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Beyond Good Business: Advocating for women’s rights in the context of natural resource extraction and the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights

Link to flyer here: BEYOND GOOD BUSINESS SAVE THE DATE The Latin American Mining Monitoring Programme (LAMMP) has the pleasure to invite you to its upcoming conference: BEYOND GOOD BUSINESS: Advocating for women’s rights in the context of natural resource extraction and the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human …

Cuenca to Washington

Later this week, María Francisca Zhagüi Chuchuca will travel with LAMMP to the US in order to present the situation in Ecuador to the Inter American Commission on Human Rights and other organisations in Washington. We have translated one of the documents she will be taking with her into English. …

Global Indigenous Women’s Caucus

The Global Indigenous Women’s Caucus will be held on Friday 4th May in New York, and LAMMP will be there. The Global Indigenous Women’s Caucus - Conclave Global Para Las Mujeres IndígenasCalling all Indigenous Women of the World engaged in international diplomacy, advocacy and the advancement of the rights of …

Interview with ADITAL

The president of the Frente de Mujeres Defensoras de la Pachamama has been interviewed by the news agency ADITAL about the competitions for young students from Cuenca and Gualaquiza (Ecuador) which are beng organised for Earth Day on April 22nd. Translation of extracts from the interview (by Diana Mills of …

International Women’s Day in Ecuador

For March 8th, two of LAMMP’s groups in Ecuador (Defenders of Mother Earth and Guardians of Amazonia) organised an event in the Calderón Park in Cuenca. With posters and photographs, the women showed the true impact of mining on their communities. They also showed how planned developments would affect the …

UN High Commissioner visits Guatemala

The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, has visited Totonicapán in western Guatemala. She was presented with a document setting out the concerns about the violations of individual and collective human rights of indigenous people in Guatemala. She was also given a copy of the legal action …

Mining in London

LAMMP will be speaking at an important event hosted by the London Mining Network at Westminster to launch a report on the role of the city in mining. UK Listed Mining Companies and the Case for Stricter Oversight Wednesday 7 March, 11am-12 noon, Room S, Portcullis House, Westminster, London SW1 …

Working group at UN

LAMMP attended the introductory exchange between stakeholders and the United Nations’ Working Group on the issue of human rihgts and transnational corporations and other business enterprises, which was held at the Palais des Nations, Geneva on the 20th January 2012. Project Director, Ms. Glevys Rondón submitted the following LAMMP works …

CSR seminar in Santiago

Gecamin has organised the first international seminar on social responsibility in mining, in Chile, to promote an exchange of knowledge and ideas between industry practitioners and researchers working in the field of mining and social responsibility. Details can be found on their website.