No to the ratification of EU-Colombia/Peru FTAs
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Dossier on EU-Colombia Free Trade Agreement
The EU-Colombia Free Trade Agreement implies violations in human rights, and trade unionists in particular. Read about the possible implications in three sectors; mining, palmoil and dairy.
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Banacol implicated in paramilitarism and landgrabbing in Colombia
Evidence shows that transnational tropical fruit producer Banacol provided support to paramilitary groups and predatory businessmen involved in land-invasions in Colombia.
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Open letter to Martin Schulz on Colombian human rights abuses
By ratifying the Free Trade Agreement with Colombia, the European Parliament committed itself to give a special follow-up to the “respect of human rights and the environment” by implementing the “road map” agreed upon...
Eerst zien, dan geloven
Wat zijn de gevolgen van een vrijhandelsverdrag tussen de EU en Colombia/Peru? Daarover debatteerden vier Colombiaanse en twee Nederlandse deskundigen op 30 mei in De Balie in Amsterdam.
NO to the EU - Colombia/Peru Free Trade Agreement
Call on your MEP to oppose EU's proposed Free Trade Agreements with Colombia, Peru and Central America because they will undermine human rights, increase unemployment and put corporate profits above human needs.
The War on Colombia’s Poor
The EU's proposed free trade agreement with Colombia will worsen the already serious human rights violations in the country, as its drive to access to cheap raw materials for European corporations means forcing local people off their land.
Publications
Between Mobilisation and Conflict
The agrarian sector launched a national strike in Colombia which spread quickly across other sectors, against the impacts of the FTA with the US and Canada. It is evident that the current economic model has failed as a result of a combination of...
Banacol implicated in paramilitarism and landgrabbing in Colombia
Evidence shows that transnational tropical fruit producer Banacol provided support to paramilitary groups and predatory businessmen involved in land-invasions in Colombia.
Dossier on EU-Colombia Free Trade Agreement
The EU-Colombia Free Trade Agreement implies violations in human rights, and trade unionists in particular. Read about the possible implications in three sectors; mining, palmoil and dairy.
Joint letter to MEPs on the EU-Peru/Colombia FTA
As a result of continuing violence in Colombia and violation of human and labour rights, and the weakening of the Andean Community through individual EU trade agreements rather than bloc-to-bloc relations, the ETUC and TUCA call for legislators...
Time for Europe to put human rights above commercial advantage
Free trade or slave trade? How the EU's free trade agreements in Colombia and Peru reward human rights abuses, destroy livelihoods, promote land grabbing and strip governments of their sovereignty to regulate capital flows.
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The Second Conquest: The EU Free Trade Agreement with Colombia and Peru
The neoliberal FTAs pursued by the EU with Colombia and Peru threaten to exacerbate human rights abuses - which include killings of trade unionists, forced expropriations of indigenous people from land, and environmental destruction - for the...
