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Land and environmental rights
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Date: Tuesday 3rd December 2013 Time: from 1.30 to 3pm Place: UN Palais des Nations, Room
XX Human rights defenders play a
critical role in exposing and ensuring accountability for business-related
human rights violations. Despite
this, around the world, there is an increase in attacks, judicial harassment,
restrictions, surveillance, intimidation and reprisals against defenders who
work on land and environment issues associated with business activities. This side event will pay special attention to challenges engendered by the
increasing criminalisation or repression of those peacefully denouncing adverse human
rights impacts of corporate projects, discussing the role of both States and
companies. Calling upon States and all other
stakeholders to give full recognition to the legitimate role and important
work carried out by defenders, the event will be an opportunity to explore ways to improve the security of these
advocates at extreme risk as well as to prevent and combat impunity for such attacks and violations.
Jorge Luis Morales, lawyer and
member of the Verapaz Union of Peasant Organisations (UVOC), Guatemala Samuel Nguiffo, Secretary
General of the Centre for Environment and Development (CED), Cameroon Pavel Sulyandziga, Chair of the
UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights Harriet
Berg, Minister-Counsellor, Permanent Mission of Norway in Geneva
Debbie
Stothard,
Coordinator for the Alternative ASEAN Network on Burma (Altsean), Malaysia
and FIDH Secretary General Submit questions through Twitter
using #LandRightsHRD Live webcasting will be available at http://ishr.ch/webcast Interpretation, sandwiches and
refreshments will be provided |
The event is
co-sponsored by the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), Peace
Brigades International (PBI), the Center
for International Environmental Law (CIEL), EarthRights International
(ERI), Friends of the Earth International, Global Witness, the International
Land Coalition, the International
Union for Conservation of Nature National Committee of the
Netherlands (IUCN NL), the International Service for Human Rights (ISHR)
and the Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development
(Forum-Asia). Contact Delphine Reculeau of OMCT for further information: +41 22 809 49 39 / dr@omct.org. |
Overview of CASES of land and environmental rights defenders in danger
FLYER_side event on LER HRD