EIGHTH ORDER
THE ATRATO IS LIFE
TIMELINE
Presentation of toxicological and epidemiological studies project
The Ministry of Health submits to Colciencias a project for toxicological and epidemiological studies.
Presentation of the study protocol
Presentation of the study protocol by the Ministry of Health, INS (Instituto Nacional de Salud), the Ministry of Environment, CODECHOCÓ, and CORPOURABÁ to the advisory entities: Instituto Humboldt, the Universities of Antioquia and Cartagena, the Instituto de Investigaciones Ambientales del Pacífico, and WWF Colombia.
Selection of the Universidad de Córdoba to carry out the studies
The Universidad de Córdoba was selected to carry out the studies.
Sampling
Collection of blood and hair samples from people throughout several municipalities in the watershed.
Results analysis
Analysis process of sample results by the University of Córdoba.
Review of the battery of environmental indicators
Meeting between CCGA and the Ministry of Environment to review the battery of environmental indicators.
Study of Heavy Metals in Water Bodies
Corpourabá and Codechocó signed a convention within the framework of orders 5 and 8 with the objectives of advancing the design of a network to monitor the quality of the Atrato River and evaluate the concentration of heavy metals present in water resources and sediments.
Results delivery Agreements
Meeting CCGA and entities liable for the Order to agree process of delivery, education on prevention, and attention route.
Delivery of individual results
Delivery of laboratory results to individuals by the Universidad de Córdoba and the Health Secretariats.
Presentation of the environmental indicators baseline
By the Ministry of Environment to evaluate changes in the conditions of the Atrato River watershed in the future.
Convention No. 705
Entered into between the Fondo Colombia en Paz and the Universidad de Córdoba to provide baseline information for some indicators on the Quito River.
Legal document (oficio in spanish) Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation
According to the report of the Ministry of Science to the Monitoring Committee, Agreement 849 of 2018, is currently finalized and in the phase of remedying the observations made to the final report submitted by the executing entity (Universidad de Córdoba).
Invited columnists: Viviana Gonzáles and Rodrigo Rogelis, members of the Centro Sociojurídico para la Defensa Territorial Siembra, legal attorneys of the petitioners of the judgment T-622 of the Atrato River.
In order to guarantee the protection and decontamination of the Atrato River, in Chocó, Colombia, the judges of the Constitutional Court declared it a “subject of right”. Six years after the judgment, there is still a lot to do. This is a collective work with the journalist Marie Eve Detoeuf, from “Le Monde”.
The Guardians of Atrato, along with the Centro Sociojurídico Siembra, will submit next Thursday, November 3rd, a petition to the Constitutional Court for the fifth anniversary of the Judgment T-622, the first to acknowledge a River a subject of rights. In the text, the status of the implementation of the judgment is identified, and even though it has progressed, it has not been fully fulfilled.
“The judgment T-622 of the Constitutional Court? Everybody here knows it”, says José Adán Palacios, while he charges his boat on the pier of Quibdó. José Adán, who is from Bojayá, transports passengers and merchandise, and knows better than anyone this majestic River and its watersheds. “But the judgment has not changed a thing; the contamination carries on, whether it is due to the mining, deforestation, or trash”, the boatman sighs.