Research | Corporate Capture | Human Rights On Thursday, September 12, a discussion entitled "Challenges in the Defense of Human Rights in the Face of Business Practices" was held, which brought together a dozen civil...
Since the beginning of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador's administration (AMLO), a package of infrastructure projects has been announced with the aim of promoting the country's economic development, among which...
The use of natural gas use is a topic of debate. On the one hand it is considered a non-renewable source the combustion of which produces almost 50% less greenhouse gases (GHG) than coal or oil combustion. So in this...
Mexico City, May 23, 2017.– A coalition of civil society organizations has requested that U.S. and Canadian securities regulators investigate whether Canadian-based company, Almaden Minerals, violated the disclosure...
The gold and silver open pit mine IXTACA PROJECT, on its advanced exploration stage, is located in the Ixtacamaxtitlán municipality, in the SIERRA NORTE region of the Mexican State of PUEBLA. It occupies the...
THIS COMMUNITY-LED HUMAN RIGHTS IMPACT ASSESSMENT (HRIA) AIMS TO IDENTIFY, MEASURE, AND PREVENT THE IXTACA PROJECT’S NEGATIVE IMPACTS ON HUMAN RIGHTS. More specifically, the HRIA demonstrates the discrepancy between...
On April 17, 2016, in Santa María Zotoltepec, Puebla, the main results of the human rights impact assessment (HRIA) were presented. It was conducted by the Project on Organizing, Development, Education, and...
November 2015 Extractive projects in the Sierra Norte of Puebla are imposed without consultation and with repression and violence Mexico has granted concessions totaling 331,729 hectares to private companies without...
12 November 2014 Observation Mission presents Report on the consultation process of wind projects in Juchitán, Oaxaca - The report presents violations of the principles governing the right to consultation, such as: the...
24 February 2014 Paradigmatic Cases of BNDES Investment in South America: Needs and Opportunities to Improve Internal Policies A civil society publication by: Asociación Ambiente y Sociedad (AAS) (Colombia)...
24 February 2014 Paradigmatic Cases of BNDES Investment in South America: Needs and Opportunities to Improve Internal Policies A civil society publication by: Asociación Ambiente y Sociedad (AAS) (Colombia)...
15 November 2011 Executive Summary On September 5, 1866, in the vicinity of Juchitán de Zaragoza in the state of Oaxaca, a skeletal battalion of the Mexican army, undermined by fatigue and hunger, sought out and formed...