated by the State, paramilitaries and guerillas. Their victims: social leaders, indigenous people, political opponents, peasants and just ordinary people.
















