Mining and water: social articulation, advocacy & corporate accountability around Brazil's Brumadinho tailings dam disaster

The Transformative Water Pact (TWP) is an innovative framework for water governance. It consolidates vital principles and an action framework to guide decision-making toward transformative change in water management. This is achieved through an alternative vision based on principles of environmental justice, equity, and water stewardship.

This webinar series aims to facilitate a dialogue among the TWP co-authors and their allies, focusing on global South countries' water governance and justice challenges. The goal is to highlight the impact of sharing valuable global experiences in advocacy, litigation, local solutions, campaigning, and research that have contributed to advancing the protection of the right to water worldwide.

In this first session, we will explored - through the lens of the Transformative Water Pact - various strategies of resistance and defense that local communities and civil society have developed to facilitate the conservation of protected areas and ensure access to justice and truth for the victims of the tragedy caused by the failure of an iron mine tailings dam in Brumadinho, Brazil.

PANEL

• Murtah Shannon, Inclusive Water Governance Officer at Both ENDS.
• Maria Teresa Corujo Viana, member of the Movimento pela Preservação da Serra do Gandarela.
• Makota Cassia Kidoialê, founder of Kilombo Manzo.
• Carolina de Moura Campos, project coordinator at Instituto Cordilheira.

Moderation: Jorge Lu Palencia, attorney with Interamerican Association for Environmental Defense (AIDA).

recording (in spanish/portuguese)