Ethnic Commission for Peace and Defense of Territorial Rights
Channel: Consortium News
Date: 2021-08-12

The Ethnic Commission for Peace and the Defense of Territorial Rights meets to commemorate the fifth anniversary of the historic Peace Agreement and discuss the breach of what was agreed in the Ethnic Chapter. Among the prominent authorities are Albenis Tique, Carlos Rosero and Armando Wuoriyu Valbuena. International guests, to give their perspective within the framework of this agreement, especially the Peace Chapter, include

• Noam Chomsky: American linguist and intellectual;
• Rigoberta Mench: Guatemalan Indigenous leader and human rights defender, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate (1992);
• Gerry Kelly: Irish representative for Sinn Féin and negotiator of the Good Friday Agreement;
• José Ramos Horta: President of East Timor (Indonesia) between 2007-2012, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate (1996);
• George Gittoes, Australian artist and film-maker

Background information
What’s happening in Colombia to Indigenous and Afro-Colombians living in war zones: https://www.theatlantic.com/video/index/561194/colombia-social-leaders/
Last Ethnic Commission meeting with Chomsky where he predicted the PARO uprising: https://fb.watch/7bfQMwfnRD/ 
Chomsky’s first wife Carol is buried in Cauca, Colombia. After she died of cancer, indigenous groups asked if her ashes could be scattered in a protected nature reserve. https://colombiasupport.net/topics/carol-chomsky-forest/