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Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to hear about human rights abuses stemming from IIRSA
Indian Law Resource Center:Center attorney Leonardo Crippa, joined by Indian leaders from Peru, Bolivia and Brazil, testified this week before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights about a series of development initiatives in South America that is putting indigenous peoples at risk.
Today, South American governments and multilateral development banks, such as the Inter-American Development Bank, are promoting the economic integration of all South America through a massive web of interconnected projects. As planned, this infrastructure development scheme, also known as IIRSA (Initiative for the Integration of Regional Infrastructure in South America), will bring large scale deforestation, pollution, roads, and harmful development to the most remote areas of the continent. The Amazon and Andes will be dammed and carved into giant water transportation highways, and crisscrossed by roads, oil pipelines, and energy lines without regard to the environment or the people who live in these areas. The impacts on indigenous peoples in particular will be extreme. Indigenous lands are being confiscated, communities are being forcibly relocated, and the ecosystems indigenous peoples depend on to sustain their cultural integrity, their livelihoods, and their physical survival are in jeopardy.
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