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Ethics Tribunal Mining Frontier:
Monday, September 27, 2010
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human rights defenders are judging panel
Persons with long experience will be part of the judging panel to formulate an ethical boundary for mining. Mission will consider and issue a ruling on the implications of this model of extraction in Latin America where there will be cases like the Pascua Lama project in Chile and Argentina. The judging panel is linked to the rights of the indigenous world, the association and advocate for protection of the environment.
The judging panel is composed of international personalities linked to the defense of human rights as Bishop Emeritus Chile Ancud, Monsignor Juan Luis Ysern ; Sister Elsie Monge , Executive Director of the Ecumenical Commission of Human Rights (CEDHU) in Ecuador; Lorenzo Wheeler, leader Guambiano Indian who has participated in many movements for the ancestral rights of indigenous peoples of Colombia; Karyn Keenan , Program Director Halifax Initiative in Canada, and Cristian Cuevas, Secretary of collective bargaining, conflict and solidarity of the Confederation of Workers of Chile (CUT).
The program will begin at 9 am on September 30 judges and will run until 18 pm with a extensive itinerary that includes exhibitions of the affected border Mexico-Guatemala, Guatemala, Salvador, Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia, Brazil, and Chile-Argentina to the Pascua Lama project. At the end of Court issue a ruling on the implications of this model of extraction in Latin America.
The activity was held in the Hall CUT, Alameda 1346, Metro Moneda. The ethical Court Frontier Mining will be broadcast Live on Radio Del Mar over the Internet for everyone in www.radiodelmar.cl .
Paths panel of judges
Chilean Bishop Emeritus of Ancud, Monsignor Juan Luis Ysern , has had a long history in defense of cultural heritage, specifically the town Huilliche in Chiloé. He was recognized and accepted by his work as a member of the village Huilliche by the General Council of Chiefs of Chiloé and the Federation of Indigenous Communities Chiloe. He received the National Prize of Culture for his career in the defense of Cultural Heritage and received the Medal of the Order of Merit Pablo Neruda Artistic and Cultural delivering the National Council for Culture and the Arts.
Sister Elsie Monge currently is Executive Director of the Ecumenical Commission of Human Rights (CEDHU) in Ecuador where he helps refugees expatriate politicians and dictators like Chile's. After living in Mexico, Colombia, Panama and Chile, returned to his native Ecuador where she worked with immigrants of African descent for identity and memory. Then supported the creation of the Federation of Chota, where farmers did a land reclamation process. She integrates the CEDHU since 1981 and is its director since 1986, alongside Ecuadorian created the Human Rights Front.
Lorenzo Wheels is leader Guambiano Indian who has participated in many movements for the ancestral rights of indigenous peoples of Colombia. He was one of the founders of the Cauca Indigenous Regional Committee (CRIC) and the Indigenous Authorities of the South West (AICO), which today is called Indigenous Authorities of Colombia (AICO). He was elected governor of the indigenous community in 1985 Guambiano then become part of the Council of Elders who heads the City Council. Participated in the National Constituent Assembly that ended with the drafting of the 1991 Colombian Constitution. Three years later he was elected Senator of the Republic for the special indigenous to the constitutional period 1994-1998. In 2006 young people chose him as governor of Guambía, the highest office in the nation. Currently sits on the table between the government and the communities of Cauca to resolve a land dispute involving the Colombian and indigenous peoples. Despite years of struggle, Wheeler states that "much remains to be done."
Karyn Keenan is Halifax Initiative program director in Canada, a coalition bringing together more than twenty organizations working on the development, the environment, faith, human rights and labor rights. He has extensive experience in issues of social and environmental justice from which he has supported communities affected by the impacts of mining and oil extraction in Peru and Bolivia. In recent years he has participated in the round tables in Canada for Corporate Social Responsibility and the Canadian Extractive Industry in Developing Countries with the aim of achieving greater restrictions on Canadian companies operating in other countries.
Cristian Cuevas, son of a coal miner, his life has been involved in organizing for labor improvements and expand the rights of workers associated with mining. He was President of the Confederation of Copper Workers (CTC) and is currently Secretary of collective bargaining, conflict and solidarity of the Confederation of Workers of Chile. In 2007, he led a strike that lasted for 37 days taking access to the main CODELCO miners who achieved improvements in wages, health insurance, life insurance, scholarship and a major productivity bonus for workers subcontractors. Active member of the Communist Party of Chile where he supported the candidacy of the iconic leader Gladys Marin PC in 1999.
OLCA Communications.
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