Full Coverage: Colombia

27.10.2009 The world's biggest mining company, Billiton, is accused of human rights abuses and environmental destruction in a report launched today.
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17.03.2009 About 2,000 indigenous Embera people have been displaced this month from their collective territories along Colombia's Baudó River as a result of threats and conflict between two illegal armed groups, according to the UN refugee agency.

24.01.2009 Meetings in London on African and Asian are common, but Latin America gets less of a look-in. Here's one that bucks the trend - a discussion on British connections with Colombian violence.

20.11.2008 A total of 91 trade unionists were murdered for defending workers' rights last year, with Colombia and Guinea the worst offenders.

17.10.2008 President Álvaro Uribe's administration is jeopardising efforts to secure justice for crimes committed by paramilitaries and their accomplices in Colombia, according to an international rights group.

27.08.2008 Growing global demand for oil and gas is leading to an unprecedented level of exploration and development in the western Amazon, according to a study.

19.06.2008 A "surprising and shocking" increase in coca cultivation is reported in Colombia by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime.

14.04.2008 SAN FRANCISCO, Apr 14 (OneWorld) - Long-time critics of corporate-friendly free trade agreements are applauding House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) for effectively putting the brakes on a deal with the South American nation of Colombia.

10.04.2008 "Show your support of trade agreements that assure job security and decent livelihoods, and take a stand against the NAFTA model that displaces millions from their homes and jobs and furthers environmental destruction," urges a group advocating fairer globalization.

04.04.2008 The proposed U.S. free trade agreement with Colombia will have a number of negative repercussions for the South American nation, such as worsening rural poverty, fueling armed conflict and drug trafficking, and exacerbating climate change, says Yifat Susskind.

07.03.2008 BOGOTA, Mar 7 (OneWorld) - Amid the escalating diplomatic crisis with Venezuela, Ecuador, and now Nicaragua, tens of thousands of Colombians marched yesterday in solidarity with the victims of their country's violent conflict. They were joined by demonstrators in capital cities across the continent, as well as Paris and New York.

06.03.2008 As diplomatic and military tensions between Colombia, Ecuador, and Venezuela rise, Forrest Hylton delves into the complex relationships between Colombian President Uribe and his political allies, the right-wing paramilitaries, Chávez, and the FARC.

05.03.2008 BOGOTA, Mar 5 (OneWorld) - People who earn their living by sorting through and reselling municipal waste have reasserted their role as garbage recyclers and productive members of the global economy at an unprecedented event here this week.

06.02.2008 BOGOTA, Feb 5 (OneWorld) - An estimated 2 million Colombians marched here Monday in a show of opposition to the FARC guerrillas. Worldwide, solidarity protests organized through the Facebook online platform spanned 193 cities in Latin America, North America, Europe, and Asia.

03.02.2008 Colombian social movements warn that demonstrations planned for 4 February will polarise the country, prolong the civil war and end hopes that the conflict will be humanised.

23.01.2008 Approximately 2,000 Colombians, including members of indigenous groups, fled their villages over the past two weeks as militias are intensifying their armed campaigns in the rural areas, writes the UN.

10.01.2008 Are think-tanks staffed by scientists a luxury that only rich nations can afford? Ehsan Masood meets the founders of four institutes that set out to help developing countries to think for themselves.
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23.10.2007 A Colombian small-scale farmer was driven off his land by paramilitaries; when he took refuge his terrain was appropriated by companies growing oil palms, used to produce biofuels. His story has been repeated countless times throughout the palm-growing regions of the country.

22.10.2007 WASHINGTON, Oct 22 (OneWorld) - A Colombian senator pushing for justice and peace has been honored in the United States for his human rights activism, accepting a prestigious award alongside co-honorees from the United States challenging the war in Iraq and Washington, DC's "taxation without representation."

24.09.2007 BOGOTA, Sep 23 (OneWorld) - An environmental gold-mining initiative is set to double its production this year in an attempt to keep up with increasing national and global demand.