[imc-presse] nvitation: Documentary FIGHT NESTLÉ TO THE DEATH and discussion with Alirio Uribe, 27 September 2013

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ADJUNTO: INVITACION EN ESPANOL

 

 

Dear colleagues and friends,

 

we cordially invite you to the screening of

 

“Fight Nestlé to the death”

(Documentary by Swiss Television of February 2013)

and the discussion with Alirio Uribe of the Colombian human rights
organization CAJAR (Colectivo de Abogados José Alvear Restrepo), 

Moderator: Annelen Micus (ECCHR),

on Friday, 27 September 2013 at 6.30 p.m.

in the ECCHR Loft.

The film will be shown in its English version;

the discussion will be held in Spanish with English translation.

 

On 10 September 2005, the Colombian trade unionist Luciano Romero was
brutally stabbed to death by paramilitaries in Valledupar, Cesar, in the
northeastern part of Colombia. Romero had previously been employed for many
years by the Colombian Nestlé-subsidiary Cicolac. The management of the
subsidiary had stigmatized him as a guerrilla fighter; the Swiss management
had not reacted adequately regarding these accusations. Together with the
Colombian trade union SINALTRAINAL and Colombian lawyers, including Alirio
Uribe, on 5 March 2012, ECCHR submitted a
<http://www.ecchr.de/index.php/nestle-518.html> criminal complaint in
Switzerland against the company Nestlé and five of its managers for
negligent homicide by omission.

 

The documentary by
<http://www.rts.ch/dossiers/2013/contre-nestle-jusqu-a-la-mort-notre-dossier
/> Temps Présent (Radio Télévision Suisse) gives an account of the murder of
Luciano Romero as well as his Philippine trade union colleague, Diosdado
Fortuna, who was killed several days later, on 22 September 2005, after a
protest in front of the Nestlé-factory in the Philippines.

 

After the screening, the status of the case in Switzerland will be explained
and its significance in Colombia evaluated. In addition, the responsibility
of transnational corporations acting in weak governance zones will be
discussed.

 

Yours sincerely,

Wolfgang Kaleck

General Secretary

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European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights e.V. (ECCHR)

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D-10961 BERLIN

 

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