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La manera en que las actividades empresariales afectan a las vidas de los miembros de la población local de Colombia y de El Salvador fue señalada por los participantes patrocinados por el CMI en el Foro de las Naciones Unidas sobre las empresas y los derechos humanos.

An emphasis on establishing societies that offer opportunities for fulfillment and development to all was endorsed by participants in a meeting at Bogota, Colombia. Such societies, they said, would especially benefit people with disabilities in Latin America, a region where prevalence of disability is high, as reported by the Economic Commission for Latin America.

Reconocer que la sociedad debe ser el espacio de realización plena de las personas, de oportunidades de desarrollo para todas las personas de todas las edades, ha sido una de las principales conclusiones del “Encuentro Latinoamericano por los derechos y la participación socioeclesial de las personas con discapacidad”, acuerdo que beneficiaría al creciente porcentaje de personas con discapacidad existentes en la región, la más desigual del mundo, según datos de la Comisión Económica para América Latina.

At the Second United Nations Annual Forum on Business and Human Rights, human rights defenders from Colombia and Guatemala exposed degrading environmental, ecological, economic and social impacts on indigenous communities. These impacts are consequences of the projects run by multinational companies in a number of countries.

En el segundo Foro anual de las Naciones Unidas sobre las Empresas y los Derechos Humanos, los defensores de los derechos humanos de Colombia y Guatemala expresaron su preocupación por el impacto de la degradación medioambiental, ecológica, económica y social en las comunidades indígenas. Este impacto es una consecuencia de los proyectos gestionados por empresas multinacionales en varios países.

Three human rights activists from indigenous communities in Guatemala and Colombia will present cases highlighting human rights violations by multinational corporations in their countries, including instances of land grabbing, at the Second United Nations Annual Forum on Business and Human Rights.

The world's first Arms Trade Treaty is “a milestone in efforts to bring commerce in deadly weapons under much-needed controls,” according to the general secretary of the World Council of Churches (WCC).

The WCC Executive Committee has expressed deep concern about the alarming increase in threats to human security in Latin America. The committee has called for renewed efforts by churches to ensure peaceful and just societies.

Church representatives at a recent Oikotree Global Forum in Johannesburg, South Africa stressed the need to support peoples'€™ movements promoting justice in the economy and ecology, a concern, they say, that lies at the heart of the faith.

By Marcelo Schneider (*)

Youth engagement in eco-justice is expanding in scope and sophistication, says Marcelo Leites, Latin American and Caribbean regional secretary for the World Student Christian Federation (WSCF).

By Susan Kim (*)

Death threats against human rights defenders in Colombia have caused "great concern" for the World Council of Churches (WCC). A letter from the WCC to the Colombian president, Juan Manuel Santos, calls on the “government to take all necessary measures to effectively protect the life and physical integrity” of the human rights defenders.

By Marcelo Schneider (*)

By Marcelo Schneider (*)

By Marcelo Schneider (*)

The general secretary of the World Council of Churches (WCC) the Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit arrived Tuesday in São Paulo, Brazil for a six-day visit which includes the delivery of documents related to human rights issues during the military dictatorship from 1964 - 1985 and visits with Brazilian churches and Latin America ecumenical agencies.

By Theodore Gill*

A half century of civil conflict fuelled by drug money and corporate hegemony has left Colombia with tens of thousands dead and the second largest population of displaced people (approximately 4 million) in the world.

A World Council of Churches (WCC) consultation on ecumenical accompaniment in Colombia was held in Geneva on 2-3 December. Participants affirmed the ecumenical commitment to strengthen the peace process in Colombia. The consultation decided to explore ways to initiate an international ecumenical accompaniment programme in Colombia as a contribution to the Colombian peace process.