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La Fiscalía Provincial se abstuvo de impugnar la sentencia de segunda instancia que confirmaba la inocencia de todas las y los comuneros de Urinsaya.

Alcalde de Pasco demanda a minera Volcan para exigir justicia ambiental por contaminación en Cerro de Pasco

New Mexico’s Regulator Sued for Failure to Hold Oil and Gas Companies Accountable for Well Cleanup

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For over 30 years, we have been the nonprofit legal organization at the forefront of holding powerful corporations accountable for human rights and environmental abuses worldwide and to shift power back to the communities they harm.

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Environmental Contamination in Cerro De Pasco

Status: Ongoing

Issues: Corporate Accountability

Case Status: Ongoing Location: City of Cerro de Pasco, Pasco Province, Peru CASE SUMMARY On May 28, 2026, the mayor of the provincial municipality of Pasco, with legal advice and support from EarthRights International, filed a constitutional protection lawsuit (amparo) with the Peruvian Constitutional Court against the Volcan mining group. The purpose of the lawsuit…
Contaminación Ambiental en Cerro de Pasco

Status: Ongoing

Issues: Corporate Accountability

Estado del caso: En curso Ubicación: Ciudad de Cerro de Pasco, Provincia de Pasco, Perú RESUMEN DEL CASO El 28 de mayo de 2026, el Alcalde de la Municipalidad Provincial de Pasco, con la asesoría y acompañamiento legal de EarthRights, presentó una demanda de amparo ante un Juzgado Constitucional del Perú contra las empresas mineras del…
Alerte Congolaise pour l’Environnement et les Droits de l’Homme et al. v. Winds Exploration and Production & Symbion Power

Status: Ongoing

Case Type: Foreign Legal Assistance, Transnational Accountability

Issues: Climate Justice & Accountability, Corporate Accountability

Case Status: Ongoing Issues: Corporate Accountability; Climate Justice and Accountability Summary: In 2022, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) government put three methane gas blocks up for auction. The blocks are in Lake Kivu, a unique lake whose layers of gas present a risk of a catastrophic explosion that could expose the millions of…
Judicial Persecution of FENAMAD for Defending the Rights of Indigenous People Living in Voluntary Isolation

Status: Ongoing

Issues: EarthRights Defenders

Case Status: Ongoing Issues: Environmental Defenders Location: Department of Madre de Dios in the Peruvian Amazon. Summary The Native Federation of the Madre de Dios River and Tributaries (FENAMAD), and its then-president Julio Cusurichi, faced judicial persecution for publicly speaking out about the risk of harm to the Mashco Piro people due to the resumption…
The Case of the Mashco Piro Indigenous People Before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights

Status: Ongoing

Issues: Climate Justice & Accountability

Case Status: Ongoing Location: Madre de Dios, Cusco, Ucayali / Peru and Acre / Brazil Summary The Mashco Piro are an Indigenous people living in voluntary isolation throughout a cross-border territory in the southeastern Peruvian Amazon bordering Brazil. The presence of timber concessions, infrastructure projects, and illegal logging and mining activity pose serious risks to…