Case: Campos-Alvarez v. Newmont Mining
Shooting Peaceful Mine Protesters in Peru. In Peru, police brutality against earth rights defenders is a systemic problem especially in the context of extractive industries. One emblematic example of police
Across the world, land is a primary source of livelihoods for billions of people. Human rights defenders working on land issues experience growing levels of violence.
Large agribusiness projects – especially those that involve “land grabbing” – have resulted in countless human rights abuses to indigenous peoples and other natural resource-dependent communities. Human rights abuses arise out of violent seizures of land, loss of land and property without adequate replacements, involuntary resettlement, and the poisoning of land and water by unchecked industrial activities.
