By Prensa Cajar | 6 April 2022 As human rights organisations that support communities affected by mining in La Guajra, Cajar, Cinep and Censat, we publicly condemn the practice of forced evictions being carried out by government bodies in the department’s...
PUBLIC COMUNIQUE Leaders of the communities resettled by the Cerrejón company in the Municipality of Barrancas in the south of the Department of La Guajira, including the Patilla Community Action Board, Elected Community Action Board of Casitas, Association of People...
(En Español debajo) Take action: Call for the water of the Bruno Stream to be returned to its natural course! The Cerrejon Coal mine is the biggest opencast coal mine in Latin America and is owned by three huge multinational mining companies trading on the London...
The Comic book The Magic of Responsibility is the result of joint work between communities affected by the Cerrejón coal mine and various international solidarity groups, who participated in July 2019 in the regional public hearing “Diversion of the Bruno stream and...
Chancleta is an Afro-descendant community in La Guajira, Colombia. Cerrejón forcibly resettled Chancleta, and its neighboring community, Patilla in 2013. Before the mine became an unwelcome neighbor, the communities enjoyed access to ample land for farming, raising...
