For 18 years, as co-executive director of AIDA, Puentes Riaño led efforts across Latin America to uphold the right to a healthy environment and protect affected communities from environmental harms.
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The maritorio is a concept and also a way of inhabiting and understanding the world. It evokes the image of "territory", but seen from and in the sea.
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Our long-fought victory before the Inter-American Court sets important precedents for all communities seeking environmental justice in the Americas.
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The Alliance for Andean Wetlands celebrates this achievement of the Atacameños del Altiplano Indigenous Community and the Asamblea PUCARA (Pueblos Catamarqueños en Resistencia y Autodeterminación).
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The Court found Peru responsible for violating the rights of residents of La Oroya, who have been exposed to unsafe levels of toxic contamination for generations.
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The Green Climate Fund terminated a forestry project because the developers failed to comply with the Fund's policies and procedures on socio-environmental safeguards.
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Since 2015, this region has been the target of large extractive projects that threaten the livelihoods and physical and cultural survival of traditional peoples and communities.
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It is essential that governments, businesses and citizens work as a team to protect forests and promote a culture that cares for the environment and all life.
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Lithium mining is threatening South America's salt flats, affecting local water availability and threatening the survival of communities and species living around these fragile ecosystems.
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Local communities denounce that the area is highly affected by salmon farming, which is failing to comply with environmental regulations.
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