About ProDESC

Mission: To defend, from an integrated perspective, all people who are exploited in regards to their economic, social, and cultural rights.

PIA Project:

A strategic background report regarding multiple conceptions of rights for mining communities. Particularly, comparing the perspectives of rights of both the extractive industry and the human rights community, and their implications on the ground.

Perspectives in Rights

• Conceptualizing Communities

• The Extractive Industry

• International Advocacy Groups

• HRBA Framework

• Communities, via Case Studies

Indigenous vs. Local

Identity

Territory

Autonomy

Participation

Self Determination

Conceptualizing Communities

The Extractive Industry Perspective

• Corporate Social Responsibility• Sustainability – Triple Bottom Line

“Globally over 30 million people are directly employed by the mining sector and 34 countries rely on minerals for at least one-

quarter of all their exports”

Key Initiatives

GMI MMSD ICMM

GRI Guidelines – the G3

EITI

AA1000

Issues and Problems

Who’s Involved?

Is Anything Mandatory?

Benefits?

“CSR is decried by critics as a farcical form of ‘greenwashing’, nothing but old wine in new bottles, as ineffective, irrelevant, or even actively harmful to the

communities it purports to serve”

International Rights Advocacy

• Center for Economic and Social Rights

•ILO Convention 169

• United Nations Division for Sustainable Development

• International Networking Organizations

The Human Rights Based Approach

• Right-holders and Duty Bearers

• Right to Equality and Non-discrimination

• True Participation and Empowerment

• Indivisibility and Interdependence of Rights

Examination of Case Studies

Haida Nation, Canada

Northwest Territories, Canada

Tamborgrande, Peru

Case Study: Tambogrande Mine

Disadvantages

• Lack of support from national government

• Underdeveloped political awareness of the community

• Low incentive for the extractive industry or national government to negotiate.

Case Study: Tambogrande Mine

Strategies Employed

• Utilized local farm lobby to network with NGOs both nationally and internationally

• Appealed to national pride to generate support the Peruvian people

• Reframed their concerns to better apply to international concerns at the time.

Case Study: Tambogrande Mine

Outcomes

National and international backlash regarding the deprivation of livelihood of the farmers of Tambogrande

National government was forced to rescind the mining company’s right to use the land.

Analysis of Cases using HRBA

Identifying the Duty-bearers

True participation in mining communities

Conclusions and Recommendations

Partnerships

Language

Action