César Estrada is a human rights defender from Peru. He is a journalist and a member of the Red de Comunicadores Indigenas del Perú – REDCIP (Network of Indigenous Communicators in Peru).He has reported on several human rights violations concerning land disputes in his native region and environmental issues related to the Conga Mining Project in the region of Cajamarca. Indeed, the soil of his...
Defenders of land, environmental rights and corporate accountability
These defenders face different forms of surveillance, attacks, enforced disappearances or defamatory campaigns where they are presented as hostile to the progress and development in their countries. They face substantial obstacles in pursuing the promotion and the protection of human rights as many States do not have binding legal tools to condemn human rights violations perpetrated by companies.
