While natural resources can generate wealth, countries that depend on this wealth often suffer greater corruption, social unrest, and human rights violations. We believe people have a right to participate in decisions that affect their lives.
Around the world, mining interests are robbing rural communities of their health, well-being, and rights; in a town in Guatemala, they robbed a teenage activist of her life.
A decade-long effort to preserve biodiversity along the lower Mekong River
succeeds in curbing illegal fishing and forest cutting, and in enabling people
to exercise their rights.