Mexico consumes 12 percent of the global volume of bottled water, highlighting the failures of the country’s water supply system and the violation of...read more
Freshwater Sources, Human Rights, Indigenous Rights, Large Dams | 16 March 2016
“The river is dead!” exclaimed Raimundo as we navigated in his motorboat from Altamira toward the big bend of the Xingu River. From my perch in...read more
On March 3, Berta Cáceres, an indigenous rights defender in Honduras, was assassinated. As a leader of COPINH , Berta was fighting against the...read more
By Rodrigo da Costa Sales, AIDA attorney “What do you think of La Oroya?” a local resident asked me the first time we met. Honestly, I wasn’t quite...read more
Freshwater Sources, Human Rights | 27 January 2016
Ciénaga Grande de Santa Marta, the largest and most productive coastal wetland in Colombia, covers 45,000 hectares. At the confluence of the...read more
Four years after civil society organizations filed their original petition, the Commission opens the case, asking the Brazilian government to respond to allegations of human rights violations stemming from the hydroelectric project under construction in the Brazilian Amazon.read more
Accountability and Transparency, Climate Change, Human Rights | 5 January 2016
by Astrid Puentes Riaño This blog was produced in collaboration with Andrea Rodriguez, AIDA’s lead climate change attorney. During the Paris climate...read more
By María José Veramendi Villa, AIDA senior attorney, and Camila Bustos, Nivela lead researcher A few days before the beginning of the climate...read more
Human Rights, Indigenous Rights | 25 November 2015
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
