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In a Collaborative Project with the Business & Human Rights Resource Center, Dejusticia Launched an Advocacy Project on Coal in the Global South, which Continues
In this project, we examined coal in four countries -- India, Colombia, South Africa, and Egypt --through a human rights lens. We focus on the Global South, where coal use and production are increasing despite the opposite trend in much of the Global North.
We presented a report, a documentary and a blog series as we contributed to a greater understanding of the coal industry and how countries can better articulate their COP 21 commitments after Paris.
Now in its fifth year, Dejusticia's Global Action-Research Workshop seeks to ensure that the new generation of Global South human rights advocates has a strong voice in international discussions.
An important challenge for these young advocates is how to increase their influence in international human rights debates. High quality research coming from the Global South on human rights issues is critically important.
In recognition of this, and of the need for young advocates to build research and writing skills to address pressing problems in their respective countries, Dejusticia holds an annual Action-Research Workshop to train young professionals to effectively design, conduct, and write action-oriented research, as well as communicate their findings in diverse formats. Dejusticia provides ongoing mentorship for participants to work on a research project and publication of their design after they return to their home countries.
Accountability of Corporate Actors During Transitional Justice Processes
As part of a broader project on the accountability of corporate actors during transitional processes, Dejusticia, along with partner organizations, intervened in the the 2nd Session of Open-ended Intergovernmental Working Group on Transnational Corporations and Human Rights.Dejusticia, as an organization with ECOSOC consultative status, presented an oral intervention during the second panel of the session, calling attention to the special conditions of societies living in the context of conflict or undergoing a transition process. These societies have special conditions as they demand accountability from economic actors that have cooperated or assisted in the violation of human rights during armed conflict. Thus, Dejusticia requested that the Working Group consider specific provisions that take into account the needs of these societies to prosecute corporate complicity with conflict actors.
A transcript of our intervention can be found here.
This project was carried out principally by our Transitional Justice team.
