Conclusions of the Caravan Rubiales Humanitarian Crisis

Emphasize physical participation of fifty-four organizations representing different unions, displaced workers, pensioners, groups of lawyers, human rights defenders, environmentalists, farmers, students, youth groups, women, indigenous groups and international organizations, likewise for fraternal way a hundred national and international organizations sent their messages of solidarity and monitoring the development of this first action is the beginning of the national and international campaign OIL, PEACE AND PROGRESS FOR THE NATION.

The participants in humanitarian action find the exploitation of the Rubiales oil field and Quifa that makes the Canadian multinational PACIFIC ENERGY RUBIALES - PRE and Ecopetrol have generated dire consequences against about 14,000 employees working in different work fronts, especially those at the service of contractors and subcontractors against urban communities and rural municipality of Puerto Gaitan, peasants, indigenous reserves and the environment.

Out as key human rights violated by act or omission of the multinational and the Colombian state PRE:

1. Displacement of ancestral lands to indigenous communities and farmers.

2. Forced change of vocation of the territory, from being a large pantry and livestock farming to mining area - energy.

3. Permanent contamination of estuarine ecosystems, morichales, streams, creeks, rivers, wetlands and water sources, among others.

4. Confinement of the communities unexplored areas and humiliating submission to controls and restrictions on freedom of locomotion.

5. Extreme militarization of social life, community and labor, as well as the installation of military garrisons in the midst of population centers, industrial areas and bedroom areas, against the IHL principles of distinction.

6. Labor exclusion of the existing workforce in the community and lack of training programs for arts and crafts of the oil industry.

7. On days with strenuous labor exploitation, garbage contracts, harassment, unfair dismissal, lack of stability enhanced welfare and poor conditions of precarious employment.

8. Denial of sustainable development and sustainable within the framework of joint liability, to the communities that survive and coexist with the oil industry, already suffering from the satisfaction of most basic needs such as: electrical service, water, house gas, sanitation, paved access roads, health services, housing and education.

9. Violation of international norms such as the Kyoto Protocol and the Conventions of the International Labour Organisation - ILO. 10. Impediment to free association, as many workers who have joined the Workers' Trade Union, have been unfairly dismissed or suspended without just cause their contracts. This violates ILO Conventions 87 and 98 of the ILO.

11. Wrongful dismissal of disabled workers, without recognizing the accidents that some of them have been left with permanent disability.

12. Ill-treatment of many supervisors and managers of contractors, subjecting workers to the humiliation advantage of the need of employment.

13. Will also find hundreds of affiliate loving workers voluntarily and publicly to the Workers' Trade Union and to support their just petitions, rejecting an alleged agreement between the multinational PRE and two (2) unknown unions. The assemblies nourished workers ratified the complaints from the start of labor dispute has been public knowledge.

Besides the above rights, in the distance traveled during the four days of the process could prove these allegations with film records among other things clearly reveal how the government of Colombia in its different management levels and have licensed to Ecopetrol that multinationals Pacific Rubiales Energy, Petroleum and Pipeline Target Plains ODL, building concentration camps with huge security gates and fences with coils where the owners of farms, farmers and indigenous people must ask permission to enter their own land.

Similarly, members of the caravan we saw social injustice and extreme poverty of the vast majority of people in the villages of Rubiales, Rubiales New, St. Helena, El Porvenir and Puerto Triunfo, among others, in spite live in the area of ​​highest oil production in Colombia.

The results of this exercise accompaniment has been and will be made aware of the sister organizations nationally and internationally. We consider it essential and urgent for the defense of national sovereignty, territorial communities, social rights, labor and trade union freedoms, the following actions:

 Forward-day withdrawal within and outside the country against the policies of the multinationals that exploit energy resources in Colombia and in this case against RUBIALES PACIFIC ENERGY-PRE.

 Demand the Colombian State the full exercise of national sovereignty and territory of the special protection of their communities and the Colombian worker.

 Demand the Colombian State cease displacement of indigenous communities and carry out consultation before intervening in their ancestral territories.

 Demand the Colombian State, Pacific Rubiales and Ecopetrol immediately stop the discharges, spills, emissions and deposition of pollutant loads to the environment, as well as restore and compensate for environmental damage and ecological debt.

 Demand the Colombian State, Pacific Rubiales and Ecopetrol immediately suspend mode unstable contracts, provide conditions for welfare and dignity in

 The development of their employment contracts, linking the local workforce and pay according to productivity and wealth of the oil industry.

 Demand the Colombian State, Pacific Rubiales and Ecopetrol urgent attention and priority to the population of injured workers, disabled or occupational health problems who have worked in Rubiales and Quifa.

 Making political and legal enforceability, both national and international recruitment fees, association, freedom and trade union representation, plus the suspension immediately, the companies, all persecution and ordering the reinstatement of workers laid off.

Original Signed: Original Signed Tarcisio Mora Godoy President Rodolfo Vecino USE CUT President

Puerto Gaitan - Meta October 14, 2011.

NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS PARTICIPATING IN THE CARAVAN IN THE HUMANITARIAN ACTION FIELD GOAL-COLOMBIA RUBIALES