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2015년 4월 16일

저자:
Júlia Mello Neiva & Sif Thorgeirsson, Business & Human Rights Resource Centre

Confronting asymmetrical power: Empowering Brazil's rural communities to assert their legal rights & challenge corporate impunity

Interview with Danilo Chammas - lawyer and activist for Justiça nos Trilhos (Justice on the Rails, Brazil)...Danilo Chammas is a lawyer and human rights activist with extensive experience in the field. In recent years, he has been dedicated to the work of holding companies accountable for the human rights abuses arising from their operations. The focus of his work has been mainly the impacts of the Carajás project in the north and northeast of Brazil, comprising a large mining project...[Danilo says:]"One of the greatest challenges has to do with the asymmetry of power between the private corporation...and the State that supports it, on the one hand, and the populations impacted by it, on the other...[P]art of the negotiations between the company and affected people occur under conditions of questionable legality, which makes everything harder. And those affected are vulnerable populations. These groups are often unorganized, without any notion of rights and duties, unaware of the legislation or the roles played by the actors involved -- often confusing the role of the company and the State."...[Refers to Vale]