derechos comunitarios, injusticias empresariales

The document outlines various international efforts to protect the ancestral and collective rights of local communities and Indigenous Peoples. It highlights resistance against large-scale industrial projects, such as the Bakun dam in Malaysia, mining in the Philippines and Costa Rica, and oil sands extraction in Canada and the US. The report also discusses community-based forest governance in Indonesia and Cameroon, the promotion of food sovereignty through local markets in Colombia and seed banks in Uruguay, and the fight against genetically modified organisms (GMOs) globally. It argues that community rights serve as a legal and social tool to resist corporate dominance and transition toward environmentally sustainable and socially just societies.

• In Sarawak, Malaysia, the 2400 megawatt Bakun dam project on the Balui River has displaced thousands of Indigenous people and caused extensive tropical forest logging, with the reservoir flooding an area approximately the size of Singapore.
• The Subanon Indigenous communities in Bayog, Mindanao, Philippines, have used political engagement and the 'Free, Prior and Informed Consent' (FPIC) framework to oppose mining concessions and the militarization of their ancestral lands.
• Persistent campaigns and public opposition in Costa Rica led to a November 2010 law prohibiting open-pit metal mining nationwide, following the annulment of a gold mining concession granted to Industrias Infinito SA.
• In Nigeria's Ogoniland, Shell has faced decades of resistance due to environmental destruction and human rights violations; this resulted in a 2009 out-of-court settlement of 15.5 million dollars for victims and ongoing legal battles in Dutch courts.
• The extraction of oil sands in Alberta, Canada, involves deforestation and the use of vast amounts of fresh water and natural gas, creating toxic tailings ponds that leak 11 million liters of toxic waste daily into the Athabasca River basin.
• The proposed Keystone XL pipeline would transport 900,000 barrels of oil daily from Alberta to Texas, potentially threatening the Ogallala Aquifer, which provides drinking water to two million Americans.
• Indonesia is the world's third largest emitter of greenhouse gases, with up to 84% of its national emissions resulting from deforestation and land-use changes, largely driven by industrial oil palm and monoculture tree plantations.
• In Cameroon, the Bagyeli people were displaced to create the Campo Ma’an National Park; however, participatory mapping has helped them negotiate rights to continue traditional hunting and gathering within the park's limits.
• Food sovereignty is being promoted through initiatives such as ecological peasant markets in Colombia and the creation of a native seed bank in Uruguay involving approximately 120 producers by 2010.
• Opposition to genetically modified organisms (GMOs) has led to the prohibition of Monsanto's MON 810 maize in France, Germany, Austria, Greece, Hungary, and Luxembourg, and a commercial moratorium on Bt eggplant in India since February 2010.

APA

Zacune, J., & Rojas, I. (2011). derechos comunitarios, injusticias empresariales. Friends of the Earth International. https://www.foei.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/derechos-comunitarios.pdf

Chicago

Zacune, Joseph, and Isaac Rojas. derechos comunitarios, injusticias empresariales. Friends of the Earth International, 2011. https://www.foei.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/derechos-comunitarios.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{zacune2011derechos, author = {Zacune, Joseph and Rojas, Isaac}, title = {{derechos comunitarios, injusticias empresariales}}, institution = {Friends of the Earth International}, year = {2011}, month = oct, url = {https://www.foei.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/derechos-comunitarios.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }