Human Rights in Colombia

Floro Tunubala is the first indigenous leader ever to hold a post of Governor in Colombia. He worked to develop proposals for manual eradication of coca and plans for alternative social and economic development with 6 governors in southern Colombiawhose departments were targeted for aerial fumigation inthe US government-funded Plan Colombia. He will speak on economic development issues and about communities organizing to resist involvement in armed conflict.

Ludivia Giraldo Diaz, a community social psychologist from Cali, Colombia, is actively engaged in human rights work addressing the phenomenon of displacement. She is knowledgeable on women's and environmental dimensions of citizen participation in urban and rural areas. From 1993 to 2000 she worked with MINGA:Association for Alternative Social Development, a Bogota-based human rights organization with strong regional presence.