Fighting the tide : human rights and environmental justice in the global south /
César Rodríguez Garavito
- Bogotá: Dejusticia, 2017
- 348 páginas, 24 cm.
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Chapter 1: The role of financial institutions in promoting environmental (in) justice: The brazilian development bank and the belo monte dam. Chapter 2: Relational practices: Pacto´s good-faith community referendum and the story of a mining conflict in the cloud forests of Ecuador. Chapter 3: Dissent against “Development” The Mindanao indigenous people. Chapter 4: Saving Lamu. Chapter 5: Maya beekeepers stand up to Monsanto's genetically modified soy. Chapter 6: Of love, privilege, and autonomy. Chapter 7: Stained gold: A story of human rights violations in Ghana's mining industry. Chapter 8: Garrote and venice: Development. decent housing, and human rights in Argentina. Chapter 9: Lost in translation: Toward an environmental right to know for all. Chapter 10: On the margins of the river, Margins of institutions: The xingu people and the belo monte dam. Chapter 11: Environmentalism and the urban jungle: Conflicting rights and contradictory visions. Chapter 12: Agrochemicals. Uncertainty in a Dialogue between policy, law, and society. Chapter 13: Changing faces and stories of environmental justice. Chapter 14: Fighting the tide: challenges for young human rights defenders in the global south. Chapter 15: Knowledge, Struggle, and Transforming the world.
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Colombia--Brazil--Ecuador--Philippines--Kenya --Mexico--India--Ghana--Indonesia--Argentina Action research Environmentalrights