Huffington Post article on Máxima Acuña
The Huffington Post has published an article on the case of Máxima Acuña:
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Gold threat to tropical forests
The scientific journal Environmental Research Letters has published “Global demand for gold is another threat for tropical forests” by Nora Alvarez and Mitchell Aide. Using advanced land-mapping techniques, they analysed changes in forest cover at gold-mining sites in tropical moist forests of South America. Gold mining causes significant alteration to …
UN Forum on Business and Human Rights
On the 3 December 2014, LAMMP presented a session at the annual UN Forum on Business and Human Rights in Geneva.
UN Forum in Geneva
The 2014 United Nations Forum on Business and Human Rights is being held in Geneva from 1st to 3rd of December.
Press release: visit to UN in Geneva
A delegation of rural and indigenous women from Peru, Guatemala and El Salvador will denounce human rights violations committed by both states and the extractive industry at the UN Forum on Business and Human Rights, 1-3 December in Geneva.
Citizens take on mining firms
According to the Independent newspaper, El Salvador (Central America’s smallest country) may be becoming the anti-mining capital of the world.
Mining sector needs greater transparency and accountability
More must be done to improve the social and environmental performance, transparency and reputation of UK-registered mining companies.
Stunning photographs of indigenous women activists
Stunning portraits of indigenous women activists fighting oil exploration in the Amazon from Felipe Jacome’s Amazon: Guardians of Life are shown on the website of the Washington Post.
Important study from European Parliament
The Policy Department of the Directorate-General for External Policies of the European Parliament has commissioned a report into human rights violations worldwide against indigenous peoples by the extractive industries.
Declaration from the People’s Summit in Cajamarca
“It is essential to reform our political system and laws which currently back this economic model. One of the hardest and most difficult manifestations of this model is the criminalization of the protest and the repression by the state-owned forces put at the service of the companies, which has …