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Climate Change, Freshwater Sources, Human Rights, Mining | 13 November 2024

Organizations and communities alert to human rights impacts of mineral extraction for the energy transition

A public hearing before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights will focus on the impact of extractive operations for transition minerals like lithium and copper on communities in Latin America.read more

Climate Change, Freshwater Sources, Indigenous Rights, Mining | 30 October 2024

Declaration for the protection of the páramos and montane forests of the Tropical Andes

Declaration of civil society organizations gathered at the 16th meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP16) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in Cali, Colombia.read more

Climate Change, Freshwater Sources, Indigenous Rights, Mining, Public Participation | 21 October 2024

Alliance for Andean Wetlands

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Freshwater Sources, Human Rights, Indigenous Rights, Mining | 16 October 2024

COP16: To conserve biodiversity, governments must respect indigenous and local knowledge

The energy transition model of the global north implies irreversible impacts for the Andean wetlands and the communities that inhabit them, whose territories overlap with lithium reserves.read more

Freshwater Sources, Human Rights, Indigenous Rights, Mining | 24 September 2024

AIDA petitions Argentine court for protection of human rights in lithium mining case

We ask the Court of Justice of Catamarca to cancel the permits for two mining projects to avoid irreversible environmental impacts on the territory of the Salar del Hombre Muerto.read more

Freshwater Sources, Indigenous Rights, Mining | 12 September 2024

UN takes major step toward prioritizing justice regarding transition minerals

The panel recognizes the complexity of the transition and the inequality between the countries of the global south, which host the minerals, and those of the north, that need them.read more

Freshwater Sources, Mining, Toxic Pollution | 10 September 2024

Session 1 of the Transformative Global Experiences on Water Governance Webinar Series

We explored various strategies of resistance and defense following the tragedy caused by the failure of an iron mine tailings dam in Brumadinho, Brazil.read more

Climate Change, Freshwater Sources, Human Rights, Indigenous Rights, Mining, Public Participation | 18 July 2024

The Amazon: The complexities and challenges of its protection

An assessment of the eleventh version of the Pan-Amazonian Social Forum regarding the main agreements, the gaps for their implementation and what is missing to guarantee the protection of the Amazon.read more

Human Rights, Mining, Toxic Pollution | 20 June 2024

La Oroya v. Peru: Historic precedent on human rights and the environment

The Inter-American Court of Human Rights set an important precedent for state oversight of industrial pollution.read more

Human Rights, Mining, Toxic Pollution | 24 May 2024

Warning of increased contamination in La Oroya and slow progress by the State to comply with the Inter-American Court ruling

The State's progress in implementing the international court's ruling has been slow and insufficient. Meanwhile, a high level of sulphur dioxide has recently been registered in the Andean city.read more

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