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Social and Climate Justice Caravan
Canadian Corporations are using paramilitaries to displace and KILL indigenous, afro descendants and peasants in Colombia to take over their territories
audio file: Canada: Human Rights Hypocrites
This radio interview is multilingual; spanish and english.
File info - 28.16 minutes. MP3 format. 3,23 MB
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For Immediate Release
Canada: Human Rights Hypocrites
Legislation ratifying a free trade agreement between Canada & Columbia is being passed in the Canadian Parliament.
Canadian officials, claim that a free trade agreement with Colombia, will result in an improved human rights situation in Colombia.
In recent days in Columbia five indigenous leaders have been murdered for their opposition to the Canadian mining firm Consigo Resources of Vancouver.
It is objectionable that Canadian transnational companies are complicit in human rights abuses of this magnitude.
Canada remains one of two countries that refuse to sign & ratify the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous peoples.
How can the Canadian government claim that Free trade agreement will improve human rights, when they refuse to acknowledge the importance of Indigenous rights?
Further Comment
Olivier de Marcellus 0041793427025 (French English)
Dave Bleakney (Canadian Postal Workers, English), and Jose Goyes (CRIC, Colombia, Spanish), 0032-489281693
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Location
Lille > COP15