Take Action Now: Stop the Free Trade Agreements with Colombia, Panama and Korea

The time is now for you to voice your support for fair wages and human rights! Tell your Representatives today that you say NO to the Colombia, Panama and Korea Free Trade Agreements. Call 1-800-718-1008 to connect to your Representative  Check out www.tradewatch.org to learn more about the impacts free trade agreements have already had on working communities around the world

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Haiti Urgent Action: Fear of Eviction for 200 Families

Two hundred families have been threatened with eviction from their makeshift camp in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Amnesty International is concerned that they may be forcibly evicted at any time, without receiving alternative adequate accommodation.

Families living in a makeshift camp called Camp Mosayik in the Delmas municipality of the capital Port-au-Prince have been threatened with eviction. On the afternoon of 9 September four people claiming to represent the Delmas municipal authorities arrived at the camp. They proceeded to mark several shelters on the perimeter of the camp for demolition on 13 September. They subsequently told residents that the entire camp would be demolished on that day. No court order for the eviction or any other legal notice was presented. The eviction threat could also affect the neighbouring camp, called Camp Mormon. An Amnesty International delegation in Haiti was informed by the Delmas municipal authorities that they had not sent anyone to the camp to inform of evictions and believed that the individuals must be criminals looking to seize the land.

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Take Action to Protect Afro-Colombian Activists, Religious Leaders and Trade Unionists

The Afro-Colombian Solidarity Network (ACSN) strongly denounces the following security incidents that have taken place in Afro-Colombian communities since July:

Curvaradó and Jiguamiandó (Chocó)
Last week, two persons from the communities of Curvaradó and Jiguamiandó, Everto González and Francisco Pineda, were presumably disappeared and their whereabouts remain unknown. Another 32 members of these communities are facing death threats. Among those threatened is leader Enrique Petro who has provisional protection measures from the OAS. In this area, paramilitaries continue to act with impunity despite the presence of members of the Army’s 17th Brigade, who have taken no action against the estimated 300 paramilitary troops who have been seen repeatedly in the locality in recent weeks.

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