{"id":2580,"date":"2017-03-10T08:25:09","date_gmt":"2017-03-10T13:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mesatransparenciaextractivas.org\/uncategorized\/sociedad-civil-de-latinoamerica-y-el-caribe-exige-transparencia-socio-ambiental-en-las-industrias-extractivas\/"},"modified":"2023-06-16T10:52:29","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T15:52:29","slug":"sociedad-civil-de-latinoamerica-y-el-caribe-exige-transparencia-socio-ambiental-en-las-industrias-extractivas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mesatransparenciaextractivas.org\/en\/news\/industry-news-en\/sociedad-civil-de-latinoamerica-y-el-caribe-exige-transparencia-socio-ambiental-en-las-industrias-extractivas\/","title":{"rendered":"Latin American and Caribbean Civil Society demands Socio-Environmental Transparency in Extractive Industries"},"content":{"rendered":"
We are representatives of civil society organizations working in Colombia, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Peru and the Dominican Republic, gathered from March 6 to 10, in the framework of the XIII Latin American Forum on Extractive Industries of the Latin American Network on Extractive Industries (RLIE) and the meeting of the International Board of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), in the city of Bogota, Colombia.<\/p>\n
As members of the EITI – an international space made up of governments, companies and civil society from 51 countries, which seeks to make information on the extractive industry (mining, oil and gas) transparent throughout the value chain – we believe that this initiative is an opportunity to promote the broadest transparency in this sector.<\/p>\n
Although several member countries have been implementing the new EITI standard, with varying degrees of progress, the local, regional and global demand of civil society and populations living in the areas where extractive activities are carried out cannot and should not be ignored: GREATER TRANSPARENCY AND ACCESS TO SOCIO-ENVIRONMENTAL INFORMATION IN ALL PROCESSES LINKED TO THIS INDUSTRY. In this sense, the organizations and social actors involved in this Initiative are calling for national EITI processes to include concrete commitments to include the disclosure of this type of information.<\/p>\n
Our countries are going through a new political and economic context marked by falling international commodity prices and declining investment. Governments have responded by relaxing socio-environmental standards, criminalizing citizen protest, rolling back transparency and accountability, reducing citizens’ right to free access to information, and granting tax privileges. In addition, we are experiencing great social conflict in the extractive sector and serious acts of corruption involving private companies, high-level officials and former presidents in Latin America and the Caribbean.<\/p>\n
Therefore, as representatives of civil society in the multi-stakeholder groups of our countries, observers and participants in the EITI processes, we endorse this statement and demand that our governments incorporate socio-environmental transparency into national processes. We believe that the inclusion of this information in national EITI reports will contribute to the reduction of social conflicts, better governance of natural resources and the promotion of human rights.<\/p>\n
Bogot\u00e1, March 7, 2017<\/p>\n
SIGN:<\/strong><\/p>\n SUPPORT<\/strong><\/p>\n PRONOUNCEMENT We are representatives of civil society organizations working in Colombia, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Peru and the Dominican Republic, gathered from March 6 to 10, in the framework of the XIII Latin American Forum on Extractive Industries of the Latin American Network on Extractive Industries (RLIE) and the meeting of the International Board of the … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2126,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry-news-en"],"yoast_head":"\n\n
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