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Environmental Justice Atlas
The EJ Atlas is a teaching, networking and advocacy resource. Strategists, activist organizers, scholars, and teachers will find many uses for the database, as well as citizens wanting to learn more about the often invisible conflicts taking place.
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A PLANET IN DANGER: the world of CHEVRONChevron is well known around the world as a company that systematically applies the "Polluter does not Pay Principle". This scholar-activist collaborative mapping project shows stories of communities reclaiming justice. #DíaAntiChevron |
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Climate DebtThe overconsumption of the available capacity of the Earth’s atmosphere and climate system to absorb greenhouse gases by the developed countries has run up a climate debt to developing countries and Mother Earth. |
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Permanent Peoples Tribunal Hearing on Corporate Human Rights Violations and Peoples Access to JusticeOn the first anniversary of the UNHRC resolution to address corporate abuses, this Feature Map updates the state of some cases presented in the Geneva PPT Hearing. More to be reported very soon. |
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Fracking FrenzyThe high-volume horizontal hydraulic fracturing or “fracking”, generates serious and large-scale environmental and human health concerns. |
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Environmental Justice in Himachal Pradesh, IndiaEJAtlas collaboration with Himdhara collective. Despite the image of a "green state", the Himalayan state pursue increasing energy generation and industrial development by diluting laws and ignoring dissent. |
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Mining conflicts in Latin AmericaThe mining conflicts featured map presents cases of mining conflicts related to metal ores, industrial minerals and construction materials mining activities. Metal ores present the largest number of reported cases. |
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Seed laws around the worldUnder corporate pressure, laws in many countries increasingly put limitations on what farmers can do with their seeds and with the seeds they buy. This map gives a picture of of the situation across the world today. |
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Represa Los Pilares (o Bicentenario), Sonora, Mexico Construcción de una presa en el Río Mayo, zona que es sitio sagrado y centro del hábitat de la población de los Guarijíos entre las laderas de la Sierra Madre Occidental. |
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Hinuguruwelpitiya Quarries, Sri Lanka Since 2012 six quarries and metal crushers have been established in the Hinguruwelpitiya forest causing adverse impacts on the forest ecosystem which include forest clearance, rock blasting and blocking of the elephant corridor which has resulted in eleph |
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Koskulana Mini Hydro Power Project, Sri Lanka Upon inquiry PILF became aware that the mini hydro power project was right on the boundary of the Sinharaja World Heritage Site, last remaining relatively undisturbed remnant of tropical humid evergreen forest in Sri Lanka |
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Tehri Hydropower Plant, UK, India On the confluence of the Ganga and the Bhagirati river, Tehri dam is displacing 100,000 people and splitting up communities to bring water and electricity to bigger cities, including Delhi |
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Somkhele coal Mine by Tendele, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa Tendele’s open cast coal mine leaves local communities with no safe drinkable water. It gained denounces by the South African Human Rights Commission and opposition from the WoMin group. The Women’s Water Assembly rejects the project. |
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When she was killed, Betty Cariño was 37 years old, with a long trajectory of struggle for women's freedom, for environmental and human rights, and for self-determination of indigenous peoples. |