Business and Human Rights – The Environment
Mexico
In Mexico, environmental activists working to protect their lands and livelihoods from encroaching economic interests have faced grave danger due to brutal efforts to silence their protests, including death threats to themselves and their families, violent attacks and unjust imprisonment.
- Send an urgent appeal to defend activists opposing the operations of a mining company in Cerro San Pedro, a village in the northern state of San Luis Potosí, who have been repeatedly harassed and attacked, allegedly by employees of the mining company (August 2007).
- Learn how the La Parota dam project threatens rights and livelihoods and take action (August 2007).
- Read Defender of the Sierra in Amnesty Magazine, to learn about Felipe Arreaga, an activist who was framed for murder and thrown in prison for standing up to corrupt landowning bosses and international logging interests in Mexico's southern state of Guerrero.
- Check out the online chat with Monica Campbell, a freelance journalist based in Mexico City, who recently interviewed Felipe Arreaga after his release from 10 months of unjust detention.
- Learn more about death threats toward anti-logging activists, and the unsolved murder case of Mexican human rights attorney Digna Ochoa.
