Human Rights and the Mining Industry in Honduras Workshop
Human Rights Workshop, February 2, 2002
CESR held a workshop on Human Rights and the Mining Industry on February 2, 2002 in San Andres near Santa Rosa Copan, Honduras. The workshop inluded participants from 3 communities in San Andres located adjacent to gold mines. The workshop sought to provide participants with an understanding of the basic principles of international human rights law and where it comes from; an opportunity to discuss mining and human rights; training in how to apply human rights standards to their local experience with gold mining; and education on the concluding observations of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights from its April 2001 session on Honduras. The workshop included exercises on how to use human rights in local advocacy work and a video from Peru on the story a community who experienced a mercury spill from mining activities.
