{"id":3896,"date":"2018-12-04T15:10:52","date_gmt":"2018-12-04T15:10:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/combonimission.wpenginepowered.com\/?p=3896"},"modified":"2018-12-07T14:10:51","modified_gmt":"2018-12-07T14:10:51","slug":"brazil-justica-nos-trilhos-receives-the-2018-human-rights-and-business-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/combonimissionaries.co.uk\/index.php\/2018\/12\/04\/brazil-justica-nos-trilhos-receives-the-2018-human-rights-and-business-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazil: \u201cJusti\u00e7a nos Trilhos\u201d receives the 2018 Human Rights and Business Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Justi\u00e7a nos Trilhos<em>\u00a0 (Justice on the Rails)\u00a0 has just received in Geneva, the new <\/em>Human Rights and Business Award. Justi\u00e7a nos Trilhos<em> is an organisation\u00a0\u2013 supported also by the Comboni Missionaries \u2013 working closely with local communities in remote parts of Brazil \u2013 including indigenous peoples, peasants, and Afro-descendants \u2013 to address human rights and environmental abuses by mining and steel companies, in particular the multinational Vale.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Mining and steel companies have polluted the rivers on which these people depend for drinking water and their livelihoods, polluted the air causing respiratory and eyesight problems, contaminated the soil with industrial waste, displaced communities, and decimated the cultures and lives of indigenous peoples.<\/p>\n<p>The board members of the Human Rights and Business Award Foundation \u2013 Christopher Avery, Regan Ralph and Valeria Scorza \u2013 said in a joint statement: <em>\u201cWe launched this annual award to recognize \u2018outstanding work by human rights defenders addressing the human rights impacts of business.\u00a0 Justice on the Rails epitomises such a group, working rigorously and conscientiously over many years in challenging circumstances \u2013 always in close collaboration with the local communities whose fundamental rights they seek to protect.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The human rights defenders of Justice on the Rails, and the local communities they work with, have been subjected to surveillance and retaliatory lawsuits by Vale.<\/p>\n<p>Danilo Chammas, a lawyer at Justice on the Rails, has commented: <em>\u201cWe work to reinforce the principle of human rights, which is at its core the principle of democracy.\u00a0 But I think we still have a long way to go.\u00a0 There is still a lot to do to provide real opportunities for access to justice to those whose rights are violated by these companies.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Alexandra Montgomery, the member of the foundation\u2019s Advisory Network who nominated <em>Justi\u00e7a nos Trilhos<\/em> for the award, commented: <em>\u201cThe day-to-day operations of Vale\u2019s projects in Carajas have harmed more than 100 communities\u2026.Justi\u00e7a nos Trilhos\u2019 work is done in a very solid and organized fashion, accessing legal mechanisms, researching, and closely strategizing and measuring their actions.\u00a0 They work with university centres and professionals who research and analyse the data.\u00a0 The claims that they make are not spontaneous, they are grounded in the experiences of the communities.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Human Rights and Business Award Foundation is an independent non-profit foundation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Justi\u00e7a nos Trilhos\u00a0 (Justice on the Rails)\u00a0 has just received in Geneva, the new Human Rights and Business Award. Justi\u00e7a nos Trilhos is an organisation\u00a0\u2013 supported also by the Comboni Missionaries \u2013 working closely with local communities in remote parts of Brazil \u2013 including indigenous peoples, peasants, and Afro-descendants \u2013 to address human rights and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/combonimissionaries.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/combonimissionaries.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/combonimissionaries.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/combonimissionaries.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/combonimissionaries.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/combonimissionaries.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3896\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/combonimissionaries.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/combonimissionaries.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/combonimissionaries.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}