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Environment is Life: Voices of Human Rights Activists from the Around the World
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By: Priscila Néri
Posted: Apr 20 09
Witnessed: 4993 veces
Regions: Global
Issues: Environment, Sustainable development, Water
Tags: Chevron, environmental justice, environmental rights, human rights, land, mining, oil, Pablo Fajardo, water
What images come to mind when you think of human rights? Pictures of torture, unjust detention, police brutality, political persecution? Or do you think about climate change? What about when you think of the environmental movement? Do you picture oceans, forests, whales, butterflies? Or do you think about people?
Although the environmental and human rights movements are sometimes perceived as two different things - especially in many developed countries like the United States - in much of the world they are closely intertwined.
Environment is Life: Voices of Human Rights Activists from Around the World celebrates Earth Day 2009 by bringing you stories from Ecuador, Jamaica, Kenya, Papua New Guinea, Tanzania and more.
The interviews were recorded in March 2009 at the annual meeting of the Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide in Eugene, Oregon. Stay tuned to hub.witness.org/ELAWinterviews to see the full interviews of those featured in this video and of other advocates.
The images you see in this film are as diverse as the voices. They come from our partners in this collaborative project and from the WITNESS Media Archive, including:
* Burlington Resources in Ecuador (AmazonWatch)
* The Camisea Project: Risky Business (AmazonWatch)
* Rightful Place: Endrois' Struggle for Justice
* Rule of the Gun in Sugarland
* Squatters in Their Own Lands
* Voices from the Salween Valley: The Real Story Behind the Dam
* Never Wash Away
Now we want to hear from you: do environmental rights = human rights? Share your thoughts by leaving a comment below or uploading your own video!
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Climate Justice Dialogue
PorSameer Padania on May 4 09
Here's another interesting meeting-point, with the humanitarian field:
http://www.ghf-geneva.org/
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Sameer Padania | http://hub.witness.org | http://www.witness.org
Research - links between climate and poverty, and human rights
PorSameer Padania on May 4 09
The UK's Department for International Development (DfID) has released a report seeking to make more explicit the links between climate change and poverty:
http://www.research4development.info/PDF/Articles/degrees-of-separation....
This is complemented by a report from the International Council on Human Rights Policy (ICHRP) on the links between climate change and human rights...:
http://www.ichrp.org/files/reports/36/136_report.pdf
Both reports are worth delving into to get a solid grounding in the issues brought up by the activists interviewed in this film.
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Sameer Padania | http://hub.witness.org | http://www.witness.org
Bolivia: water people of Andes face extinction (The Guardian)
PorSameer Padania on Apr 24 09
The Guardian's just put up a video from Bolivia detailing the impact of climate change on the Uru Chipaya:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/apr/24/andes-tribe-threat-bolivia-c...
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Sameer Padania | http://hub.witness.org | http://www.witness.org