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Briefing Papers
Challenging Impunity: Human Rights Violations, Displacement
of Indigenous Communities and Corporate Responsibility in Colombia
On Wednesday 25th May 2005 the Australian Human Rights Centre hosted a
seminar featuring Debora Barros Fince, an indigenous leader from the Wayuu
community in Colombia . Ms. Barros spoke of the massacre which took place
in her community on April 15, 2004 which left 12 Wayuu killed, 20 missing
and more than 300 displaced from the land they had occupied for more than
500 years. Ms. Barros is currently seeking legal redress for what she described
as the failure of the Colombian government to properly investigate the
killings and was in Sydney to tell her story and seek answers. Rosemary
Jimenez, a Colombian journalist also addressed the seminar and spoke of
the intractable problems of pursuing redress in the Colombian legal system.
For more information, please download this Summary
of the Colombian Seminar.
Human Rights in Taiwan
In November 2004 the Australian Human Rights Centre together with the
Diplomacy Training Program and the Indigenous Law Centre hosted a Human
Rights Delegation from Taiwan. Many issues were discussed including Indigenous
rights, women's rights and civil rights. The briefing paper on human
rights in Taiwan was prepared by one of the Australian Human Rights
Centre's interns. It gives an overview of the present situation and
suggests areas that still need to be addressed.
Briefing Paper: Human
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