The environmental authority granted the project’s operating license, ignoring evidence of noncompliance with conditions necessary to guarantee the life, health and integrity of indigenous and other affected populations.read more
By Astrid Puentes Riaño ( @astridpuentes ) Originally published by IntLawGrrls We humans have caused climate change, a real threat to humanity thus...read more
Part 1 of a 2-Part Series on the Human Rights Situation in La Oroya, Peru. By María José Veramendi Villa Juana [1] is tired. She and her neighbors...read more
Climate Change, Human Rights, Public Participation | 26 September 2015
Across Latin America, and the world, communities are facing the severe effects of a changing climate. As floods destroy ancestral homes, and droughts...read more
In his speech before the United Nations today in New York, Pope Francis argued passionately in defense of the environment, proclaiming that the...read more
The governments of the world are working on the negotiating text of a new global agreement to combat climate change. It will be signed in December,...read more
Climate Change, Human Rights, Toxic Pollution | 24 August 2015
By María José Veramendi Villa, @MaJoVeramendi In Peru, every year around 400 children die of cold. I learned this dramatic figure a few weeks ago...read more
Respectfully we turn to Your Holiness, on the occasion of your upcoming visit to Bolivia, as organizations that protect the environment and human...read more
Freshwater Sources, Human Rights, Indigenous Rights, Large Dams | 29 June 2015
By Flavia Amaral, AIDA attorney As construction of the world’s third-largest hydroelectric dam, Belo Monte , moves forward, social impacts and unrest...read more
For 15 years beginning in 2000, the United States and Colombia sent airplanes to spray toxic pesticides over Colombian coca and poppy fields. The...read more
