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May 10, 2006 -- 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 ...
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Honorable Alvaro Uribe
President of the Republic of Colombia
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Mr. Isaac Ivanovich
President, ECOPETROL
VIA EMAIL AND FAX
We write you on behalf of 57 non-governmental organizations, representing 12 countries to express our utmost concern with respect to renewed plans by ECOPETROL to initiate seismic testing and oil exploration on legally titled territories of the U’wa indige...
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May 02, 2006 -- IACHR Expresses Its Concern For The Situation Of Human Rights In Colombia...
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Nº 16/06
IACHR expresses Concern about the Human Rights Situation in Colombia.
Washington D.C. -
Excerpt from the Section on Indigenous Peoples:
The violence targeted at indigenous peoples in Colombia was even more severe in 2005, as they continued to be the victims of massacres, selective executions, forced disappearances, forced displacement from their ancestral territ...
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Mar 19, 2006 -- 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...
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| March 19, 2006
Honorable Alvaro Uribe
President of the Republic of Colombia
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Mr. Isaac Ivanovich
President, ECOPETROL
We write you on behalf of Amazon Watch, a U.S.-based non-profit environmental and human rights organization and the U’wa Defense Project that provides legal, community development, research & advocacy support to the U'wa people as they work to defend their life, ...
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Dec 03, 2003 -- BOLETIN INFORMATIVO -
Resguardo Indígena Unido U’wa, Cubará (Boyacá)...
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| ECOPETROL en el año 1.985 inicia actividades petroleras en territorio ancestral U’wa con el proyecto de explotación en Caño Limón (Arauca), la construcción del oleoducto Caño Limón Coveñas, y la construcción de la Estación de bombeo en territorio de la comunidad indígena de Tamarana”Sutota” en el corregimiento de Samore, municipio de Toledo, Norte de Santander. Hace 9 años adelanta activi...
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Jul 01, 2003 -- U'wa Communique...
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The U’wa People, Children of God, Children of our Mother Earth, Lovers of the Natural World and of the Spirits
The U’wa people are tired of the proliferation of false promises that the Colombian government has made to us. We, the U’wa, are the guardians of this, our ancestral territory of thousands of years, and each day, the government and corporations are violating our...
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Apr 25, 2003 -- Occidental Petroleum Faces Lawsuit for
Its Role in Massacre in Colombia
Plaintiff Questions CEO at the Company’s Annual Meeting ...
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| Los Angeles, CA — Luis Alberto Galvis Mujica, the plaintiff in a lawsuit filed yesterday against Occidental Petroleum, attended the company’s annual shareholder meeting today to question CEO Ray Irani about Occidental’s role in the 1998 Santo Domingo Massacre in Colombia.
“As a family member of the victims, as a witness, and a survivor, I seek the truth, justice, and reparations for the damages...
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Apr 24, 2003 -- Colombia: Another US War for Oil?...
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| Protest outside Occidental Petroleum's Annual Shareholder Meeting
- Friday, April 25, 8:30 am
- The St. Regis Hotel, 2055 Avenue of the Stars; Los Angeles, CA 90067
With eyes focused on Iraq, Congress recently approved over $100 million to arm and train Colombian troops to protect Los Angeles-based Occidental Petroleum's oil pipeline in war torn Colombia. Occidental gained infamy for their r...
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Apr 24, 2003 -- Occidental Petroleum Sued in U.S. Courts for Role in Civilian Massacre in Colombia
Plaintiff to Address CEO and Shareholders at Annual Meeting on Fr...
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| Los Angeles, CA - International rights attorneys filed suit today under the Alien Tort Claims Act against Occidental Petroleum and its security contractor, Airscan, Inc., for their role in the murder of innocent civilians in the hamlet of Santo Domingo, Colombia on December 13, 1998.
The filing coincides with OXY's annual stockholders' meeting on Friday, where a survivor of the massacre and c...
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Mar 19, 2003 -- Oil Fuels Conflict from Iraq to Colombia:
March 24 Mobilization Demands End to US Military Aid...
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| From Iraq to Colombia, conflict over oil is forcing civilians into the crossfire. On Monday, March 24, peace activists will stage a rally and march to draw attention to the role of American corporations that are directly or indirectly profiting from war in oil rich regions such as Colombia and Iraq.
Demonstrators, speakers and survivors of one of Colombia’s most tragic civilian massacres will ...
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Mar 10, 2003 -- U’wa: Collective Suicide
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| The Highest Council of the U’wa Traditional Authorities would like to clarify the issue of collective suicide to the national and international community.
As part of our sad history-- that today is very much a part of our U’wa culture’s fight for socio-cultural survival through time and space-- the event at the “Cliff of the Dead,” in the municipality of Güicán, department of Boyacá is kept in...
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