No to the EU-Colombia/Peru FTA Ratification
IN MY NAME, DON´T RATIFY
In My Name, don´t ratify! - Sign and send a letter to your MEPs to reject the ratification of the Free Trade Agreements and Association Agreements between the European Union and Colombia, Perú and Central America (...)
Colombia continues being the most dangerous country for tradeunionists
Human Rights Watch in its 2012 Report on violence against Trade Unionists in Colombia writes: "While the number of trade unionists killed every year is less today than a decade ago, it remains higher than any other country in the world: 51 trade unionists were murdered in 2008, 47 in 2009, 51 in 2010, and 26 from January to November 15, 2011, according to the National Labor School (ENS), Colombia's leading NGO monitoring labor rights". Read the part of the Report dedicated to Colombia.
Colombian Activists in Europe in March and April
In March and April 2011, a delegation of Colombian trade unionists and human rights activists will be visiting Europe for a lobby tour will be received by national campaigns in Germany, Hungary, Austria, Spanish State, Bulgaria, France, Czech Republic, Belgium (tbc) and The Netherlands, to prevent the ratification of the Free Trade Agreement concluded by the EU with Colombia and Peru.
So far, the confirmed participants in the delegation include: Maria Victoria Forero, President of the National Board of Trade Union of Employees of the Colombian Institute of Family Welfare (SINTRABIENESTAR) which is affiliated to the Confederation of Workers-CUT; Maria del Pilar Silva Garay, lawyer and human rights activist. Linked to the Colectivo de Abogados "José Alvear Restrepo", a non-governmental human rights organization; Diogenes Orjuela Garcia, Director of the Department of International Relations of the Confederation of Workers-CUT Colombia; Nohora Stella Tovar, Vice President of Federation Fetramecol-metal sector, Mechanical and electrical in Colombia and Executive Secretary of the Confederation of Workers of Colombia (CTC in spanish)
Also, on the occasion of the lobby tour, a broad number of organisations from Europe have published the policy brief "Time for Europe to put values and human rights above commercial advantage. Why EU-Colombia/Peru Free Trade Agreements should not be ratified" available (english and spanish) for download from: www.tni.org/sites/www.tni.org/files/download/EU-Colombia-Peru-FTA%20Policy%20Brief.pdf
Strategy Meeting 7th October 2010
STRATEGY MEETING FOR THE NO-RATIFICATION OF THE EU-COLOMBIA/PERU FTA
7th October 2010, Brussels
