Ms Mary Lawlor:

Some 70% of killings worldwide are in the context of land, environment and indigenous people's rights. Regarding Irish companies, without mentioning any names, I was invited to speak to the group of companies that were involved in the Cerrejón mine in Colombia, which I did. They were pleased with themselves. I was quite shocked and very disturbed that their human rights policy, which they were trumpeting, involved referring victims or human rights defenders who were victims to the local authorities, the local police, the very people who were involved with the companies in the abuse of the community's rights. There is an Irish company involved with that.