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ALERT – Attack on COPINH member Rosalina Domínguez

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Brent Patterson
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COPINH has tweeted, “We urgently call for national and international solidarity with Rosalina and the community of Río Blanco.”

As explained on the IM-Defensoras (Mesoamerican Intiative of Women Human Rights Defenders) website:

On Saturday afternoon, September 28, an individual identified as Donato Madrid made an attempt on the life of Rosalina Domínguez when she had asked him to stop rebuking and threatening Río Blanco community members who were working on lands in the area of La Vega del Culatón. These lands had been recovered by the community faced with the plans of the DESA company to usurp them for the hydroelectric project for which Berta Cáceres was assassinated.

According to information provided by COPINH, Donato Madrid grabbed Rosalina by the collar of her shirt and tried to strike her on her throat with a machete with the clear intent to kill her. The defender was able to defend herself and a group of community people expelled the assailant.

Even though the attack had no consequences regarding the physical integrity of Rosalina, it is an alarming escalation of the risk situation that she faces. We of IM-Defensoras and the National Network of Women Human Rights Defenders in Honduras have issued several action alerts over the death threats, harassment and intimidation that she has endured since April 2019, all of which were perpetrated by members of the Madrid family; they never fail to mention Berta Cáceres, with whom Rosalina had a very close relationship.

Even though all of these attacks have been denounced, the responsible authorities have done absolutely nothing about them, thereby reproducing the climate of impunity in which they protect the intellectual authors of our comrade Berta Cáceres.

We of IM-Defensoras and the National Network of Women Human Rights Defenders in Honduras stand in solidarity with Rosalina Domínguez, the Río Blanco community, and COPINH, and we reiterate our deepest concern for the life and security of the defender, which is now in grave danger.

In view of the State’s complicity and failure to act, we hold it responsible for any attempt whatsoever against the life and security of Rosalina, and we send an urgent call to the international community to back the defender, the Rio Blanco community and COPINH.

COPINH is accompanied by the Peace Brigades International-Honduras Project.

PBI-Colombia deadline for new volunteers is October 11!

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Brent Patterson
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New volunteers are currently being sought by the Peace Brigades International-Colombia Project whose placement would begin in July/August 2020.

The deadline to apply is October 11.

Earlier this year, Javier Ignacio Hoyos from Canada joined the PBI-Colombia team.

Javier says, “I applied to PBI Colombia because I value its principles, I believe in its mission and I admire its work over the last decades.”

He adds, “I sincerely believe that by accompanying these people and communities in their day to day work and protecting their spaces for action, I will in a small way be part of the collective construction of a more peaceful, fair and inclusive society.”

All of the information on how to apply can be found here.

Indigenous land defenders at risk on Secwepemc Territory in British Columbia

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Brent Patterson
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Indigenous land defenders are at risk around the world for defending their territories and the environment from destructive extractivist industries.

There are links that can be made between the dynamics that Peace Brigades International observes in Latin America and what is now unfolding here.

The construction of the Trans Mountain tar sands pipeline

A tense situation is unfortunately developing on Secwepemc Territory in British Columbia, Canada that could escalate in the coming months.

The Trans Mountain export pipeline would be 1,150 kilometres in length and transport 890,000 barrels a day of crude oil from Edmonton (Treaty 6 territory in Alberta) to Burnaby (Tsleil-Waututh territory in British Columbia). The Canadian government bought the existing pipeline infrastructure from Texas-based Kinder Morgan in May 2018.

The Financial Post recently reported, “Trans Mountain Corp. has restarted construction on the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion, the company said on [August 21], a year after the contentious project stalled because of regulatory delays.”

And on September 1, the Alaska Highway News further noted, “[The contracting company] Ledcor Sicim haven’t yet been given their ‘Notice to Proceed’ for the stretch from Hargreaves to Blue River.” But that notice to proceed could come soon.

Violence against the land, violence against women

The Peace Brigades International-Guatemala Project accompanies Lorena Cabnal and the TZ’KAT Network of Ancestral Healers of Community Feminism from Ixmulew.

TZ’KAT highlights “that the struggle for the defense of the land against extractivism must be simultaneous and inseparable from the struggle for women in such territories to live a life free from violence and the exploitation of their bodies.”

