The ceremony will be held on Thursday, September 27 at the global organization’s headquarters in New York. The Regional Agreement on Access to Information, Public...
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UN experts urge prompt ratification of landmark Latin America and Caribbean environment treaty
UN UN human rights experts welcome the adoption of the landmark Escazú agreement and are now urging States in Latin America and the Caribbean to sign and ratify as...
Americas: states can make history by signing regional environmental treaty
Amnesty International Governments across Latin America and the Caribbean can make history and set new standards for protection of the environment and human rights by...
Report links the expansion of the Colombian airport financed by IDB with the damage to human health
The Inter-American Development Bank’s Independent Consultation and Investigation Mechanism (MICI) released an investigation report confirming that the Bank violated...
Peru’s vast lithium discovery: A risky economic boon?
A vast deposit of hard-rock lithium could bring riches to Peru, but it also poses environmental and societal questions. The megaproject would take place in an...
Escazú Agreement: Be a part of history! Turn your country into a leader in environmental protection
This 27 September 2018 your country will have a historic opportunity: to join the most important human rights and environmental protection agreement in Latin America...
First legally binding instrument on human rights and the environment adopted in Latin America and the Caribbean
UN After four years of intense negotiations, 24 Latin American countries adopted last March a legally binding instrument to implement Principle 10 of the Rio...
Environmental Democracy for sustainable societies: Side event at the 2018 high-level political forum on sustainable development
How GPS And Indigenous Eyes Are Mapping The Amazon Ecosystem
WORLDCRUNCH By Viviana Londoño “Our grandparents knew our territory well, its sacred and productive places, but also the risks we assumed if we did not use resources...
FARC and the Forest: Peace Is Destroying Colombia’s Jungle—and Opening It to Science
Pulitzer Center By Sara Reardon When the government of Colombia and the left-wing guerrilla group Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) signed an agreement in...
Eco Americas: A monthly report on development and the environment in Latin America
March 2018 Vol. 20 – No. 5 Inside Around the region 2 Text for region’s first environmental-rights treaty wins approval 3 Indigenous groups using maps to fight...
The Escazú convention: a historic step forward for enviromental rights in Latin America and the Caribbean
THE CHALLENGE | Violence against environmental defenders is on the rise. In 2017, Global Witness reported almost four environmental defenders were killed each week for...
Call on the States of the region and especially the Colombian State to sign, ratify and implement the Escazú Agreement in a prompt manner.
The undersigned persons and organizations, who participated in the negotiation of the Regional Agreement on Access to Information, Participation and Justice in...
Regressions in the right of access to environmental information, articles 6 and 7 of the regional agreement
By Natalia Gomez. Civil society is extremely disappointed with the regressive nature of the access to information provisions in a region which has some of the strongest...
Why Do Communities Need Legal Rights to Their Land?
All too often, communities do not have secure, clear, and legal rights to own their ancestral land. These legal gaps make it easier for outsiders to claim the land as...
Reducing Inequality in a Turbulent World: Scaling-up strategies to secure indigenous, community, and women’s land rights
OCTOBER 4-5, 2017 Stockholm, Sweden Click here to see the latest version of the program agenda. Learn more about the Innovation Zone or logistics. THE 3RD INTERNATIONAL...
Civil Society of Latin America and the Caribbean demands socio-environmental transparency in the extractive industries
We are representatives of civil society organizations working in Colombia, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Peru, and the Dominican Republic gathered from March...

















