ÉtudesDeuxième partie : droits territoriaux et peuples autochtones

Indigenous women leading the defense of human rights from abuses related to mega-projects: Impacting corporate behavior — overcoming silencing practices[Notice]

  • Nancy R. Tapias Torrado

Nancy R. Tapias Torrado is a Colombian human rights lawyer (U. Javeriana; U. Essex), doctor in Sociology (U. Oxford) and postdoctoral fellow in the Faculty of Political Science and Law at the UQAM. Her research focuses on the impact of social movement organizations led by Indigenous women on the practice of corporate actors involved in mega-projects in the Americas. For almost a decade and until 2015, she was the Researcher on the Situation of Human Rights Defenders in the Americas with Amnesty International. She has consulted for the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the Center for Justice and International Law and Peace Brigades International, among others.

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