Hans Thoolen on Human Rights Defenders and their awards

The illusion of abundance: Film screening and discussion

In their film, Erika Gonzalez Ramirez and Matthieu Lietaert introduce us to Berta Cáceres, Carolina de Moura and Maxima Acuña, three women from Latin America defending their communities, land and livelihood against transnational corporations. For more on Carceres, see: https://humanrightsdefenders.blog/tag/caceres/ as well as https://www.trueheroesfilms.org/thedigest/laureates/2AD0CEE4-80CB-3234-04B4-F2ED7ACBE6C5

Their quest for corporate accountability brought the activists to Geneva, where ISHR accompanied them during the negotiations at the United Nations Palais des Nations on the elaboration of an international legally binding treaty that seeks to regulate, in international human rights law, the activities of transnational corporations. 

• Wednesday 30 November 2022, 1:20pm-2:40pm
   
• Room XVIII, Palais des Nations, Geneva
   
• Languages: movie in original version with English subtitles; discussion in English

• https://www.theillusionofabundance.earth/

This entry was posted on November 23, 2022 at 12:23 and is filed under films, Human Rights Defenders, ISHR.

Tags: Berta Carceres, Carolina de Moura, Documentary film, Geneva, land rights defender, Maxima Acuña, resource extraction, The illusion of abundance (film)