Octuber/2010: Civis Human Rights and Peace Newsletter
Special Issue Buenaventura and Human Rights Threats
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"I am really not sure how we survive"
4 de octubre de 2010, deVIDEOCONFERENCE – "Living in Buenaventura and the Bajo Calima region is really not easy. But right now, we don´t know what else to do. All the government authorities behave as if nothing has happened." Approximately 70 people listen carefully to Enrique's and Geraldine's descriptions—two speakers at a Civis videoconference held across three Colombian cities on 30th September, 2010. Youths, adults, students, peasants and indigenous people met in Medellin, Bogota and Cali to learn about the complex territorial and geo-strategic conflict suffered by Afro-Colombian and indigenous communities of the Pacific coast's Valle de Cauca department. LEER MÁS... -
Life is land and life is impossible without land
3 de octubre de 2010, deFACT SHEET BUENAVENTURA – What is Buenaventura like? How many people live there? Why does Colombia's biggest port have the highest concentration of socio-political violence? Why does forced recruitment of minors by paramilitary groups exist? How many megaprojects are present in Buenaventura? Find the answers to these questions in our short research paper, compiled by the Afro-Colombian Youth Foundation Rostros y Huellas – Garifuna which is located in Buenaventura. LEER MÁS... -
Death threats, isolation and displacements by paramilitaries in Bajo Calima
2 de octubre de 2010, deREPORT - A summary of our history and condemnation regarding paramilitary operations around the border of the collective territory of Bajo Calima, written by the Inter-Ecclesial Commission for Justice and Peace (CIJyP). These reports are presented directly to the Colombian government as evidence of human rights violations. CIJyP denounces the crimes, pressure and death threats that terrorize the Afro-Colombian and indigenous communities on the Pacific coast and have led to forced displacement in the region. LEER MÁS... -
Cocaine War in Colombia
2 de octubre de 2010, deMULTIMEDIA - This is a 10-minute video, with English sub-titles, about the impact of drug trafficking on Afro-Colombians in Buenaventura, Colombia. Sister Ayda Orobio of the Pastoral Afro-Colombiana reveals important information about the situation. The video was sponsored by WOLA (The Washington Office on Latin America). LEER MÁS... -
"Mariela, we will always remember you"
1ro de octubre de 2010, dePHOTOGALLERY - Here are some photos about life and work in the Bajo Calima region. JUBCA (Young People United for the Benefit of Calima) with the Inter-Ecclesial Commission for Justice and Peace (CIJyP)—a Civis partner organization—offer alternative perspectives about the construction of memories, land and juvenile rights in a region beset with conflict. The gallery includes photos of the 2010 commemoration of the death of Mariela Riva, who was assassinated by paramilitaries in 2003 when she was 16 years old. LEER MÁS... -
Colombia: Former paramilitary groups cause displacement of black communities
30 de septiembre de 2010, dePRESS - 14.09.2010. Groups of former paramilitaries cause forced displacement of black community members in western Colombia in order to take their land in order to produce and export cocaine, the spokesman of a national NGO denounced on Wednesday. "Paramilitary groups with masks and weapons have had a presence in the (west) Calima region since the end of late last July. Their criminal activities have provoked the forced displacement of Afro-Colombian people and one indigenous community,” denounced priest Alberto Franco to AFP. LEER MÁS... -
AI: Young people named on colombian "death list"
10 de septiembre de 2010, deURGENT ACTION - Civis shares with you the Urgent Action of Amnesty International (UA: 198/10). Ninety-three (93) young people in a southern Colombian municipality are at risk after their names were published on a paramilitary "death list". Three (3) of those named on the list have been killed since 15 August. LEER MÁS...
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