Comparative study of enabling environments for associations and businesses 2015, para. 103
Párrafo
Paragraph text
Similarly many States afford more protection to corporations engaged in natural resource exploitation than to groups peacefully protesting their activities. The shooting to death of over 30 miners in South Africa by police during a workers' strike is an egregious example of such preferential treatment. Individuals and communities opposed to natural resource exploitation activities are labelled as "anti-development" and "enemies of the State" and portrayed as undermining States' efforts to promote economic growth and development. Their activities are criminalized and their claims disregarded, while corporations continue exploitation activities.
Condicón jurídica
Non-negotiated soft law
Organismo
Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and association
Tipo de documento
Special Procedures' report
Medio de adopción
N.A.
Temas
Economic Rights
Environment
Año
2015
Tipo de párrafo
Other
Reference
SR Freedom of Assembly, Report to the UNGA (2015), A/70/266, para. 103.