The Alaska Highway News article notes, “Trans Mountain had planned a 500-person work camp near Valemount to accommodate workers as well as another camp near Blue River.”

Both Valemount and Blue River are located on Secwepemc Territory and this video shows work at the Valemount camp already underway.

This new report by Stand.earth highlights, “The proposed pipeline expansion project would install several temporary work camps through Secwepemc Territories in Interior BC, where Indigenous resistance to the pipeline is particularly strong.”

“The influx of temporary workers for resource development projects have historically seen rates of sexual violence towards women increase dramatically in the communities surrounding the camps. Canada’s history of colonialism and its systematic oppression of Indigenous peoples must be understood and considered when observing the power dynamics between non-local temporary workers and Indigenous women in rural communities.”

Indigenous resistance

Peace Brigades International-Guatemala also accompanies the Peaceful Resistance of La Puya that for years has maintained a peaceful, 24-hour blockade at the entrance to the El Tambor mine given the environmental impacts of the mine, as well as the violent imposition of the project against their will.

On Secwepemc Territory, the Stand.earth report notes, “In this region, the Tiny House Warriors are building 10 tiny houses to be placed strategically along the 518 kilometre pipeline route through Secwepemc Territories.”

Beverly Manuel of the Tiny House Warriors has stated, “We have six tiny houses built and ready to launch. Five are already blockading Trans Mountain’s man camp in Blue River.”

Harassment

Peace Brigades International has noted, “In Colombia, Guatemala, Mexico, Honduras and Nepal women defenders face additional pressure and discrimination because of their gender and because they challenge entrenched discrimination and accepted norms of behaviour. Indigenous women and women from rural areas are among those most at risk.”

Kanahus Manuel of the Tiny House Warriors has tweeted that men from the company are constantly driving by her home. She has also posted on Instagram that, “White supremacist #TransMountain pipeline security harass me and family.”

Criminalization

Peace Brigades International-United Kingdom has written, “In the context of defending human rights, we understand criminalisation to derive from the intent to discredit, sabotage or impede the work of human rights defenders through the misuse of the legal system, and through adverse and cynical manipulation of public discourse.”

Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, the United Nations special rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples, has further stated, “Disregard of indigenous rights of traditional lands ownership breeds tensions, subsequent violence and criminalization, as indigenous peoples become trespassers or illegal occupants of their own lands…”

In July 2018, Kanahus Manuel was arrested by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) after allegedly defying an eviction order from North Thompson Provincial Park by the BC Parks service. Manuel has highlighted that the park is on Secwepemc land and that the RCMP and BC Parks service have no jurisdiction there.

While the construction of the Trans Mountain pipeline still faces legal challenges, regulatory obligations, and ongoing protests, the company building it expects that the pipeline will be in service by 2022.

Peace Brigades International-Canada is following this and is concerned about the risk of violence against these human rights defenders.

As PBI-Canada chair Ed Bianchi has commented, “We have to find a way to find common ground, to see opportunities and everything that arises and to work collectively towards a common goal of a world that is free of colonization and the impacts of colonization, a world where Indigenous sovereignty is recognized and celebrated and where self-determination is not something that people aspire to but something that people live everyday.”

PBI-USA and PBI-Guatemala with the Peaceful Resistance of La Puya in Washington, DC

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Brent Patterson
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On October 2, Peace Brigades International-USA tweeted, “Álvaro Sandoval, of the Peaceful Resistance of La Puya, and Irene Izquieta, advocacy officer for PBI Guatemala and PBI USA pounded the halls of Congress this week to talk about the state of siege, & US company Kappes Cassiday’s violations of rights of people near the mine.”

State of Siege

On September 7, Guatemala’s Congress approved a 30-day state of siege in the provinces of Alta Verapaz, El Progreso, Izabal, Peten, Zacapa and Baja Verapaz.

Reuters has reported, “The 30-day state of siege imposes a night-time curfew [and] gives the military new powers to arrest and interrogate suspects and prohibits organized protests in the targeted areas as well as some meetings, although it does not specify the number of people that can legally meet.”

And Aljazeera notes, “The measure sparked widespread condemnation from human rights and social groups. …Much of the affected region in eastern Guatemala is inhabited by indigenous Maya Q’eqchi’ communities fighting for land rights and against nickel mining and oil palm plantations.”

