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PROTECTING OUR RIGHT TO A HEALTHY ENVIRONMENT. AIDA is the only regional organization of environmental legal experts who are both from and in Latin America. We use  the power of international law to create sustainable solutions throughout the region.

Person on Rocks People Protecting the right to a healthy Environment Photo: Camilo Thompson
Places Places Safeguarding ecological treasures Photo: Alejandro Olivera
Planet Planet Working for climate justice Photo: Lorenzo J. de Rosenzweig

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Women in Kenya

Blog | 21 November 2024

Session 3 of the 'Transformative Global Experiences on Water Governance' Webinar Series

This third and final session will explore how community organizing, capacity building, and progressive policies can improve sustainable water conservation in Kenya.Read More

Worker performing harvesting salt on the salt lake Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia

Press Releases | 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

Fauna in the Atacama Desert, Chile.

Press Releases | 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

Ciénaga Grande de Santa Marta in Colombia

Blog | 9 October 2024

Session 1 of the 2024 GCF Watch International Webinar Series

Relevant CSO representatives discussed the architecture of financial mechanisms under the UNFCCC, with the GCF at the center, exploring the opportunities for civil society engagement in each.Read More

Mendoza, Argentina

Press Releases | 3 October 2024

Organizations concerned by Mendoza Supreme Court rejecting their Participation while allowing that of the oil industry in litigation over fracking

The Mendoza Supreme Court’s differential treatment occurred in a lawsuit over the authorization of fracking, or hydraulic fracturing, for extracting oil and gas from the Vaca Muerta formation.Read More

Salar del Hombre Muerto, Argentina

Press Releases | 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

When the violation of the rights of Amazonian peoples in Brazil receives no response nationally, these communities find in AIDA a voice in the Americas.

Felicio Pontes, Attorney, Federal Public Ministry, Brazil

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