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"The Chixoy Dam Destroyed Our Lives"
04/26/04
Monti Aguirre describes the tragedy of the Maya-Achi people of Guatemala, victims of a World Bank-funded hydro-electric dam, and their efforts to reclaim their lives.
Author(s):
Monti Aguirre
Twilight People: Iraq's Marsh Inhabitants
04/27/04
Saddam Hussein drained Iraq's southern marshlands as part of a deliberate strategy to destroy the lives of the region's indigenous inhabitants. As Sayyed Nadeem Kazmi and Stuart M. Leiderman explain, restoring this fragile ecosystem should be a fundamental imperative in the new Iraq.
Author(s):
Sayyed Nadeem Kazmi,
Stuart Leiderman
Mining a Sacred Land
04/27/04
Walton describes Freeport McMoRan's devastation of the Amungme and Kamoro people in Papua in what has become one of the best known cases of environmental injustice perpetrated by a multinational extractive industry.
Author(s):
Abigail Abrash Walton
Commentary on "The relationship between environmental rights and environmental injustice"
04/27/04
Atik examines the issues addressed in this section through claims of (1) environmental justice, (2) environmental human rights, and (3) “strong environmental rights,” the rights of the natural environment itself, in order to formulate possible solutions appropriate to each.
Author(s):
Jeffery Atik
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