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Latin America: Civil society calls on UN Working Group to focus on community consultations, extraterritorial obligations, criminalisation of social protest & transparency of extractives
"Letter from the civil society of the Americas to the UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights", Nov 2015
On the occasion of the 2015 Forum on Business and Human Rights, the undersigned organizations would like to call the attention of the United Nations Working Group on [business & human rights]...to four issues of particular relevance to extractive industry projects: community consultation, states’ extraterritorial obligations and companies’ international responsibilities, the criminalization of social protest, and transparency related to the extractive industry.