The Impact of Extractive Industries on Human Rights and Climate Change in the Caribbean

IACHR Thematic Hearing
October 26th, 2021 at 2:00 p.m. (EST)

On October 26, 2021, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights held a landmark virtual hearing on The Impact of Extractive Industries on Human Rights and Climate Change in the Caribbean during its 181st Period of Sessions. The hearing was requested by Malene Alleyne, Jamaican human rights lawyer and Founder of Freedom Imaginaries, and Esther Figueroa, Jamaican environmental filmmaker. Nearly ninety organizations and individuals across the Caribbean co-signed the request. The hearing focused on the impact of the mining and fossil fuels industries on the economic, social, cultural and environmental rights of women, Indigenous, Afro-descendent, and rural communities in the Caribbean.