Yearly Archives: 2019

Calgary-based Parex Resources Inc. seeks to frack in Colombia amid human rights concerns

Colombian human rights defenders from CREDHOS and CCALCP raise concerns about fracking at a public forum in Vancouver on November 6. Fracking pilot projects...

Full approval of fracking could result in extraction of 7 billion barrels of crude in Colombia

On October 31, Petroleum World reported, “Ecopetrol signaled it is prepared to spend big bucks on developing Colombia's unconventional oil and gas reserves, reputed...

Vancouver-based Eco Oro sues Colombia for $764 million through the Canada-Colombia Free Trade Agreement

In 1994, Vancouver-based Eco Oro Minerals Corporation (then called Greystar Resources) acquired mining rights in the Santurbán Páramo and began carrying out exploration related...

Human rights concerns and the Canada-Colombia Free Trade Agreement

Colombian human rights defenders from CCALCP and CREDHOS met with Global Affairs Canada officials on November 4-5 in Ottawa and posed questions about the...

Canadian owned dam on the Sogamoso River in Colombia impacts human rights

When Colombian human rights defenders from the Luis Carlos Perez Lawyers’ Collective (CCALCP) and the Regional Corporation for the Defence of Human Rights (CREDHOS)...

Isabel Zuleta of Rios Vivos to speak in Ottawa, Toronto

Peace Brigades International-Canada is pleased to be a co-sponsor of a speaking tour in Canada by Isabel Cristina Zuleta of the Rios Vivos movement...

Peace Brigades International brings human rights defenders to the European Parliament

Emilie DeWolf (Consorcio Oaxaca-Mexico), Telma Perez (TZ’KAT-Guatemala) and Kerstin Reemtsma (Peace Brigades International-Guatemala) at the European Parliament in Brussels. Twitter photo by The Left...

Photo-journal of 8-day solidarity tour by Colombian human rights defenders from CCALCP and CREDHOS to Canada

Colombian human rights defenders Julia Figueroa and Andrea Nocove from the Luis Carlos Perez Lawyers’ Collective (CCALCP) and Ivan Madero from the Regional Corporation...
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