Blog Archives
You Can’t Evade Justice with a Plebiscite in the Ballot Box
June 30. 2008( Translated by Steve Cagan, a CSN volunteer translator) The attacks by President Álvaro Uribe Vélez against the … Read More »
Constitutions, Crisis and Courage
Constitutions, Crises and Courage By John I. Laun June 27, 2008 … Read More »
THE COUNTRY NEEDS TO RETURN TO INSTITUTIONAL LEGITIMACY
Communique of the Permanent Committee for Defense of Human Rights (Translated by John I. Laun, a CSN volunteer translator) … Read More »
AFRO-DESCENDANT COMMUNITIES OF THE BAJO NAYA REGION TAKE LEGAL ACTION
( Translated by Kevin Funk, a CSN volunteer translator) Sent by the Jose Alvear Restrepo Lawyer’s Collective (Colombia) (Autor: CCajar) … Read More »
LAWSUIT AGAINST LEGISLATION THAT ALLOWED URIBE’S REELECTION
(Sent in English by the Colectivo Alvear Restrepo) Social Organizations File Lawsuit against Legislative Act Allowing Reelectionof the President of … Read More »
Wayuu Prehearing in Cabo de la Vela
(Translated by Kevin Funk, a CSN volunteer translator) June 18 and 19:Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal“Historic Extermination of the indigenous peoples of … Read More »
THE FAILURE OF FUMIGATION
(English/Espanol) By John I. Laun Madison, June 23, 2008 A news item in the U.S. press this past week calls … Read More »
Details of testimony that involves Uribe in a massacre
(Translated by Steve Cagan, a CSN volunteer translator) The Nuevo Herald last weekend published an article with the declaration … Read More »
CROP-DUSTING RESUMES, AFFECTING SUBSISTENCE CROPS IN ARAUCA
(Translated by Peter Lenny, a CSN volunteer translator) Thursday, 12 June 2008 by: Prensa – Colectivo (Colombia) (Author: Asociación Municipal … Read More »
TRANSNATIONAL COAL AND OIL COMPANIES VIOLATE INDIGENOUS RIGHTS IN NORTHEASTERN COLOMBIA
( Translated by Stephanie DiBello, a CSN’s volunteer translator)From TPP ( Permanent People’s Tribunal) and ONIC ( Colombia’s National Indigenous … Read More »