The influence of extractive companies on police action in socio-environmental conflicts in Peru: analysis and legal contributions from the cases of Xstrata and Yanacocha companies in the period 2011-2012
The influence of extractive companies on police action in socio-environmental conflicts in Peru: analysis and legal contributions from the cases of Xstrata and Yanacocha companies in the period 2011-2012
Date
2018
Authors
Ccotarma Ttito, Sally Sumico
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Publisher
Global Campus of Human Rights
Abstract
This research analyses the influence that extractive companies
have on police intervention through extraordinary services in socioenvironmental
conflicts, in the Peruvian regions of Cusco and
Cajamarca between 2011-2012. In this context, we developed a legal
analysis of regulations in connection with this activity, the subscribed
agreements signed by the State and by the companies, and other judicial
and police documents, were identified as evidence which might allow
or suppose the existence of unconstitutionality, the degree of influence
exercised by these companies, possible human rights infringements, the
responsibility of companies and the rationale for such a police-based
approach.
Keywords: Police intervention, extractive companies, socio-environmental
conflicts
Description
LATMA - Master’s Programme in Human Rights and Democratisation in Latin America and the Caribbean, University of San Martin (Buenos Aires)
Global Campus - Latin America-Caribbean
Second semester University: University of Buenos Aires
Global Campus - Latin America-Caribbean
Second semester University: University of Buenos Aires
Keywords
Peru,
police,
social conflict,
environment,
natural resources,
corporations