People and Planet First Part 2
As we mark Development and Peace’s 55th year, growing our movement and continuing to advocate for strong corporate due diligence laws are the twin foci of the next phase of our campaign.
As we mark Development and Peace’s 55th year, growing our movement and continuing to advocate for strong corporate due diligence laws are the twin foci of the next phase of our campaign.
At a recent event, a Honduran human rights lawyer and a Canadian activist appealed for international solidarity and advocacy to end the abuses of our country’s mining industry.
Development and Peace is calling for the protection of Sonia Pérez, a grassroots journalist who is facing intimidation and harassment in Honduras.
Development and Peace’s Peruvian partner, CEAS, writes an open letter to delegates at one of the world’s largest extractive industry conventions.
Although some groups support Bill S-211, Development and Peace and its allies think Canada needs much stronger due diligence laws to ensure corporate accountability.
Our People and Planet First campaign has made encouraging progress on advocating for mandatory human rights and environmental de diligence laws, but we cannot rest yet.
As part of the People and Planet First campaign, a group of Canadian high school students on a solidarity retreat sent messages of support to wrongly imprisoned human rights defenders in Honduras.
Generous support from Canadians is helping Development and Peace ― Caritas Canada’s partners provide legal and social support to persecuted human rights defenders in Honduras.
If COP26 negotiations are to amount to anything, approaches that prioritize people and penalize polluters will have to be chosen over false promises of technological salvation.
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