Edwin Alexis Vergara

Edwin Alexis Vergara, 32, was a member of the Asamblea Sindical de Ingenios La Cabaña -SINTRAINCABAÑA-;

He was a son of Raúl Vergara, also a union leader, a former council member and current president of the same union, who has been threatened on many occasions because of his union work.

Edwin worked as a cane burner on the sugar plantations  in vereda Llano de Tabla, in the municipality of Guachené, North Cauca. At 9PM on the evening of 8 March 2020,

he had finished his day’s work and was having dinner with friends when gunmen drove up on a motorcycle and shot him dead.

The Confederación General de Trabajo –CGT, confirmed that other union members have received threats and expressed concern that these threats were now being carried out.

The union has been working to improve working conditions and in particular has been focused on getting the different unions to work more closely together to give them more leverage with employers. This had not gone down well with the plantation owners.

While 95% of sugar cane workers are unionised in the Cauca, being a union leader is increasingly dangerous given the absence of a strong state presence.

 

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Région:Amériques

Pays:Colombie

Département/Province/Etat:Cauca

Sexe1:Masculin

Age:32

Date de l'assassinat:08/03/2020

Type de travail:Syndicaliste

Organisation :Asamblea Sindical de Ingenios La Cabaña (SINTRAINCABAÑA).

Secteur ou type de droit que défendait le DDH:Droits civils et politiques, Droits économiques, sociaux et culturels:

Détail sur le secteur:Droit du travail, Droits des citoyens, Liberté d'association

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Edwin Alexis Vergara

Edwin Alexis Vergara, 32, was a member of the Asamblea Sindical de Ingenios La Cabaña -SINTRAINCABAÑA.

He was a son of Raúl Vergara, also a union leader, a former council member and current president of the same union, who has been threatened on many occasions because of his union work.

Edwin worked as a cane burner on the sugar plantations  in vereda Llano de Tabla, in the municipality of Guachené, North Cauca.

At 9PM on the evening of 8 March 2020, he had finished his day’s work and was having dinner with friends when gunmen drove up on a motorcycle and shot him dead.

The Confederación General de Trabajo –CGT, confirmed that other union members have received threats and expressed concern that these threats were now being carried out.

The union has been working to improve working conditions and in particular has been focused on getting the different unions to work more closely together to give them more leverage with employers. This had not gone down well with the plantation owners.

While 95% of sugar cane workers are unionised in the Cauca, being a union leader is increasingly dangerous given the absence of a strong state presence.

 

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Si vous souhaitez nous donner un souvenir personnel, merci de nous écrire à: HRDMemorial@frontlinedefenders.org

Région:Amériques

Pays:Colombie

Département/Province/Etat:Cauca

Sexe1:Masculin

Age:32

Date de l'assassinat:08/03/2020

Type de travail:Syndicaliste

Organisation :Asamblea Sindical de Ingenios La Cabaña (SINTRAINCABAÑA).

Secteur ou type de droit que défendait le DDH:Droits civils et politiques, Droits économiques, sociaux et culturels:

Détail sur le secteur:Droit du travail, Droits des citoyens, Liberté d'association

Plus d'informations:Front Line Defenders

1Cette base de données enregistre l'identité sexuelle choisie par une personne. Si elle ne s'identifie pas elle-même comme homme ou femme, elle peut utiliser l'option autre/aucun ou employer le terme IGNB (identité de genre non-binaire).