Resource Conflicts

10/07/2022

This animated video introduces the concept of “juridification” and its specificity when it relates to disputes over mineral deposits and territory.The video ...

24/02/2022

Ayer presentamos el dossier de Íconos Revista de Ciencias Sociales Flacso Ecuador 72 “Extractivismo minero en América Latina: la juridificación de los conflictos socioambientales”.

Contamos con la presencia de Jenny Ponton, Morita Carrasco y Santiago Bastos.

En el evento virtual participamos también las editoras invitadas de este dossier Rachel Sieder, Ainhoa Montoya y Yacotzin Bravo.

Descarga la revista completa en: https://revistas.flacsoandes.edu.ec/iconos/issue/view/211

07/12/2021

All welcome to the launch of this collaborative book by
Tlachinollan Centro de Derechos Humanos de La Montaña Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung Ciudad de México CIESAS & Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies School of Advanced Study - University of London

¡No se lo pierdan!

📍Presentación de libro | Montaña a cielo abierto ¡ Libre de minería!

🗓7 de diciembre de 2021. ⏰6:00 pm.

📽Transmisión en vivo en Facebook de Tlachinollan.

08/10/2021

El derecho y los derechos ante la defensa de los territorios, las formas de vida colectiva y los bienes comunes

Check out the articles we have published in a special issue of the CLACSO bulletin Crítica Jurídica y Política en Nuestra América entitled 'Law and rights in the defense of territories, collective ways of living and the commons’. Edited by Yacotzin Bravo

The bulletin is available for download here 👇👇https://www.clacso.org/boletin-9-critica-juridica-y-politica-en-nuestra-america/

20/09/2021

In recognition of , we invite you to read this Journal of Latin American Studies article exploring citizen proposals to manage transborder watercourses inspired by an ethics of care https://cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-latin-american-studies/article/abs/on-care-for-our-common-home-ecological-materiality-and-sovereignty-over-the-lempa-transboundary-watershed/89C288198FB784B3F8C16B4516122358…

On Care for Our Common Home: Ecological Materiality and Sovereignty over the Lempa Transboundary Watershed - Volume 53 Issue 2

04/08/2021

: Consider submitting a paper to our special issue with The International Journal of Human Rights on 'Moralities, Ontologies, and Legal Entanglements: Disputing Territory and Nature in Latin America'

Further details https://lnkd.in/gHyPmwPy

This special issue explores legal mobilization processes around environmental disputes which involve distinct ontologies and values with regards to nature.

29/07/2021

On 2021, take a look at this article by
Ainhoa Montoya from the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies exploring the challenges and citizen proposals to manage transboundary watercourses https://bit.ly/377KBqq

Journal of Latin American Studies

03/06/2021

DE PRENSA. DIGAMOS NO A LA MINA CERRO BLANCO, Las comunidades fronterizas de Guatemala y El Salvador marcharan en el lago de Guija para exigir el cierre definitivo del proyecto minero Cerro Blanco, que solo ha contaminado la región, El Rio Ostúa, El lago de Guija, y el Rio Lempa, y ha violentado el derecho humano al agua, al ambiente sano, a la vida y la salud de la población de Asunción Mita y millones de hermanos salvadoreños.

Revista GatoEncerrado Diario Co Latino Radio YSUCA 91.7 FM Vanguardia El Salvador Teleprensa 33 Meganoticias Megavision REDIA El Salvador

03/06/2021

¿Querés tener mayor información sobre el proyecto minero Cerro Blanco y las amenazas que representa para Guatemala y El Salvador?
Te invitamos a escuchar Voces de MadreSelva este jueves 3 de junio.
Federación Guatemalteca de Escuelas Radiofónicas FGER

11/05/2021

https://theconversation.com/environmental-activists-are-being-killed-in-honduras-over-their-opposition-to-mining-158358

Honduras is the most dangerous country in the world for environmental activists. Those who have opposed mining, hydroelectric, logging and tourism have faced violence and death.

22/04/2021

On we celebrate the entry into force of the in Latin America and the Caribbean! It guarantees rights to information, participation and justice on environmental matters, including the right to live in a healthy environment and the protection of environmental defenders

Adopted on 4 March 2018 in Escazú, Costa Rica, the Regional Agreement aims to guarantee the full and effective implementation in Latin America and the Caribbean of the rights of access to environmental information, public participation in the environmental decision-making process and access to just...

22/04/2021

On please take a look at the database we’re building on the legal and political actions of environmental defenders, and the legal artefacts that relate to these actions, in the context of disputes over natural resources in and https://ilas.sas.ac.uk/resources/legal-cultures-subsoil-database

Soon to be available in Spanish as well!