The Truth About BP’s Corporate Responsibility in Colombia: Communities and Oil Workers Speak Out

2pm – 7pm Saturday 30 June 2007, followed by Social (till 10)
Human Rights Action Centre, 17-25 New Inn Yard, London EC2.
(Nearest tube Old Street)

Witnesses from Colombia’s social movements describe how their human rights and environment are affected by oil corporations’ thirst for profits.

BP operates Colombia’s second most productive oilfields and they reaped profits of $347 million in 2006. At the same time BP’s workers cannot organise a trade union, the surrounding environment has been ruined and local communities live under a permanent reign of paramilitary terror. This is the human cost of Big Oil’s profits.

Colombian delegates:

Edgar Mojica, Human Rights Commission of USO, Oilworkers Union
Isaac Marín Lizarazo and William Manuel Vega Vargas, representatives from Casanare oil field communities, COS-PACC

Expert commentary on BP’s tarnished record on corporate responsibility by:

Irene Gerlach, Former Community Relations Advisor for BP Africa
Shubhaa Srinivasan, Leigh Day & Co Solicitors

The meeting will be chaired by Nick Dearden, Amnesty International UK.

Colombia’s social movements are holding a People’s Tribunal on oil in Bogotá 2nd-4th August 2007 and this is combined with a preliminary hearing in Glasgow 22nd-23rd June. These are the preliminary actions in an ongoing campaign. Please support this initiative of grassroots social organizations!

For more info contact Colombia Solidarity Campaign, PO Box 8446, London N17 6NZ
E-mail: info@colombiasolidarity.org.uk
Website: colombiasolidarity.org.uk
Tel: 07852751599