Virtual Side Event: To mark the 6th Session of the open-ended intergovernmental working group on transnational corporations and other business...
Category: Emblematic Cases

UN expert calls for halt to mining at Carbones de Cerrejon’s controversial Colombia site
UN expert David R. Boyd UN Special Rapporteur on human rights and the environment calls for halt to mining at Carbones de Cerrejon...

ABColombia profound concerns regarding Cerrejon’s lack of compliance with Court Rulings.
ABColombia and CINEP’s reply (7 August 2020) to letter from Cerrejon’s letter (5 June 2020). This letter outlines our grave...

Amicus Brief: Arroyo Bruno
ABColombia and the Colombian Caravana UK Lawyers Group in August 2020 filed an Amicus Brief before the Court of Execution...

Linea Negra Decreto 1500
After years of consultation by the four Indigenous Peoples of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta: Kogui, Arhuaco, Kankuamo and...

Rival Illegal Armed Groups Terrify Communities in the Rio Quito Chocó
On 15 May 2020 there was an armed skirmish between illegal armed groups in the Rio Quito Choco, as one...

Letter to President Ivan Duque: COVID-19 and the Humanitarian and Human Rights Crisis
ABColombia wrote the following letter to President Ivan Duque on 31 March 2020. You will find a copy of the...

In the International Women’s Day ABColombia say #IStandWith Emilse Paz
“Our dream is the demilitarization of our territories, so they are peace territories, as they were years ago. There we...

Guardians of the Atrato River visit the EU
In November 2019 two Guardians of the River Atrato together with the a representative of the Dioceses of Quibdo, Choco,...

Cerrejon and the River Bruno
The Carbones de Cerrejón mine is owned by three multinational companies two of which are registered on the British Stock...
