Two events with Colombian Human Rights Activist, Delis Palacios
“Reflections on a South-South Exchange”
Thursday, October 3, 2013, 12-2pm
Liu Institute for Global Issues, Research Unit 121
Space is limited. Please RSVP
A workshop with Delis Palacios on her participation in a south-south exchange with other human rights defenders and survivors of the war in northern Uganada, exploring themes of community exchange and documentation of human rights violations.
“Resource Extraction, Land Ownership, and Internal Displacement”
Thursday, October 3, 2013, 5-7pm
Liu Institute for Global Issues, Multipurpose Room
A public lecture about how natural resource extraction, concentration of land ownership, and drug trafficking are related to forced displacement and systemic marginalization of Black Colombians.
Delis Palacios is an Afro-Colombian woman and leader of several groups of victims of the armed conflict in Colombia. In 2002 she survived one of the most violent episodes of this conflict, the Massacre of Bojayá, where 79 Afro-descendant people were murdered – most of them children. Since then she has assumed a leading role in the advocacy for human rights, denouncing the abuses committed by both the Colombian army and the illegal armed groups, and their relationship to the extraction of natural resources by multinational mining companies in the region.