ELC Latin America Team to Cohost Official Side Event at Escazú Agreement COP 3 (Zoom webinar registration link below)
COP 3 of the Escazú Agreement is the third meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Regional Agreement on Access to Information, Public Participation, and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters in Latin America and the Caribbean. This conference will take place from April 22nd to 25th at the headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Santiago de Chile.
The implementation of this international treaty is essential to strengthen environmental human rights and generate cultures that are safe for defenders of Nature and conducive to their work. (Click image below to register or read on for additional information and links.)
Earth Law Center (ELC) together with NGO Defensa Ambiental are working on successful implementation of the Escazú Agreement in Latin America. Our Latin America Team is running a project, entitled “Training on the Rights of Access to Information, Participation, and Justice in Environmental Matters,” aimed at Indigenous women who defend rivers in Chile and Peru.
The project has the support of ECLAC and the French embassy in Chile, and in this event we will have the distinguished presence of the Indigenous women defenders of the Marañón River, who in March of this year achieved a legal victory recognizing the river as a rights-holding entity, as well as their rights as its legal protectors.
At the upcoming Escazú Agreement COP3, we have organized the following official side event, to which we are pleased to invite you:
“Comparative experiences of Ecuador, Chile, and Peru in the implementation of safe and enabling environments for Nature defenders. Evaluation of barriers and accessibility in environmental rights.”
This event will take place on Monday, April 22nd, between 12:30 to 14:00 pm (GMT -4, Santiago de Chile). This event is a Zoom webinar, with access starting at 12:25 pm.
Click the image above or use this link to register.
Consult the complete program of our event in Spanish here.
Consult the complete program of our event in English here.
