Labor Rights

Paramilitaries Threaten Brink’s Workers in Bogotá

By Cruz Bonlarron Martinez The Witness for Peace Solidarity Collective recently received reports that Brink’s workers affiliated with the...

Drummond President on Trial for Alleged Paramilitary Ties

Current Drummond President, José Miguel Linares, and the former president, Augusto Jiménez, are being charged by the Colombian Attorney

At Least Two Killed and One Injured in Northern Cauca as Attacks on Campesinos Continue in Impunity

Witness for Peace Solidarity Collective Condemns the recent attacks against Campesino organizers and human rights defenders in Miranda,...

A Look Back at 2019

2019 proved to be one of the deadliest years on record for human rights defenders in Colombia. At least 250 social leaders lost their...

ASOTRECOL'S Campaign for Justice

A group of protestors have dedicated the last 8 years of their lives permanently occupying a public space in front of the U.S embassy

Colombia’s War of Neoliberal Economics

Despite the 2016 peace accords in Colombia, conflict and violence continue due to the U.S.-supported neoliberal economic model. In order...

Celebrate February 14th as International Flower Workers’ Day

By Lisa Taylor, WFP Colombia In the United States, February 14th has traditionally been celebrated as Valentine’s Day, a day when love is...

Take Action to Protect Honduran Workers

In April, Delta Apparel – a US-based company – fired 40 workers with crippling musculoskeletal injuries from their factory in Honduras....

Mining in Mexico: the NAFTA connection

Out of a list of 926 mining projects in Mexico, there are 85 exploration projects from the U.S.A. 21 have been postponed, 23 in...

As Fast-Track Gathers Steam in Washington, Colombian Leaders Speak Out Against Three Years of FTA

By Julia Duranti, Witness for Peace Colombia While the U.S. Senate gears up for a final vote following Tuesday’s temporary setback on ...

International Flower Workers Day: Corporate tax breaks while workers pick up the slack

Cactus, a Colombian NGO that accompanies flower workers and their families in the Bogotá Savannah and participated in a WfP Upper...

Port Workers Union in Urabá denounce intimidation of unionists & other Labor Action Plan violations

By the Port Workers Union of Colombia Apartadó, Colombia December 29, 2014 Cargoban workers demand labor justice The actions that...

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