COLOMBIA

Special Decisions Re: Reporting, Including Urgent Action Procedure

CERD, A/65/18 (2010)

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Chapter II

PREVENTION OF RACIAL DISCRIMINATION, INCLUDING EARLY WARNING AND URGENT ACTION PROCEDURES

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15. During the reporting period, the Committee also considered a number of situations under its early warning and urgent action procedure, including in particular the following.

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26. After having received reports alleging the reactivation of the Urra II Dam project within ancestral lands of the Embera Katio people residing in the Upper Sinu River in Colombia, the Committee considered this matter at its seventy-seventh session and requested the Government to provide information on these issues by 31 January 2011.

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