Den brittiska fackföreningsrörelsen ordnar en konferens i Bryssel den 9 december för att lansera en rapport i kampanjen för att stoppa handelsförhandlingarna mellan EU och Colombia. På konferensen närvarar bland annat Domingo Tovar, ordförande för den Colombianska fackliga landsorganisationen CUT, och Sherrod Brown, demokratisk senator som kommer att berätta om varför USA stoppat sitt handelsavtal med Colombia. Vill du delta på konferensen? Kontakta Colombianätverket, joanna.castro@colombianatverket.se, eller Justice for Colombia, info@justiceforcolombia.org eller +44 207 794 3644. Ladda ner rapporten här.

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Trading Away Human Rights? Special Hearing on the proposed EU-Colombia Free Trade Agreement

The EU is in the process of negotiating a Free Trade Agreement with Colombia – despite the terrible human rights situation in that country. Similar agreements with the USA, Canada and the EFTA group of countries have all been delayed due to human rights concerns and Colombian civil society are calling on the EU to suspend the negotiations until the human rights situation improves dramatically.

Please attend this special hearing to find out more. Speakers include:
• US Senator Sherrod Brown (tbc), Democratic Party, on why the Obama Administration has refused to ratify a Free Trade Agreement with Colombia;
• Dr Domingo Tovar, General Secretary of CUT, Colombia’s principle labour federation, on the ongoing violence against Colombian trade unionists;
• Colombian Senator Jorge Robledo, Democratic Pole Party, on why Colombia will not benefi t from the proposed Free Trade Agreement;
• Miss Yessika Hoyos, human rights lawyer, daughter of a murdered trade union leader, and recipient of the AFL-CIO human rights award, on the crisis of
impunity in Colombia;
• John Monks, General Secretary of the ETUC, on why the European trade union movement is supporting the campaign against the EU-Colombia trade deal.
• Chair: Richard Howitt MEP, Co-ordinator for the Socialist and Democrat Group for the European Parliament’s Human Rights Sub-Committee

4.30-6.30pm, Wednesday 9th December 2009
Room A3G-3, Altiero Spinelli building, European Parliament, Brussels
Simultaneous Interpretation (EN, ES, FR)

6.30pm, drinks reception, Members Salon, Altiero Spinelli building