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Friday, 15 October 2021 at 13:00 (IST)
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When we buy groceries, new clothes, use electricity or go about our day-to-day lives, we want to be sure that we’re not having a negative impact on others. Yet corporations have a profound negative impact on people and the environment around the world. In this event, we’ll hear directly from human rights defenders about their experiences standing up to corporations and what we can do in N. Ireland to hold companies to account for their impacts abroad.BBCNI’s Business Correspondent Clodagh Rice will moderate the panel. Contributors will include Rosa María Mateus Parra, an activist from Colombia who supports the work of the José Alvear Restrepo Lawyers’ Collective (Cajar). This organisation supports indigenous communities to peacefully resist the Cerrejon mine in Northern Colombia. The mine is the largest opencast coal mine in Latin America and is owned by three mining companies listed on the London Stock Exchange. The mine has a long and well documented history of serious human rights abuses. In 2019, the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination highlighted that Ireland’s Electricity Supply Board (ESB) has purchased coal from the Cerrejon mine.We will also here from Garry Walsh (Trócaire) & Hannah Storey (Front Line Defenders) about the campaign in the UK and Ireland for stronger regulation to stop corporate human rights abuses and environmental destruction.Contributions from other global human rights defenders will be confirmed soon.This event is organised by Christian Aid Ireland, Front Line Defenders and Trócaire as part of the One World Festival.Image caption: Image of Cerrejón mine. Photo credit: Bianca Bauer.About this event
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