Iduvina Hernandez, director of the Association for the Study and Promotion of Security in Democracy, says, “The magnitude allows them to militarise or remilitarise a region with a high level of conflict, where communities are opposed to extractive industry projects.”

Kappes, Cassiday & Associates

Residents from the communities of San José del Golfo and San Pedro Ayampuc – an area known as La Puya – have been fighting against the Progreso VII Derivada-El Tambor mine located just north of Guatemala City since March 2010.

That mine is owned by Reno-based Kappes, Cassiday & Associates (KCA).

The Peaceful Resistance of La Puya has stated, “[The environmental impact assessment] shows that the gold and silver are contained in arsenopyrite rock, which contains high levels of arsenic. Levels of arsenic in the water increased considerably during the time the mine was in operation.”

In July 2015, a Guatemalan court ruled in favour of La Puya, ordering EXMINGUA – the Guatemalan subsidiary of KCA – to suspend all activities at the mine until a community consultation was held. Then in February 2016, the Guatemalan Supreme Court ruled to provisionally suspend the mining licence due to a lack of prior consultation.

In December 2018, KCA filed a $300 million claim with the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes, a World Bank arbitration mechanism.

The company cites community protests and unjust treatment by the state as a violation of the terms of the Free Trade Agreement between the Dominican Republic, Central America and the United States.

The El Tambor mine was previously owned by Vancouver-based Radius Gold.

The Network in Solidarity with the People of Guatemala (NISGUA) has highlighted, “Although Radius Gold sold its shares in the local Guatemalan subsidiary Exploraciones Mineras de Guatemala S.A. (EXMINGUA) to KCA in August 2012, it retains an economic interest in the mine.”

NISGUA notes, “The company’s 2013 audited financial statements state that three quarters of the cost of the sale transaction will be paid to Radius once gold shipments commence from the property and that Radius also anticipates quarterly payments from KCA based on gold production.”

PBI-Guatemala began providing accompaniment to the Peaceful Resistance of La Puya in November 2012.

PBI engaged in UN processes on human rights and transnational corporations

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Brent Patterson
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“It has been determined that there are many companies that have the support of the state army, the mining and energy battalions in order to ‘defend’ what they consider theirs to stop communities instigating social protest.” – Rosa Maria Mateus, Lawyers Collective CCAJAR Photo credit: Manu Valcarce

Peace Brigades International has stated that the human rights defenders it accompanies often find themselves threatened, criminalized and at risk because of powerful economic and political interests and a system that favours profit over rights.

Our motto is “making space for peace” and there are several United Nations processes underway to ensure the space for human rights defenders to participate in social protest and advocate for social justice in peace and without risk of harm.

Guiding Principles

One such process is the Working Group on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprises.

The UN has noted, “The Working Group on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprises (also referred to as the Working Group on Business and Human Rights) was established by the Human Rights Council in 2011.”

The resolution that formed this Working Group emphasized that “transnational corporations and other business enterprises have a responsibility to respect human rights.”

At the same time that the Working Group was established, the UN also adopted a set of Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights.

In June 2018, Peace Brigades International-United Kingdom launched a Human Rights Defenders Toolbox that it highlighted includes “a range of legal fact sheets designed to inform and assist human rights defenders in their struggles to uphold the rule of law in the face of corporate aggression.”

The toolkit was initiated with the support of PBI-UK by the José Alvear Restrepo Lawyers’ Collective Corporation (CCAJAR), which has been accompanied by the Peace Brigades International-Colombia Project since 1995.

PBI-UK has explained, “The project seeks to address the fact that, despite the existence of [the Guiding Principles], gaps in their implementation mean that human rights defenders confronting corporate interests still face escalating violence.”

Binding Treaty

In September 2018, the Peace Brigades International-Mexico Project posted, “After 7 years of the Guiding Principles being in force, PBI has not witnessed an improvement in the situation of risk for human rights defenders on the ground.”

It highlights, “On the contrary, there has been a spike in attacks against land, territory and environmental defenders, indicating that the implementation of the Guiding Principles, mainly through voluntary codes of conduct, has not had the desired affect and that further action may be required.”

