Submissions deadline: 08.05.2025
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Workshop on “Business, Human Rights and the Environment in the Andean Countries”
When: 30 September 2025
Organized by: Centre of Human Rights Erlangen-Nuremberg (CHREN) and the ADLAF Working Group on Andean Countries.
* There will be no fee for attending the conference and the organizers willprovide alimentation. You can apply for support for funding your trip to the organizers. Depending on the availability of funds, we will decide upon yourfunding request.
About
Despite the comparatively strong recognition of different types of rights in the Andean countries, business activities such as extractive industries and large-scale agriculture have often caused significant socio-environmental harm on the ground. These impacts include deforestation, loss of access to water and land, displacement of local communities and family farmers, and health risks due to pesticide use. Additionally, workers’ rights remain insufficiently protected.
In this workshop, we will analyze and discuss the different social and environmental impacts of business activities in the Andean countries, within the context of our global (political) economy. Moreover, we will shed light on different domestic and transnational governance instruments that aim to assess and address adverse impacts caused or contributed to by companies and analyze how they unfold in concrete domestic and local contexts, shaped by different actors and power constellations. Finally, we aim to identify new strategies and initiatives that might contribute to a transformation of human rights and environmental problems associated with businesses, for instance by developing more responsible business models, creating new alliances between actors and social movements struggling for socio-environmental justice or by enhancing corporate accountability.
For more information about the workshop, click here.
We hope to see many of you soon in Nuremberg!
ADLAF Team (Working Group "Andean Countries")