Iglesias y Minería is a Latin American platform of Christian NGOs inspired by Laudate Sí that seeks a binding human rights treaty to prevent abuses by extractivist multinationals in Latin America. Entidades fraternas de Iglesias y Minería describes the 24 NGOs that are part of the platform and includes the Inter-Church Commission for Justice and Peace of Colombia with which the Colombia Group of the grassroots community St. Thomas Aquinas of Redes Cristianas has a strong relationship.
Iglesias y Minería in Europe is coordinated with CIDSE: "We are an international family of Catholic social justice organisations working for transformational change to end poverty and inequalities, challenging systemic injustice, inequity, destruction of nature and promoting just and environmentally sustainable alternatives."
Council of EU approves the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive. This statement is available in all the languages of the EU. A second directive on due diligence is pending approval by the European Parliament.
On 10th November 2022, in the EU delegation in Madrid, the pre-release film The Illusion of Abundance was shown. It describes severe human rights infringements by mining and energy multinationals in Guatemala, Peru and Brazil, where it describes how Tüv Süd, a German insurance company, guaranteed the Brumadinho tailings dam of the Brazilian multinational Vale although it was in danger of colapsing. Shortly afterwards, the dam colapsed killing 272 employees.
These two new EU directives are designed to make multinational companies and their directors and executives responsible for human rights and climate change infringements and facilitate claims by those affected worldwide by EU multinationals or non-EU companies that work in the EU.
See also the report on the EU directives The Business & Human Rights Resource Centre which can also be read in French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian and Asian languages. You can read weekly newsletters in these languages.
We recommend cooperating with CIDSE members in our own countries in working to ensure that multinationals change their company policies to ensure the priority of human rights and measures against climate change over company profits.