Posts Tagged ‘Industrias extractivas’
Coal Is Not in Decline; It Is Thriving in the South
The Global North may be enforcing strict limitations on coal to curb their emissions at home, but somebody else is eating it up.
Framing Climate Change as a Human Rights Issue
States have the responsibility of protecting human rights violations that arise not only from climate impacts, but from actions taken to mitigate emissions or adapt to climate change.
Read MoreIllegally Mining Human Rights for Gold
Even though the price of gold has now reached its lowest level in the last five years, gold price increased steadily between 2000 and 2012. This increase produced a worldwide growth in mining activities, including illegal gold mining, which has become an unleashed monster for human rights.
Read MoreWhere Are Taxes in Human Rights?
How are taxes connected to human rights or how should they be? Why should human rights researchers and activists in the Global South care about taxes?
Read MorePeru’s Two Faces
Peru has one face for the international community in the COP 20 and another that its citizens see. Analysis by Dejusticia from Lima.
Read MoreIntervention in the Case of Belo Monte
The Inter-American Association for Environmental Defense (AIDA), the Center for the Study of Law, Justice and Society (DEJUSTICIA), the Socio-Environmental Institute (ISA), The Yudjá Mïratu da Volta Grande do Xingu Indigenous Association (AYMÏX) and the Indigenous Missionary Council (CIMI) presented before the Supreme Federal Court of Brazil written memo that shows the illegality of the Congressional permit for the Belo Monte dam.
Read MoreIntervention in the request for annulment of decision T-769/09
projects (Mandé Norte) in indigenous and Afro-Colombian collective territories until affected communities were consulted.
Read MoreThe Guardianship Reform: Adjust or dismantle?
This article debates the three large controversies stirred up by the guardianship reform. (1) It asks in what measure guardianship has been a factor of congestion and what to do with the possible congestion that it has caused. (2) It asks in what way legal action has caused legal insecurity and has affected the court. (3) Finally it asks whether or not reform is necessary for maintaining guardianship for social rights. The article analyzes these three points and tries to review the situation and the terms of debate in respect to each issue in order to offer perspectives about a solution.
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