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London No Sweat forum: CANCELLED, sorry.

Submitted on 29 December, 2011 - 11:58

Date:

4 April, 2006 - 21:30

Location:

The Plough, Museum St, London WC1

Description:

Hernando Hernandez Tapasco, Human Rights Officer for FENSUAGRO, the Colombian Agricultural Workers' Union, has has had to pull out at the last minute because of a family crisis.

Stop Coca-Cola's foul play in Colombia: picket of FIFA World Cup Trophy tour

Submitted on 29 December, 2011 - 11:58

Date:

23 March, 2006 - 15:00

Location:

Old Billingsgate Market, 16 Lower Thames St, London EC3 (nearest Tube Tower Hill).

Oil workers strike and occupy in Colombia

Submitted on 10 June, 2010 - 12:53

Author:

Colombia Solidarity Campaign

On 21 May workers involved in construction operations in BP’s Tauramena installation entered into occupation demanding:
• a wage increase; the establishment a wage scale;
• due process in disciplinary decisions;
• labour guarantees for the workers.

Colombian students seek solidarity

Submitted on 25 April, 2008 - 06:49

Author:

Daniel Randall

Numa Andrés Paredes Betancourt, a member of the National Executive Committee of the ACEU (one of Colombia’s main student union federations), visited Britain recently as part of a trip organised by

Army assassinates agricultural workers

Submitted on 20 April, 2005 - 01:20

The Colombian army has assassinated three members of the agricultural workers trade union FENSUAGRO, from the town of San Juan de Sumapaz on the outskirts of the Colombian capital Bogotá.

Stop the killing!

Submitted on 4 March, 2005 - 02:32

From Justice for Colombia

The National Trade Union School [NTUS], a EU funded research institution based in Medellin, Colombia, records 94 assassinations of trade unionists in 2004, an increase on the 90 trade unionists that both the NTUS and the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU) registered killed in 2003.

Colombian army murders leader of agricultural workers

Submitted on 2 February, 2005 - 16:28

From Justice for Colombia: Just after midday on Saturday January 29th some 500 members of the 17th Brigade of the Colombian Army entered the rural area of Jiguamuando.

Workers of the world Round up

Submitted on 17 July, 2004 - 22:44

By Pablo Velasco

Inside:

Strike wave in South Korea
Soldiers terrorise workers Haitian workers
Victory for Colombian banana workers' strike
General strike in Nigeria stops petrol price rises

Workers of the world Round-up

Submitted on 23 June, 2004 - 11:52

By Pablo Velasco

Colombian oil workers halt privatisation: solidarity works!
"Massive summer strikes" planned in Korea
ANC against anti-privatisation activists
Argentine workers fight for a six-hour day

International caravan to save the lives of Colombian workers

Submitted on 27 April, 2004 - 08:26

From the Colombian trade union federation, CUT

In 2003, 78 trade unionists were killed in Colombia by paramilitary groups. Since the foundation of the Colombian Trade Union Federation (CUT), 3,800 trade unionists have died that way.