The human right to water in the context of socio-environmental conflicts in Loreto.

The project aims to analyse the causes and circumstances that explain the systematic violation of the rights to water and prior consultation of indigenous peoples in the Peruvian Amazon, as well as local resistance strategies. More concretely, the project attempts to comprehend the following issues: (i) the production and functioning of the concepts of habitat and water, as they relate to indigenous peoples, the state and economy; (ii) the ways the consultation processes conducted eventually contribute to uphold the State's hierarchy of rights, in which state and corporate rights are considered superior to indigenous rights, thus mimicking the social hierarchy; and (iii) the resistance and defence strategies adopted by indigenous peoples, e.g. by using human rights language (localisation).

Keywords:HUMAN RIGHTS, CUBA

Disciplines:Law

Project type:Collaboration project