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Territories of action

• Bajo Cauca

  In the Bajo Cauca sub-region, the Observatory, together with organizations such as the Pluriethnic Network for the Defense of Territory and Human Rights, which brings together around 103 communities and Afro-descendant, indigenous, peasant, fishermen, environmental, women's and victims' organizations, has been working on accompaniment, research and action on issues such as:

   

  • Memory, in terms of cases of forced disappearance in the context of the armed conflict.
  • Impacts of mining exploitation in the river basin, with a special focus on the impacts on women's bodies in the municipality of Nechí and the village of Puerto Claver, in the municipality of El Bagre.
  • The implementation of point 1 of the peace agreement "Integral Rural Reform".
  • Accompaniment as members of the advisory team to the Guardians of the Cauca River, thus recognized as of sentence 038 of 2019 that declared the Cauca River as a subject of rights and which was issued by the Superior Court of Medellin.
  • Accompaniment in the discussion of the land use planning model in the Serranía de San Lucas.
  • Accompaniment in the construction of a citizen control mechanism for the implementation of the Plan de Ordenamiento y Manejo de Cuenca -POMCA- of the lower-middle basin of the Nechí River.
  • Accompaniment in the documentation and constitution of the Asociación de Campesinos del Bajo Cauca -ASOCBAC- as subjects of collective reparation and in the filing of a precautionary measure before the Inter-American Human Rights System for this organization and its members.

• Valle de Aburrá

  In the subregion of Valle de Aburrá, the Observatory has a work of accompaniment, research and action on issues such as:

   

  • Participation in the Air Quality and Public Health Movement.
  • The construction of a training school in human rights, which works on research and communication skills of young people to document and denounce the violation of human rights from the youth in Medellin.
  • Promoting strategies aimed at the prevention and protection of children, adolescents and young people in contexts of recruitment and use by armed groups.

• Northeast

  In the sub-region of Northeastern Antioquia, the Observatory, together with the Association of People Affected by the Porce River -AFEPORCE-, has been working on accompaniment, research and action on issues such as:

   

  • Documentation and characterization of a comparative case study on the impacts of the Porce II, III and IV project, carried out by Empresas Públicas de Medellín.
  • The documentation and characterization of a comparative case study on the impacts of the exploration and extractive exploitation of the Gramalote project, carried out by AngloGold Ashanti Colombia in the municipality of San Roque.
  • Legal support to the Association of People Affected by the Porce River -AFEPORCE-.

• Southwest

  In the sub-region of Southwest Antioquia, the Observatory, hand in hand with the Western Environmental Belt and the Environmental Roundtable of Jericho, has a work of accompaniment, research and action on issues such as:

   

  • The documentation and characterization of a comparative case study on the impacts of the exploration and intended extractive exploitation of the Quebradona Copper Mining project, carried out by AngloGold Ashanti Colombia.
  • Legal support to farmers in the municipality of Jericho who were sued by AngloGold Ashanti Colombia.

• West

  In the subregion of western Antioquia, the Observatory has research and action work on issues such as:

   

  • The documentation and characterization of a comparative case study on the impacts of the extractive exploitation of the Buriticá Mine project, carried out by ZIJING-CONTINENTAL GOLD.

• Other territories

Associations with which we work

• Association of People Affected by the Porce River -AFEPORCE-
• Western Environmental Belt
• Environmental Board of Jericho
• Red Pluriétnica por la Defensa del Territorio y los Derechos Humanos del Bajo Cauca