Webinar: Community-Owned Water Baseline Data
Science and Human Rights for Community Power Building
Wednesday, June 8, 2022 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM EDT
Zoom Webinar
View this page in Haitian Creole: https://cssr.gmu.edu/events/13479
This webinar focuses on the right to water in communities impacted by Haiti’s three gold mining and exploitation permits. The “spillover” effects of gold mining in Haiti have serious implications for water and other natural resources, extending its impact on local communities.
The Global Justice Clinic at New York University Law School has provided technical support to the Kolektif Jistis Min (Justice in Mining Collective, or KJM), a group of Haitian social movement organizations formed to support communities in Haiti’s mineral belt and to encourage a national dialogue about the industry. KJM’s aim is to educate affected communities on the consequences of mining for water as well as the environment, work, agriculture, and land, to push for national transparency and a debate on mining.
Our panelists include human rights and legal experts Margaret Satterwaite and Ellie Happel from the Global Justice Clinic, hydrologists Beth Hoagland and Tess Russo, and Haitian activist and organizer Olriche Jean Pierre from KJM. Dr. John Dale, Director of Movement Engaged and Associate Professor of Sociology at George Mason University, will moderate the panel.
They will discuss the lessons they have learned from the dialogue between scientific and local indigenous knowledge produced during their collaboration, and how these forms of knowledge may shape and become shaped by human rights principles and law. Additionally, the panel address the Importance of community participation and leadership in every phase of the study, and the challenges of negotiating when local knowledge versus scientific knowledge (or human rights principles) should prevail; how to translate data into advocacy for community rights, particularly in the context of an absent State; and how generalizable their project might be for contexts outside Haiti.
Note: This Zoom webinar will provide simultaneous translation channels in Haitian Creole and English. Attendees can choose the channel they prefer.
Speakers:
Margaret L. Satterthwaite
She is a Professor of Clinical Law and director of the Global Justice Clinic in addition to being the faculty director for the Robert L. Bernstein Institute for Human Rights and the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice (CHRGJ). Her recent scholarship involves cross-disciplinary work to advance the evidence base for human rights advocacy.
Ellie Happel
She is the co-Director of Haiti Justice and International Accountability Project, Global Justice Clinic, NYU Law. She seeks to prevent violations by advancing Human Rights in Haiti’s Emerging Mining Sector. Prior to law school, Ellie worked in environmental justice and public health in Nicaragua, Bolivia, Peru, and Washington, D.C.
Beth Hoagland
She is a hydrologist at S.S. Papadopulos & Associates where she works on contaminant fate and transport, biogeochemistry, groundwater/surface water interactions, and human impacts on water resources. Beth has experience in field investigations, analytical chemistry, transdisciplinary collaboration.
Tess Russo
She is a hydrologist and Senior Program Officer at Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation she has experience Researching water-climate-food relationships, agricultural water management, agrochemical solute transport, and hydroclimate trends.
Olriche Jean Pierre
He is Haiti research lead for the Global Justice Clinic and a activist and organizer with the The Kolektif Jistis Min (''Justice in Mining Collective''), a Haitian civil society organization.
Moderator:
John Dale
He is Director of Movement Engaged Research Hub, Center for Social Science Research at George Mason University and Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology (GMU).
This webinar is part of the Science and Human Rights Webinar Series, co-sponsored by the Science and Human Rights Coalition of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Movement Engaged Research Hub of the Center for Social Science Research at George Mason University.
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