[vc_row][vc_column width='1/6'][/vc_column][vc_column width='4/6'] PRESS RELEASE - Statkraft advances hydroelectric projects that violate the right to free, prior, and informed consent, territory, cultural identity and to defend human rights by indigenous communities. - The company contravenes its duty to respect human rights and to apply due diligence in its...
[vc_row][vc_column width='1/3'] [/vc_column][vc_column width='2/3'] National Action Plans on Business and Human Rigths: A Comparative Analysis of Corporate Accountability The report provides an analysis of the design and implementation in six countries that have published at least one National Action Plan. It also gathers, through a thorough document search...
Executive Director of ProDESC participates in the Global Assembly in Frankfurt How can the idea of universal human rights, which was already struggled for in the European revolutions of the 18th and 19th centuries, be conceived and realized globally? This was the question that triggered the...
- Federal and local authorities have systematically refused to recognize Xoco's original people’s rights. - Mítikah is the most recent example of how real estate speculation excludes local inhabitants, makes living costs unbearable deteriorates traditional ways of life. - The original people of Xoco initiate a...
Alejandra Ancheita Alejandra Ancheita is a feminist lawyer and human rights defender in Mexico. She is the founder and Executive Director of the Mexican NGO Proyecto de Derechos Económicos, Sociales y Culturales A.C. (ProDESC). Academic formation Alejandra Ancheita has a law degree from the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM)....
The publication by the European Commission of a proposal for a directive on corporate due diligence and sustainability represents an important step for those of us who for months have been participating in consultations, forums and debates with high expectations that the proposal can crystallise...
[button size='large' style='' text='Download' icon='' icon_color='' link='https://drive.google.com/file/d/1imcuHWcOKKNX9WjcebflWL-v_WOvWaCm/view?usp=sharing' target='_blank' color='#ffffff' hover_color='' border_color='' hover_border_color='' background_color='#7B3C66' hover_background_color='' font_style='' font_weight='' text_align='' margin=''] AU-ProDESC: 1/2022 MEXICO CITY, 11 FEBRUARY 2022 URGENT APPEAL: DEFENDERS OF LAND, TERRITORY AND HUMAN RIGHTS OF UNIÓN HIDALGO, OAXACA, AT RISK [vc_row][vc_column width='1/2'] Alejandro Encinas Rodríguez Under Secretary for Human Rights, Population...
