OIDHACO Newsletter May – June 2013

The newsletter includes information on: peace process; the land issue - protests in the Catatumbo region, mining and forced displacement -; justice and military jurisdiction; human rights defenders situation, in particular journalists; and EU policy.

The newsletter includes information on: peace process; the land issue – protests in the Catatumbo region, mining and forced displacement -; justice and military jurisdiction; human rights defenders situation, in particular journalists; and EU policy.
 
It contains the following sections:
– Mining in Colombia: 80% of the human rights violations occurring in Colombia are taking place in mining and oil municipalities
– Land in Colombia, source and object of conflict. The peace process must respond to this.
— Forced displacement continues to worsen
–Agreement on a “Comprehensive Agricultural Development Policy” in the peace negotiations
–Violent repression against campesinos uprising in the Catatumbo region, Northern Santander
– Attacks on defenders – special focus on attacks against journalists.
– European Peace Roundtables
– The reform of military criminal jurisdiction and its statutory law, a law which distorts International Human Rights law and reinforces the constitutional reform
– Colombia in the EU
— EU-Colombia human rights dialogue
— Visit of the Colombian Defense Minister to Brussels
Newsletter auf Englisch oder Spanisch unter:
http://www.oidhaco.org/?art=1695&title=Bolet%EDn+OIDHACO+%96+Mayo+-+Junio+2013&lang=en
http://www.oidhaco.org/?art=1695&lang=es