PBI-Mexico further notes, “PBI believes that a Binding Treaty has the possibility to contribute to greater accountability for companies in relation to human rights abuses and could potentially lead to greater protection of human rights defenders working on business and human rights cases throughout the world.”

That process began in 2014 when the Human Rights Council established “an open-ended intergovernmental working group [OEIGWG] on transnational corporations and other business enterprises with respect to human rights, whose mandate shall be to elaborate an international legally binding instrument to regulate, in international human rights law, the activities of transnational corporations and other business enterprises.”

This coming October 14-18, the fifth session of the OEIGWG will be held in Geneva to discuss this revised draft of a legally binding instrument.

The preamble of that draft emphasizes that “civil society actors, including human rights defenders have an important and legitimate role in promoting the respect of human rights by business enterprises, and in preventing, mitigating and seeking effective remedy for the adverse human rights impacts of business enterprises.”

Significantly, this was a demand made to the UN Human Rights Council by Peace Brigades International-Switzerland in March 2018.

Speaking prior to the fourth session of the OEIGWG, PBI-Switzerland Advocacy Coordinator Kim-Mai Vu stated, “PBI reiterates the importance of the participation of civil society and human rights defenders as crucial to the success of the process.”

That said, Friends of the Earth International has commented that the revised binding treaty draft is shamefully disappointing.

It notes, “The Revised Draft must be much more ambitious so that it will be possible to advance as peoples in the regulation of the transnational corporations. Most importantly, the focus on transnational corporations and their obligations to respect human rights over profits must be brought back into the text.”

UN climate summits

On September 20, 2019, the Peace Brigades International statement on the Global Climate Strike (which took place just prior to the UN climate action summit in New York) highlighted that human rights, land and environment defenders “are at risk due to the powerful economic and political interests that lie behind environmental destruction, whether that be through the imposition of mineral extraction projects, agri-business or other sectors that seek to exploit natural resources for economic gain.”

PBI further noted, “In a system that favours profit over rights, economic models that encourage the forced displacement of those defending their resource-rich territories will continue and those at the forefront will remain at risk of violence.”

Given that current reality, PBI affirms it will continue to accompany and support human rights defenders “who defend their land and territory against the imposition of economic projects that will damage nature and contribute to climate change.”

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Key upcoming dates

October 14-18 — The fifth session of the OEIGWG will be held in Geneva to discuss this revised draft of a legally binding instrument.

November 25-27 — The annual UN forum on the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights in Geneva will “focus on the need for all governments to demonstrate progress, commitments and plans in implementing the State duty to protect and strengthening accountability.”

December 2-13 – The UN COP25 climate summit will take place in Santiago, Chile. At COP24, nongovernmental organizations cautioned that negotiators were removing references to human rights in the rulebook on how to achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement.

PBI-Canada observes the International Day of Non-Violence

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Brent Patterson
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Mahadev Desai, the father of PBI co-founder Narayan Desai, reads a letter to Gandhi in Bombay (now Mumbai), April 7, 1939.

Today, October 2, is the International Day of Non-Violence.

This year, this United Nations recognized day also coincides with the 150th anniversary of the birth of Mahatma Gandhi.

It is notable that the first day of the founding meeting of Peace Brigades International in 1981, in a session chaired by Hans Sinn, began with a reading of Gandhi’s words.

Furthermore, it was Narayan Desai who was the first to suggest ‘Peace Brigades International’ as our name at that meeting. Desai was the son of Gandhi’s personal secretary and biographer Mahadev Desai and was brought up in Gandhi’s ashram.

PBI’s statement today highlights that, “We endeavor is to overcome injustice and violence in order to build peaceful societies where human rights are protected, respected and fulfilled, by ensuring that those who defend human rights are protected.”

And in his message commemorating this day, Secretary-General António Guterres said, “In today’s turbulent times violence takes many forms: from the destructive impact of the climate emergency to the devastation caused by armed conflict; from the indignities of poverty to the injustice of human rights violations to the brutalizing effects of hate speech.”

The UN media release also notes, “The three main categories of non-violent action are protest and persuasion, including marches and vigils; non-cooperation; and non-violent intervention, such as blockades and occupations.”

