Europe – A New Leader for Justice in Mining
Guillermo
Otano, from the Spanish NGO Alboan, has been appointed by Frank Janin SJ,
President of Jesuit Conference of Europe, as the new coordinator of the GIAN - Justice
in Mining Network. The network began in 2010 in Ranchi, in India, and since
expanded all over the world. Guillermo in an interview shares his views on
the network. He says, “The real challenge for the coming years, in my view, is to strengthen
our ability to work together, connecting the local struggles with the global
dynamics that lay behind them. We need to collaborate in order to stop the
criminalisation of human rights defenders and those who defend our “Common
Home”; to speak out against the unethical behaviour of companies and
governments involved in mining projects; and to open a public conversation
about the environmental degradation produced by mining (specially, regarding
the use of water).”
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