Organisations supporting the Global Day for Darfur include Waging Peace:
Waging Peace campaigns against British support
for dictators. Where there is currently
inadequate pressure regarding specific countries,
we lobby decision-makers to change diplomatic and
corporate relationships with unsavoury regimes.
From the Waging Peace website:
TESS FINCH-LEES
Director, is an anti-discrimination specialist
and social commentator. She has lived and
worked overseas and speaks Spanish and French.
Tess publishes regularly in the press including:
The Telegraph, The Financial Times, The Irish
Times, The Voice and The Guardian. At Waging
Peace Tess is responsible for, and has
successfully led, a number of high profile media
campaigns in relation to Darfur. As Director of
The Global Effectiveness Group, Tess frequently
chairs and presents at international Diversity
and Corporate Social Responsibility conferences.
She has advised organizations such as: BP,
Barclays and The Royal Mail. Tess has an MSc in Organisational Behaviour.
From the Global Effectiveness Network website:
Tess Finch-Lees is Irish and has lived and worked
in the UK, Colombia, and France. She speaks
English, Spanish, and French and has an MSc in
Organisational Behaviour from the University of London.
Whilst in the UK , Tess developed team building
workshops, as well as workshops in stress
management, assertiveness for women, and managing
conflict. In Colombia she worked as an
organisational consultant for BP Exploration,
where she designed and implemented programmes on
multi-cultural teamwork, as well as providing
workshops on cultural adaptation for Colombian
employees in preparation for expatriation. Tess
also acted as a strategic advisor to Diageo PLC
and was the Andean region representative for
Saville & Holdsworth Ltd in South America. More
recently, she has led the design and development
of a Diversity Leadership Questionnaire which
was successfully piloted for a major
pharmaceutical client and which has become a
widely used and respected tool. As part of her
ongoing work with FTSE 100 companies, Tess
provides coaching and strategic support at board
level and has extensive experience of project and people management.
Until recently Tess managed the Global Diversity
Network, a knowledge-sharing forum for global
heads of diversity including Barclays, BP, Cable
and Wireless, Dow Chemicals, Hewlett Packard,
Kodak, the Philip Morris Company, & Shell.
The Independent (London)
June 18, 2005, Saturday
SECTION: First Edition; NEWS
COLOMBIAN OIL PIPELINE: FARMERS TERRIFIED OUT OF
THEIR HOMES TO SUE BP FOR £15M
BY ROBERT VERKAIK
Martin Day, right, is acting for farmers who say
the pipeline has brought them destitution and, in
some cases, eviction by paramilitaries
BP is facing a £15m compensation claim from a
group of Colombian farmers who say that the
British oil company took advantage of a regime of
terror by government paramilitaries to profit
from the construction of a 450-mile pipeline.
In what will be a landmark human rights case in
the UK, the farmers allege that the pipeline
destroyed their land and forced them into destitution.
A British law firm representing the farmers has
written to BP, accusing the company of benefiting
from harassment and intimidation meted out by
Colombian paramilitaries employed by the government to guard the pipeline.
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