On October 26, 2021, at 2:00 pm (EST), the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights will hold a landmark virtual hearing on The Impact of Extractive Industries on Human Rights and Climate Change in the Caribbean and two civil society activists from Guyana will participate.
The hearing was requested by Malene Alleyne, Jamaican human rights lawyer and Founder of Freedom Imaginaries, and Esther Figueroa, Jamaican environmental filmmaker supported by nearly ninety organizations and individuals across the Caribbean who co-signed the request.
A release from the two groups said that the hearing will focus on the impact of the mining and fossil fuels industries on the economic, social, cultural and environmental rights of women, Indigenous, Afro-descendent, and rural communities in the Caribbean.