Twenty-three years after the violent displacement from Tabaco, there is no collective relocation nor collective and individual reparations for members of the Tabaco community. The displacement of the African-descent community of Tabaco in La Guajira, Colombia,...
By Diana Salazar, Emma Banks, Richard Solly and Seb Ordonez With immense sadness we learnt of the premature death, on Saturday 27 April 2024, of our beloved friend and colleague Samuel Arregoces, from the community of Tabaco in La Guajira, Colombia. Samuel was buried...
Photo: Richard Murphy By Richard Solly, Co-ordinator, London Mining Network, based on notes of the AGM made by Stephan Suhner, Arbeitsgruppe Schweiz Kolumbien (Switzerland-Colombia Working Group). An on-demand webcast of the AGM can be found here along with the Notice...
Our friends at the Yukpa Solidarity Network have organised a demonstration outside the London offices of Glencore, the Anglo-Swiss mining giant that owns the Cerrejon coal mine in La Guajira, Colombia. Glencore’s operations in the region have seriously harmed...
Colombian courts must not be undermined by shadowy international tribunals, say campaigners September 13, 2022 A group of international organizations are appealing to the highest court in Colombia over ongoing concerns of human rights violations at one of the largest...
