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EarthRights joins amicus brief filed before the U.S. Supreme Court in Doe v. Cisco Systems

EarthRights joins amicus brief filed before the U.S. Supreme Court in Doe v. Cisco Systems

Last week, together with a coalition of twelve international human rights organizations, we submitted an amicus brief…

Challenging Green Grabs: How a Young Lawyer from Laos Found His Voice 

When Pay thinks about his home in northern Laos, his thoughts immediately drift to the land that has safeguarded…

How a Young Karen Defender Is Challenging Land Grabs in Thailand

Tan grew up in Mae Hong Son province, in northern Thailand, as part of a Karen Indigenous community that has lived in…

Rising Beyond Borders: One Alumni’s Journey to Make a Lasting Difference

Mi Tri is from an Indigenous village nestled in the remote mountains of Myanmar, where fruit trees blossom and sea…

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  • Judicial Persecution of FENAMAD for Defending the Rights of Indigenous People Living in Voluntary Isolation

    Status: Ongoing
    Issues: EarthRights Defenders

    Estado del caso: Ongoing Temas: Environmental Defenders Localización: Department of Madre de Dios in the Peruvian Amazon. Summary The Native Federation of the Madre de Dios River and Tributaries (FENAMAD), and its then-president Julio Cusurichi, faced judicial persecution for publicly speaking out about the risk of harm to the Mashco Piro people due to the…

  • The Case of the Mashco Piro Indigenous People Before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights

    Status: Ongoing

    Estado del caso: Ongoing Ubicación: Madre de Dios, Cusco, Ucayali / Peru and Acre / Brazil Summary The Mashco Piro are an Indigenous people living in voluntary isolation throughout a cross-border territory in the southeastern Peruvian Amazon bordering Brazil. The presence of timber concessions, infrastructure projects, and illegal logging and mining activity pose serious risks…

  • New Mexico Oil and Gas Wells

    Status: Ongoing
    Issues: Climate Justice & Accountability

    New Mexico Oil and Gas Wells Case Name: CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY; SAN JUAN CITIZENS ALLIANCE; and TÓ NIZHÓNÍ ÁNÍ, vs. THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO; NEW MEXICO ENERGY MINERALS AND NATURAL RESOURCES DEPARTMENT; and ACTING SECRETARY ERIN TAYLOR, in her official capacity Summary: This case challenges the failure of the New Mexico oil and…

    Abandoned well in New Mexico.

  • FRIENDS OF THE EARTH V. EXPORT-IMPORT BANK OF THE UNITED STATES

    Status: Ongoing
    Issues: Climate Justice & Accountability

    FRIENDS OF THE EARTH V. EXPORT-IMPORT BANK OF THE UNITED STATES Summary: This case challenges the Export-Import Bank of the United States (EXIM)’s unlawful approval of a $4.7-billion-dollar loan to subsidize French oil giant TotalEnergies’ construction of a massive, highly controversial liquefied natural gas (LNG) project in Mozambique. EarthRights represents  Friends of the Earth U.S.…

  • Caso pueblo indígena Mashco Piro ante la Corte IDH

    Status: Ongoing

    Estado del caso: En curso Ubicación: Madre de Dios, Cusco, Ucayali / Perú y Acre / Brasil Resumen del caso El pueblo indígena en aislamiento Mashco Piro— que habita un territorio transfronterizo en el sureste de la Amazonía peruana en frontera con Brasil—  enfrenta graves riesgos por la presencia de concesiones madereras, proyectos de infraestructura…