2008

• Oil palm plantation workers in Puerto Wilches on strike
• Constitutional decision over Forestry Law awards victory to social organizations

2007

• By law, the forest must disappear
• Is the FSC Seal Applied to Blood-Stained Timber?
• Communities eradicate oil palm plantations to repossess their territory
• Irish-Dutch pulp company accused of serious social and environmental crimes
• The U’wa Indigenous People resist oil exploration

2006

• Carbon sinks deals, territory and communities
• Biodiesel from oil palm
• The Bari people in defense of their territory
• The incredible and sad certification of Smurfit plantations
• Community challenges multinational company Smurfit Carton de Colombia
• The Motilon Bari Indigenous Peoples rise up for their rights against oil interests
• The Forestry (logging) Bill was adopted without discussion
• The slip-ups of the Forestry Bill in Colombia

2005

• Oil palm plantations on usurped communal lands
• A forestry law for the foreign capital business
• Expansion of the oil palm in a framework of Human Rights violation

2004

• The Nukak, the last contacted nomadic people
• The U’wa demand Ecopetrol to retreat immediately from their sacred territory
• Forestry as a business
• An example of a community-managed forest

2003

• The uncertifiable plantations of a member of the FSC Board of Directors
• The impacts of coal mining
• Oil palm plantation project threatens biodiversity in the Choco

2002

• Anti-trade union policy in oil palm plantations
• Actions against expansion of industrial shrimp farming
• Community stops a mining license in forest reserve
• Logging and violence against Afro-Colombian communities in the Chocó

2001

• The hard life of oil palm plantation workers
• Local communities affected by shrimp companies
• Perverse economic incentive for oil palm plantation
• The Colombian Chocó: A megadiverse region in a megadiverse country . . . for how long?
• "Tailor-made" legislation for Smurfit
• The Urrá Dam and the death of the Sinú River

2000

• Even historical documents confirm the U'wa's territorial rights
• Project in Colombia seeks support
• Illegal crops in Colombia: when the solution is worse than the problem
• International Mission and good news about the U'wa
• The U'wa and Embera join forces
• Action for the U'wa people in Colombia
• "The life and dignity of the Embera people won't be flooded"

1999

• The U'wa people do not surrender
• The Embera Katio's struggle for life
• Violence and deforestation in the Choco region
• Save the "catival" forests
• A matter of life or death for the U'wa
• Black communities defend mangroves
• The U'wa achieve significant victory
• U'wa victory at Occidental's shareholder meeting
• Support to the U'wa people in Colombia

1998

• The murder of three environmentalists
• Monoculture tree plantations promoted in the Andes
• U'wa indigenous peoples confront oil companies

1997

• Problems with oil exploration in Colombia

OTHER RELEVANT INFORMATION

• Primera Cumbre Amazónica Pichanaki - Chanchamayo - Junin - February 2008 - Only in Spanish

• Carta a "El Colombiano" - Delegación internacional se solidariza con las comunidades afrodescendientes e indígenas del Curvaradó y Jiguamiandó afectadas por las plantaciones de monocultivos de palma aceitera, Agosto 2007 (Only in Spanish)

• De la Siega de la palma a la Siembra - Bogotá, D.C. August 12th 2007, Comisión Intereclesial de Justicia y Paz (Only in Spanish)

• Cosechando de la memoria - Bogotá, D.C.July 31th 2007, Comisión Intereclesial de Justicia y Paz (Only in Spanish)

• Permanente People's Tribunal Session on Food in Colombia - Bogotá, April 2006

• Permanente People's Tribunal Session on Minning in Colombia - Medellín, November 2006

• Permanente People's Tribunal Session on Biodiversity in Colombia- February 2007

• Acusaciones a empresas transnacionales (Only in Spanish)
  • Compañía Pizano - Maderas del Darién
  • Monsanto
  • Dyncorp
  • Multifruits - Del Monte
  • Empresas palmicultoras

   

• International Verification Mission on the Humanitarian and Human Rights Situation of indigenous Peoples in Colombia - Final Statement - Bogotá, Colombia , September 28, 2006

• Después de cincuenta años de destrucción y atropellos la "Smurfit Kappa - Cartón de Colombia" rinde cuentas al pueblo colombiano y al tribunal permanante de los pueblos - Capítulo Colombia - (Only in Spanish) March 2007

• Queja formal contra la empresa Pizano S.A. (Colombia) certificada con el FSC por SmartWood desde el año 2001 December 2005 (only in spanish)

• ¿Qué ha pasado con los bosques amazónicos colombianos diez años después de la Cumbre de la Tierra?
  por Germán Ignacio Ochoa Zuluaga / Censat - julio 2002 (only in Spanish)

• Colombia. Cumplimiento del Convenio de Diversidad Biológica en Bosques
  por Astrid Puentes / Censat - julio 2002 (only in Spanish)

• Amazonia colombiana: 10 años después de la Cumbre de la Tierra
  Análisis de la situación actual de los bosques amazónicos boliviano, en relación a su conservación, manejo y destrucción, teniendo como marco el cumplimiento o no de los acuerdos de Río.
  WRM - diciembre de 2001 (only in Spanish)

• "Colombian Environmentalist Challenges Multinational Paper Company Jefferson Smurfit Group" por Nestor Ocampo, Fundacion Cosmos

• Report On The Activities Of Jefferson Smurfit Group In Colombia 
  by John Wann, Christine Warner, Gearóid O'Loingsigh, Stephen Coyne; foreword by Patricia McKenna, MEP - May 1999

• Smurfit Cartón Colombia y las plantaciones forestales (only in Spanish)
  por Herney Patiño Ríos

• Drillbits & Tailings special issue on U'wa indigenous peoples, August 2001

• Deforestación y degradación de los bosques en el territorio-región
  de las comunidades negras del Pacífico colombiano
  Hernán Cortes, Eduardo Restrepo

• 2002
  - SOS por los Pueblos Indígenas de Colombia

• 2001
  - Local communities affected by shrimp companies 
  - Colombia: Local communities affected by shrimp companies
  - Apoyo por la desaparicion de dirigente Embera-katío (only in Spanish)
  - Support the Investigation into the Santo Domingo Massacre!
  - Apoyo por la desaparicion de dirigente Embera-katío (only in Spanish)
  - International Rivers Network:  Demand that Colombian Activist Kimi Pernia Domico Be Freed Immediately!

• 2000
  - Solidarity with the U'wa people
  - A violent eviction has been ordered against the U'wa indigenous people
  - Action for the U'wa people in Colombia
  - Oxy invades U´wa territory

• 1999
  - The Embera Katio's struggle for life
  - Violence and deforestation in the Chocó region
  - Official statement of the U´wa people
  - Solidarity with the Embera Katio people of the Upper Sinu
  - Life or Death for the U'wa
  - Sign-on letter to the Colombian Minister of the Environment about pending license for oil drilling on the U'wa people's traditional territory
  - Support to the U'wa people in Colombia

LINKS

Etnias de Colombia
http://www.etniasdecolombia.org/

ASPROCIG 
(Asociacion de Campesinos y Pescadores para el Desarrollo Comunitario de la Cienaga Grande de Lorica y sus Humedales)
http://www.asprocig.org.co

 CENSAT Agua Viva
http://www.censat.org/

Tropenbos International - Colombia Programme
http://www.tropenbos.nl/

Escuela del Agua
http://espanol.geocities.com/escueladelagua/index.htm

Fundación Beteguma
http://www.beteguma.tk/

Grupo Semillas
http://www.semillas.org.co