A Dangerous Business: Advocating against environmental degradation and land rights violations - Intro
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- Speaker(s):
- James Anaya, UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
- Event date:
- Monday 31 October 2011
- Description
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A conference by Peace Brigades International, UK Section. Supported by the Institute for the Study of the Americas.
31 October 2011.
Indigenous and traditional farming communities pay a high price for taking a stand against large-scale extractive, agribusiness, and development projects threatening their land.
Repressive tactics by state and non-state actors work to silence dissent and allow profitable business ventures to proceed.
Despite international mechanisms designed to protect these communities, they continue to suffer land rights violations and environmental degradation, and their advocates continue to be threatened and attacked.
What more can governments, business, international institutions, and civil society do to make these protection mechanisms more effective?
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