FAIT Committee Report
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WITNESS IN COLOMBIA
Alcatel CID
Pat Ostaszewski, Director
Andes University
Arleene Tickner, Center for International Studies
ASFADDES — Association of Family Members of Detained and Disappeared
Rocio Bautista
Gloria Herney Galindez, President
ASOCOFLORES — Colombian Flower Exporters Association
Ana Cristina Bueno
"Battallón Nueva-Grenada"
Colonel Lucio Javier Latorre Rojas, Commander of the Nueva Grenada (Army) Battallion, Barrancabermeja
Canada-Colombia Chamber of Commerce (CCCC)
Graciela Lemos, Executive Secretary
Fernando Suescún, President
Canadian Red Cross
Lilly Montano, Delegate
"Centro Docente Belen"
Rosalba Jiménez, Director
Carmen Cecilia Ortiz Florez
CIDA — Canadian International Development Agency
Barbara Karpinski, Program Manager
CINEP — Research and Education Centre
Father Alejandro Angulo, Director
William Bastidas, Investigator of Human Rights
Javier Giraldo, Coordinator of Human Rights data banks
CODHES — Human Rights Consultancy
Moisés Molano
Jorge Rojas
"Colectivo De Abogados" — Lawyers Collective
Luis Guillermo Pérez, Human rights lawyer
Alirio Uribe, Human rights lawyer
Reinaldo Villalba, President
Colombian Ambassador to Canada
Her Excellency Fanny Kertzman
"Comisión Colombiana de Juristas" — Colombian Commission of Jurists
Gustavo Gallón, Director
"Comision de Conciliacion Nacional" — National Reconciliation Commission
Alvaro Campos
"Consorcio de Desarrollo y Paz del Magdalena Medio" — Development and Peace for the Magdalena
Father Francisco de Roux
CREDHOS — Regional Committee of Human Rights Defenders
Francisco Campo
Regulo Madero, President
CSPP — Committee for Solidarity with Political Prisoners
Augustin Jiménez, President
CUT — Association of Trade Unions
"Defensoria Del Pueblo" — Human Rights OmbudsmanPatricia Buriticá
Miguel Antonio Caro, President
Eberto Díaz Montes
Eduardo Cifuentes
Embera Katío Representatives from the Alto Sinú
"Equipos Cristianos De Acción Por La Paz" — Christian Peacemaker TeamsMartha Domicó
Wilson Domicó
Maria Alicia Vergara
William Payne
Pierre Shantz
Externado University of Colombia
Maria Teresa Aya
Laura Gil
FECODE — Union of Education Workers
Gloria Ines Ramirez
Tarcisio Rivera
FEDECAFE — National Coffee Growers Association
Maria Fernanda Concha Escobar
Emilio Echeverry
Martha Moreno
FESCOL — Fondation Friedrich Ebert of Colombia
Angie Stucker
"G & M de Colombia Abogados" — Gay and Lesbian Rights
German Humberto Rincón Perfetti
ILSA — Latin American Alternative Legal Services
Jesús Anibal Suárez
International Committee of the Red Cross
Kathleen Graf
Jan Roemer
Joint Task Force — South, Tres Esquinas
Brigadier-General Roberto Pizarro Martinéz, Commander
"JUSTICIA Y PAZ" — Justice and Peace
Reinaldo Jaimes
Padre Carlos Julio Rozzo
Mayor of Barrancabermeja
Dr. Julio Cesar Ardila
MEMBERS OF CONGRESS:
"SENADO DEL REPUBLICA"
Piedad Córdoba, Human Rights Committee, Senate
Flora Sierra de Lara, Senator
Dieb Maloof, Chairman of Human Rights Committee, Senate
Rafael Orduz, Human Rights Committee, Senate
"CAMARA DE REPRESENTANTES"
Pompilio Avendaño, Human Rights Committee, Congressman
Jorge Gómez Celis, Chairman Human Rights Committee, Congressman
Rafael Guzmán Navarro, Human Rights Committee, Congressman
Gustavo Petro, Congressman
Miguel Angel Zambrano
MINGA
Martha Cecilia Monroy
All these organizations c/o MINGA:
"ASOPRICOR — Asociación Pequeños Productores Agrícolas" (Association of Small Agricultural Producers)
Maria Gilma Reyes
"CRIC — CONSEJO REGIONAL INDÍGENA DEL CAUCA" (Regional Indigenous Council of Cauca)
Ezequiel Vitona
"HERMANAMIENTO MEDELLÍN" (Brotherhood Medellín) — 20 Organizations for Peace
Javier Marqués
"PCN — PROCESO COMUNIDADES NEGRAS" (Process for Black Communities)
Carlos Rosero
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Paul de Bedout, Advisor to the Vice- Minister
Clemencia Forero, Vice-Minister
Ministry of the Interior, Human Rights Office
Marcela Bravo, Director of Indigenous Issues
Rafael Bustamante, Director of Human Rights Office
German Sánchez, Coordinator of Prevention in Human Rights
National University of Colombia
Alejo Vargas
Nortel Networks de Colombia S.A.
Luis Alberto Bocanegra, President
Nexen Petroleum Colombia LTDA
Richard Jensen, President
Ed Mastel
Jean-Yves Pineault
OCENSA — Central Pipelines S.A.
John Gerez, Vice-President of Operations
Fernando Larotta, President
OIM
Fernando Puerto
ONIC — Umbrella Organization of Indigenous Groups
Fernando Castrillon, "Asesor"
Armando Valbuena, President
"Organización Popular Femenina" — Popular Women’s Organization
Matilde Vargas
"País Libre" / Free Country
David Buitrago, Legal Director
Olga Lucia Gómes, Psychology Director
Luis Alfonso Manrique, Legal Representative
Peace Brigades International
Peter Clark
"Planeta Paz" — Peace Planet
Astrid Flores
Gregorio Mesa
Daniel Garcia Peña
Carlos Salgado
"Pontificia Universidad Javeriana" — Javeriana University
Ernesto Borda, Director of Human Rights Institute
Padre Gabriel Izquierdo, Director of Think-Tank Institute
President of the Republic
Andres Pastrana
Project Counselling Services
Betty Pedraza
"Proyecto de Produccion y commercializacíon de zapatos" / Shoe Production and Commercialization Project
Aurora Solano, Manager of the Project
Redepaz — Network of Peace
Ana Teresa Bernal, National Coordinator
Fernando Hernández
Luis Emil Sanabria
Luis Sandoval
Alvaro Villarraga
"Renacer" — Rebirth
Luz Stella Cárdenas, Director
Timothy Ross, Volunteer
Representatives from Embassies
Brazil, France, Japan, Norway, Sweden, United Kingdom, United States and Venezuela
"Servicio Jesuita A Refugiados"
Ledys Bohórquez
Sintraminercol Miner’s Union
Francisco Ramírez Cuellar, President
Talisman Energy
Pedro A. Martinez Uribe, General Director
United Nations High Commission for Refugees
Carmen Garcia
Leila Lima
Antonio Menéndez
Cecilia Stromblat
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in Colombia
Amerigo Incalcaterra, Deputy Director
Anders Kompass, Director
United Nations Office for Drug Control and Crime Prevention
Klaus Nyholm
U.S.O. Nal — National Worker’s Trade Union
Alirio Rueda Gómez
USO — Oil Worker’s Union
Hernando Hernandez, President
World Vision
Samuel Albarracin, Emergency and Rehabilitation Coordinator