The human cost of advocating against environmental degradation and land rights violations

31 October, Senate House, University of London, 8.30am-5.30pm

Indigenous and traditional farming communities pay a high price for taking a stand against large-scale extractive, agribusiness, and development projects threatening their land.

Repressive tactics by state and non-state actors work to silence dissent and allow profitable business ventures to proceed. 

Despite international mechanisms designed to protect these communities, they continue to suffer land rights violations and environmental degradation, and their advocates continue to be threatened and attacked.

What more can governments, business, international institutions, and civil society do to make these protection mechanisms more effective?

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Registration £10/5

Keynote speakers:
James Anaya, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
Michael Mansfield QC, leading UK civil rights lawyer
Nick Mathiason, Bureau of Investigative Journalists, author of the report Piping Profits

Panelists include:
Lucy Claridge, Minority Rights Group
Fiona Darroch, Protimos
Peter Frankental, Amnesty International
Christine Jones, Peace Brigades International
Sheldon Leader, Essex University
Shanta Martin, Leigh Day & Co
Father Wilfrido Mayrén Pelaez, Mexican human rights defender
Jorge Molano, Colombian human rights lawyer
Lisa Nandy MP, APPG for Corporate Social Responsibility
The Institute for Human Rights and Business
London Mining Network

A conference organised by Peace Brigades International, with the support of:

The All Party Parliamentary Human Rights Group
Amnesty International
The Institute for the Study of the Americas
The Law Society
Minority Rights Group International