{"id":18874,"date":"2019-09-11T13:13:24","date_gmt":"2019-09-11T12:13:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=18874"},"modified":"2020-11-12T12:55:34","modified_gmt":"2020-11-12T12:55:34","slug":"human-rights-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=18874","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Human rights crisis&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Speaking in support of a motion on Colombia, Unite delegate Tommy Murphy highlighted the severe crisis around human rights in the country as well as the slow implementation of the peace agreement.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bDespite the commitment of the Colombian government to uphold the peace process, and a recognition by President Duque of the right to peaceful protest we are still seeing a very dangerous situation facing all those who speak out for justice in Colombia,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 he explained.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Tommy noted that the Unite\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s sister union in Workers Uniting, Fensuagro, have been among the worst hit.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bFensuagro have had over 30 members murdered since the peace process began, suffered attacks and threats and forcibly displaced by armed groups, and their leader Huber Ballesteros spent 4 years in jail on trumped up charges,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 he said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Tommy said he was proud all the work Workers Uniting and other campaign groups involved in the trade union movement such as Justice for Colombia have done to support the peace process, but he added that more must be done and international pressure will be at the heart of their efforts.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He urged Congress, \u00e2\u20ac\u015bDo not take your eye off the ball \u00e2\u20ac\u201c the crisis facing trade unions and human rights activists in Colombia is far from over, but is actually deteriorating \u00e2\u20ac\u201c so we need to redouble our efforts.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bUnite will continue to condemn the persecution of Colombian trade unionists, civil society, social movements and political activists, and support the CUT in their demand that the peace agreement is fully implemented,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 he added.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bUnite will also continue to work with Justice for Colombia on its campaigning on Trade Union and human rights which is inseparable from its ground breaking and crucial peace monitoring work.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The motion was carried.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking in support of a motion on Colombia, Unite delegate Tommy Murphy highlighted the severe crisis around human rights in the country as well as the slow implementation of the peace agreement. &nbsp; &nbsp; \u00e2\u20ac\u015bDespite the commitment of the Colombian government to uphold the peace process, and a recognition by President Duque of the right [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18875,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[592,158,1221],"wps_subtitle":"Unite's Tommy Murphy on fighting for justice for Colombia","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18874"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18874"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25016,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18874\/revisions\/25016"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}