This year, as we face the challenge of the violence and human rights violations that come with climate breakdown, we are keeping particularly in mind the poignant words of Gandhi, “The future depends on what we do in the present.”

PBI contributes to the ‘Report on the Misuse of Criminal Justice Systems to Retaliate Against Environmental Defenders’

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Brent Patterson
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PBI-Guatemala has accompanied the Peaceful Resistance of La Puya since November 2012.

Peace Brigades International contributed to the Report on the Misuse of Criminal Justice Systems to Retaliate Against Environmental Defenders.

That report was submitted on September 21 in connection with the 173d Period of Sessions of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR).

The Washington, DC-based IACHR is an autonomous body of the Organization of American States (OAS) and has the power to monitor State’s compliance with their obligations regarding Inter-American human rights conventions and protocols.

The principal conclusions of the report are:

1- We are facing a true climate emergency. Never before in the history of humanity has the Earth’s climate system been so threatened. And never before have environmental defenders been under such attack.

2- Because of their work, environmental defenders are targeted by a range of stakeholders who view environmental defenders as obstacles to conducting their business. Powerful corporate actors—with the complicity or acquiescence of States— increasingly use a sophisticated tactic of criminalization to impede environmental protection efforts.

3- The misuse of criminal justice systems to retaliate against environmental defenders threatens their lives and generates a chilling effect that limits the ability of all human rights defenders to defend their communities and protect the environment. It enables polluters to gain leverage over environmental defenders and to avoid unwanted attention, regulation, and environmental enforcement.

4- Criminalization is a particularly pernicious threat to environmental defenders. The use of the criminal process by the States and economic actors provides the appearance of legitimacy, such that an outside observer must know significant details about an investigation and the basis for charges to know whether the law and the process are being manipulated for an improper purpose. Criminalization is difficult to identify and document.

5- The criminalization of environmental defenders meets all of the requirements for persecution for belonging to a group.

One of the four key recommendations of the report to the IACHR includes: “Insist on the connection between environmental protection and the defense of human rights, recognize and publicly support the work of environmental defenders, and raise the visibility of the important work they do.”

The report also includes 53 pages of testimonials about organizations and individuals who have been criminalized including these submitted by Peace Brigades International:

1- The Rural Association of the Cimitarra River Valley (ACVC), Colombia, page 34

2- La Resistencia Pacifíca de la Puya, Guatemala, pages 40-45

3- The Association for the Protection of Las Granadillas Mountain (APMG), Guatemala, page 45

4- People of San Juan Unite, Guatemala, pages 45-46

5- Bernardo Caal Xol, Guatemala, pages 46-48

6- The Organisation of the Indigenous Me’phaa People (OPIM), Mexico, page 57

The report also includes a testimonial about Dr. Yesid Blanco (on pages 28-30) who is supported by CREDHOS, an organization accompanied by PBI-Colombia as well as the Defenders of the Guapinol River (pages 49-50) who are supported by organizations accompanied by PBI-Honduras.

To read the full 78-page report, please click on Report on the Misuse of Criminal Justice Systems to Retaliate Against Environmental Defenders.

PBI-Colombia and NOMADESC meet with human rights allies in Washington, DC

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Brent Patterson
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On October 1, the Peace Brigades International-Colombia Project tweeted, “This afternoon the #WHRD Berenice Celeita from @Nomadesc gathered with Charanya Krishnaswami @amnestyusa in order to share with her their concerns about the security situation in #Buenaventura y Norte del Cauca and the threats they receive as #HRDs Thank you so much!”

That same day, PBI-Colombia also tweeted, “Thanks you to Angelita Baeyens from @RFKHumanRights for the excellent reunion this afternoon with the #WHRD Berenice Celeita from @Nomadesc, accompanied by PBI and to listen to the concerns regarding the Human Rights situation in Valle del Cauca and #Buenaventura.”

On September 13, PBI-Colombia accompanied the Canadian Embassy and other embassies on a visit to Buenaventura that included a meeting with NOMADESC.

Buenaventura has been described as the most violent city in Colombia.

Arnald García Guiñón, the coordinator of an MSF project in Buenaventura, has also commented, “Many of its neighbourhoods have arisen from new waves of displacement, with houses built by displaced people. These neighbourhoods lack a clear urban structure, sufficient sanitation services, water supplies, electricity or roads.”

