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CEN Draft Reports Nestlé Swiss Appeal Over Colombian Trade Unionist Murder Case

This 13 October 2014 CEN draft, headed “Nestle Face Swiss Trial Over Colombian Murder”, reports on efforts by the widow of murdered Colombian trade union activist Luciano Romero to challenge Swiss prosecutors’ refusal to investigate Nestlé over its alleged role in the killing. The story explains that Romero, a former employee of Nestlé subsidiary Cicolac, was tortured and killed by paramilitaries in 2005 before he was due to travel to Europe to testify about Nestlé’s policies at the Permanent People’s Tribunal. It sets out the legal argument by Romero’s widow, her Colombian union Sinaltrainal, the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights, and Swiss lawyers that Nestlé executives should be investigated because they allegedly failed to act despite being aware of death threats and the conduct of local representatives in Colombia. The document is significant because it shows CEN working on a serious international human-rights and corporate-accountability story, not a tabloid or viral item. The draft covers Swiss legal procedure, Colombian paramilitary violence, trade union killings, corporate responsibility, statute-barred prosecution issues, and attempts to use Swiss law to test whether companies could be held responsible for harms linked to overseas subsidiaries. In the wider evidence chain, it helps counter the later reduction of CEN’s work to bizarre viral material by documenting public-interest reporting on a complex cross-border case involving labour rights, corporate responsibility and alleged failures to protect threatened workers.

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