Dear comrades, We wish to extend greetings to your forum. We also send our solidarity in your efforts to have Liliany released immediately. Her work with The National Federation of Agricultural Farming Unions, part of which was a tour of speaking engagements in Australia, was obviously too effective in explaining the human rights crisis in Colombia. Her imprisonment is a travesty of justice, without even a trial! Continue reading »
Thursday 6th of August, 6:00pm @ Melbourne University Student Union, Members′ lounge (Ground Floor, enter via Tin Alley, Parkville). Entry by donation
With the participation of a Colombian Academic & member of Peace & Justice for Colombia Plus footage & video. Continue reading »
In June 2009, a delegation of 5 parlamentarians from Uribe´s government in Colombia visited Australia. This was a follow up from the visit in March this year of the Colombian Trade Minister. While this delegation attended a session in the Parliament, Senator Doug Cameron (ALP- NSW) gave a speech in which he refers to the trade and human rights in Colombia. Download full document.
The Colombian health workers trade union ANTHOC yesterday announced that one of their regional leaders in the central region of Bolivar has been assassinated. Vilma Carcamo Blanco was killed at around midday on Saturday when men on motorcycles pulled alongside her car and shot her repeatedly as she was driving in the town of Magangue. She was the 19th trade unionist killed so far this year in Colombia and, as in the other cases, her killers have not been brought to justice. Continue reading »
by Garry Leech, from Colombia Journal
PUBLIC STATEMENT Bogota D.C. Colombia, 27th August 2008
FACTS On 16 July 2008 at 10:30 AM when Mr. Arilio, FENSUAGRO’s attorney was leaving his home at Diela suburb, of Armenia City, Quíndio. He noticed that from a parked blue Rodeo Ute with tinted windows and plate number BIB-815 that a man and a woman were filming Arilio’s residence. They remain parked for a few minutes before leaving. Continue reading »
NATIONAL UNITARIAN FEDERATION OF AGRARIAN UNIONS- FENSUAGRO The 17th of April is the day of resistance and courage of the peasantry and rural workers of the world. This day has been declared the international day of struggle of the peasantry and rural workers in commemoration of 19 heroic peasants of the Landless Rural Workers Movement of Brazil, killed in the Locality of El Dorado dos Carajas, in the state of Piara. The National Unitarian Federation of Agrarian Unions,”FENSUAGRO”, faithful to its principles and defence of the peasantry and rural workers, has launched an initiative for the strengthening of Peasants’ Participation in the Construction of a Program of Peace, Socio-Economic and Environmental Development of the Colombian country-side. Continue reading » |
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Aidee Moreno Ibagué recently learned that the Colombian government is investigating her for the crime of rebellion. But Moreno Ibagué has not taken up arms against the state. She does not plant bombs in Colombia’s cities. Nor does she carry an AK-47 assault rifle in the jungles of rural Colombia where leftist guerrillas have been fighting to overthrow the government for more than four decades. She is a lawyer who lives in the capital Bogotá. More specifically, she is a human rights lawyer for the country’s largest peasant union federation Fensuagro (The National Federation of Agricultural Farming Unions). She is also an outspoken critic of the government’s security and economic policies and the dirty war it is waging against those who struggle for social justice. According to Moreno Ibagué, it is her work and her political views that have made her a target of the state. “I will not be silent when there are so many atrocities,” she declares emphatically. “They have not been able to assassinate me, so now they want to put me in prison.” 
The National Unitarian Federation of Agrarian Unions, FENSUAGRO – CUT (Colombia), denounces the siege and continued harassment against Alirio Garcia, FENSUAGRO’s attorney.
