Natural Resources, Conflict & Human Rights
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Glencore should take responsibility towards victims of bloodcoal
18-02-2021After almost 30 years of exploiting two large coal mines in northern Colombia, causing serious social, human rights and environmental impacts for the local population, the multinational Glencore, through its subsidiary Prodeco, announced this month the closure of its mining operations in Colombia. PAX is worried that Prodeco-Glencore's decision implies that the mining company will avoid its responsibility towards the victims of violence in the Cesar mining region.
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Top-level Drummond managers charged with financing paramilitaries
13-01-2021The current and the former president of the Colombian subsidiary of the American coal giant Drummond have been charged with complicity in gross human rights violations. In 2014, PAX published on these matters in its report "The Dark Side of Coal".
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Building peace by protecting the environment
06-11-2020As wildfires rage through countries in conflict and oil spills and toxic waste threaten to cause environmental catastrophes in warzones, the environmental dimensions of armed conflicts are now more urgent than ever.
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Conference on how the revive the Colombian Peace Agreement
22-09-2020The Colombian Peace Agreement was signed four years ago this Saturday, but not enough has been done to make it a success. On the contrary. Objectives are not met and violence is everywhere. So on September 26, the Colombian collective of civil society organisations Defendamos la Paz (Let us defend peace) presents ‘The world demands peace’. An international, virtual conference towards the implementation of the Colombian Peace Agreement.
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Water access to north east Syria cut off by Turkey-backed armed groups
31-03-2020Dealing with the outbreak of coronavirus is hard enough in countries at peace. For hundreds of thousands of people living in north east Syria, fighting the pandemic is complicated by the fact that their water has been cut off.
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Colombia: Armed groups using corona crisis as cover to kill
27-03-2020After eight human rights defenders were assassinated, and others have received death threats, Colombian activists fear that the health crisis caused by the coronavirus is being exploited by illegal armed groups.
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New testimonies against mining multinational Drummond
15-01-2020Six managers of mining company Drummond have been interrogated in a criminal investigation that has recently been started by the Colombian public prosecution. A total of 12 new testimonies shed light on the alleged links between Drummond and paramilitaries that are deemed responsible for many deaths and displacements in the region in the 1996-2006 period. Displaced communities have reacted by emphasizing their right to remedy and the need for a dialogue between mining companies and victims on truth and reconciliation.
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Prodeco-Glencore reflects on possible complicity in human rights abuses
18-10-2019Mining company Prodeco-Glencore seems to take steps in seriously assessing its human rights impact in mining region of Cesar. In its recently published Sustainability Report the Swiss mining company acknowledges the possibility of ‘complicity with human rights abuses by the armed forces’ and being ‘linked to breaches of international humanitarian law.’
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EnBW puts PR above Human Rights
26-09-2019PAX has ended its engagement with German energy company EnBW. PAX came to this decision, together with the German NGOs MISEREOR and Urgewald, after EnBW published a report on its Colombian coal supply.
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Mining companies speak out jointly against threats to social leaders
24-05-2019Mining companies Prodeco, Drummond, Cerrejón and CNR have responded jointly to death threats against Colombian social leaders. The leaders received these death threats shortly after a meeting with Dutch MPs about the human rights situation in the Cesar coal mining region.
Natural Resources, Conflict & Human Rights, Colombia