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IPS: COLOMBIA: Oil Palms, Right Abuses Hand in Hand in Northwest

IPS: COLOMBIA: Oil Palms, Right Abuses Hand in Hand in Northwest

Article published by Inter Press Service, September 2008.

BOGOTA, , Sep 5 (IPS) - As of this week, there is one less human rights defender in the northwestern Colombian region of Bajo Atrato. Jimmy Jansasoy of the Inter-Church Justice and Peace Commission was forced to flee the area, where oil palm plantations have encroached on the collectively-owned jungle territories of traditional black communities.

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