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Se Reabre Litigio Estado-Comunidad U’wa Vía Libre a la Búsqueda de Petróleo en Territorio U’wa
July 16, 2006 | El Espectador
Siempre y cuando se cumpla con los estudios, planes, licencias y permisos ambientales previstos en la ley, la Sala de Consulta y Servicio Civil del Consejo de Estado le dio vía libre al Gobierno para poner en marcha el proyecto petrolero que, con pública oposición de varias organizaciones indígenas, se ha pretendido impulsar desde hace 14 años en el territorio del resguardo U’wa, entre los departamentos de Arauca, Bo [...]More »
57 NGO's from 12 Different Countries Express Their Concern with ECOPETROL's plans to Initiate Seismic Testing and Oil Exploration on U'wa Traditional Land
May 10, 2006 | Press Release
Honorable Alvaro UribePresident of the Republic of Colombia AND Mr. [...]More »
IACHR Expresses Its Concern For The Situation Of Human Rights In Colombia
May 2, 2006 | Press Release
Nº 16/06 IACHR expresses Concern about the Human Rights Situation in Colombia. Washington D.C. [...]More »
The Current Status of the American Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
March 25, 2006 | Campaign Update
The OAS Permanent Council Working Group to Prepare the Draft American Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples will be holding another round of meetings of negotiation in the quest for points of consensus. The last meeting, the Seventh in the series, took place in Brasilia, Brazil between March 21 - 25, 2006. [...]More »
Amazon Watch and the U'wa Defense Project Call on the Colombian Government and ECOPETROL to Abandon their Plans to Drill for Oil on U'wa Land
March 19, 2006 | Press Release
March 19, 2006 Honorable Alvaro UribePresident of the Republic of Colombia AND Mr. [...]More »
U’WA: A CALL FOR JUSTICE, A CALL FOR SUPPORT
December 23, 2005 | Campaign Update
“The U'wa people, by the power we have held for thousands of years, feel ourselves compelled to call out to the world. Understand that the strength of our power is with our words. We, the U'wa, are nonviolent people. Our power is our instinctive respect and spiritual consciousness. [...]More »
Advancing the Human Rights of Indigenous Peoples: A Critical Challenge for the International Community
April 13, 2005 | Report
Advancing the Human Rights of Indigenous Peoples:A Critical Challenge for the International Community Voices from a forum at the 61st Session of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights April 13, 2005 Presented by Amnesty International, la Fédération Internationale des Ligues des Droits de l’Homme (FIDH), the Netherlands Centre for Indigenous Peoples (NCIV), Friends World Committee for [...]More »
Report of the UN Special Rapporteur on Indigenous People, Mr. Rodolfo Stavenhagen visit to Colombia in March 2004
November 10, 2004 | Report
This report covers the official visit to Colombia by the Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms of Indigenous People, Mr. Rodolfo Stavenhagen, which took place between 8 and 17 March 2004. Colombia has made progress in recent years in terms of the constitutional recognition of the rights of indigenous peoples. [...]More »
Oil Discovery Hardly Has Policy's Critics Gushing
August 25, 2004 | The Miami Herald
Bogota - With the nation's proven oil reserves continuing to fall, investment and exploration sagging and sabotage from a 40-year old civil war enduring, the Colombian government and its oil company, Ecopetrol, have beendesperate to ballyhoo any find, small though it may be. "Ecopetrol bet and won," the Ministry of Mines and Energy loudly proclaimed Monday after Ecopetrol said it had found 15 million barrels of [...]More »
U'wa Communique to the National and International Public Opinion
July 2, 2004 | Campaign Update
In the year 2001, the U.S. based multinational oil company Occidental of Colombia, OXY, acknowledged publicly the discouraging results to its much anticipated oil bonanza of Gilbraltar 1, in sacred U'WA territory. Today, the Colombian state oil company ECOPETROL continues the work that OXY started. [...]More »