PBI-Colombia accompanies NOMADESC which has worked to defend human rights in Buenaventura since 1999.

PBI-UK supports Paso del Norte meeting with British parliamentary group on human rights

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Brent Patterson
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On October 3, Peace Brigades International-United Kingdom posted, “Maricela Vazquez, lawyer at the Paso del Norte Human Rights Centre, is currently in the UK as part of a Europe-wide speaking and advocacy tour.”

That Facebook post adds, “Yesterday, she met with the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on human rights, where concerns about the human rights situation in Mexico were shared with parliamentarians.”

The PBI-UK website further notes, “37,000 people are missing or disappeared across Mexico. Some of these 37,000 may be alive, and some make up the 26,000 bodies that lie unidentified in morgues across the country.”

It then highlights, “There is an urgent need to demonstrate political will at all levels of the Mexican State to search for disappeared people, identify remains and return them respectfully to their families so they can have a dignified burial and so their families can begin to process their grief.”

An 11-minute PBI produced video titled “The Search” can be seen here.

The speaking and advocacy tour has also included events in Geneva (September 17), Bern (September 19) and Brussels (September 24).

PBI-Mexico has accompanied the Paso del Norte Human Rights Centre since 2013.

Regulations for fracking in Colombia to be ready this year, fracking to begin in 2020

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Brent Patterson
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Peace Brigades International-Canada and allies are organizing a speaking tour this coming November 2-8 featuring Colombian human rights defenders concerned about the impact of fracking on the environment, human rights and the peace process in their country.

Latest news from Colombia

Late last month, Reuters reported, “Colombia’s state-run oil company Ecopetrol will be ready to start fracking pilot projects in the second half of 2020, chief executive Felipe Bayon said on [September 25], as oil companies await federal regulatory guidelines for the projects.”

Bayon notes in that article, “I think in the second half of next year, we will be ready to start drilling. The ministry is working on the protocols. They’ll take some months, those will come out, and then we can apply for the licenses.”

Reuters has also reported that Ecopetrol plans to spend $500 million over the next three years on these pilot projects starting in the Magdalena Medio region.

Then on October 2, Valora reported, “Regulations for fracking pilots in Colombia will be ready before the end of 2019: ANH.”

That article notes, “The president of the National Hydrocarbons Agency (ANH), Luis Miguel Morelli, said [on October 2] that the government is moving forward in the regulation of fracking pilots that would begin to develop in 2020.”

That article also highlights, “The official said the regulation would include guarantees for investors who place money to develop pilots in the country.”

Impact on Colombians

The United Nations Development Programme has highlighted that, “Colombia is at high risk from climate change impacts.”

The Bogota Post has also reported, “It is Colombia’s campesinos, who have already borne the brunt of a long conflict, who are likely to be hit hardest [by climate change].”

And the Alliance for a Colombia Free of Fracking has stated that fracking activities would be in violation of Colombian constitutional principles that guarantee citizens the right to life, the right to water, and the right to a healthy environment.

Opposition to fracking in Colombia, calls to ban fracking

The Bogota Post has reported that there were Global Climate Strike protests on September 20 in Bogota, Medellín, Cali, Santa Marta, Tolima, and Ibague.

That article also reported, “Friday, September 27 will see more action from Fridays for the Future in Bogotá, this time outside Ecopetrol’s headquarters where activists will take a direct stand against the fossil fuel giant’s leading role in fracking in the country.”

And The Guardian recently reported that a global campaign backed by 450 activist groups and celebrities has called on United Nations Secretary General António Guterres to endorse a global ban because fracking “torpedoes our global efforts to tackle climate change and violates basic human rights”.

Speaking tour in Canada

Julia Figueroa and Andrea Nocove from the Luis Carlos Perez Lawyers’ Collective (CCALCP) and Ivan Madero from the Regional Corporation for the Defence of Human Rights (CREDHOS) will be speaking and attending meetings in Toronto (November 3), Ottawa (November 4-5), Vancouver (November 6-7) and Nanaimo (November 8).

For more on that, please see Colombians to speak in Canada as fracking threatens human rights in their country.

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