Comments on Bill 2.788/2019 on the National Policy on the Rights of Populations Affected by Dams

• Autor(a) principal: Homa - Centro de Derechos Humanos y Empresas
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por; spa; eng
• Título da fonte: Homa Publica (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufjf.br/index.php/HOMA/article/view/32831
• topic: Direitos Humanos e Empresas; PL 2.788/2019; Atingidos; Barragens; Mineração; Human Rights and Business; Bill 2.788/2019; Affected; Dams; Mining; Derechos Humanos y Empresas; PL 2.788/2019; Afectados; Represas; Minería

The paper analyzes the Bill 2.788/2019, under way in the Federal Senate, which aims to establish a national policy on the rights of the populations affected by dams. It presents the tension between development and human rights, manifested in the clashes between such enterprises and the surrounding communities. It highlights the history of organization and struggle of people affected by dams in grassroots movements. It registers the evolution of national legal norms on the subject and highlights the absence of a legal normative framework that institutes rights to the affected populations, which forces them to establish direct negotiations with the enterprises themselves, in flagrant imbalance of forces. It comments on the provisions contained in the current version of the Bill, with additions to the original text, and discusses possibilities for improving the text, highlighting the importance of overcoming the current model to ensure effective protection of the Human Rights of those communities.