Mexico: Human Rights at Risk in La Parota Dam Project

Mexico: Human Rights at Risk in La Parota Dam Project

Index Number: AMR 41/029/2007
Date Published: 4 August 2007
Categories: Mexico, Americas

Amnesty International has prepared the present briefing in order to highlight human rights concerns associated with La Parota hydroelectric dam. It focuses in particular on the rights of affected communities to information, to participation in decisions on development projects which affect the exercise of their human rights, to consultation and to effective legal remedy. It also highlights concerns about the displacement of local communities, which may amount to forced eviction, and instances of violence and intimidation that have surrounded the project.