For just under a century, a metal smelter has spewed toxic clouds full of heavy metals over the densely populated city of La Oroya, in the Peruvian...read more
Human Rights, Indigenous Rights | 11 November 2010
On January 23, 2008, the Colombian Constitutional Court declared the Forest Law of 2006 to be unconstitutional and therefore, invalid, because...read more
Climate Change, Human Rights, Indigenous Rights, Large Dams | 17 October 2010
Large dams consistently cause severe, and often irreversible, environmental and social damage. Their construction is also often associated with...read more
Human Rights, Indigenous Rights | 16 September 2010
UPR Report Panama 2010 Ciudad de Panamá, Panamá – Una coalición de catorce organizaciones ambientales y de derechos humanos denunció problemas graves...read more
Climate Change, Human Rights, Indigenous Rights, Large Dams | 19 March 2010
PARA PUBLICACIÓN INMEDIATA: CEMDA, WildCoast, Conselva, Greenpeace, AIDA DENUNCIAN ORGANIZACIONES AMBIENTALES IRREGULARIDADES E IMPACTOS DEL PROYECTO...read more
The purpose of this publication is to promote the use of the Inter-American System of Human Rights for addressing environmental degradation that causes human rights violations.read more
In an effort to compel the Peruvian government to resolve the health crisis in La Oroya, AIDA appealed to the Inter-American Commission on Human...read more
