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Colombian environmental and human rights defender to give talk in city

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Colombian environmental and human rights defender to give talk in city

Galway Bay fm newsroom- A Colombian anti-mining activist will visit the city tomorrow as part of Latin American Week.

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Jakeline Romero Epiayu, an indigenous Colombian environmental and human rights defender is to speak at an event co-hosted by the Irish Centre for Human Rights and Latin America Solidarity Centre.

Jakeline has been campaigning against the extraction activities of the Cerrejón coal mine in Columbia for years.

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The coal is exported worldwide, including to Ireland - despite widespread reports of human rights abuses.

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According to LARC, the ESB has imported over 90 percent of its coal from the mine.

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