Complaint > Food and Agriculture Health and Quality Management Program (CCLIP)

Filing: Request received by Executive Secretariat

...children are poisoned by lower amounts of pesticides than adults. Because of their immature development, they are more susceptible than adults to the effects of poison. Children’s livers and other organs often do not have the capacity to break down certain pesticides. Their immune systems are not fully developed, which heightens the risk of acquiring diseases. Children living in the countryside are in contact with the pesticides used in the agricultural environment that surrounds them; therefore...

Complaint > Productive Infrastructure Program - Request II: Caracol Industrial Park (MICI)

Filing: Complaint

...children. Post-displacement, victims have found it difficult to finance their children’s education as a result of the loss of income.234 Unfortunately, as a result of these financial difficulties, it is likely that female children suffered disproportionately a loss of education: victims are likely to have prioritized their male children for education, with female children expected to take on tasks at home.235 Better inclusion of the views of women would likely have raised the priority of food se...

Complaint > Ituango Hydropower Plant

Filing: Request Receipt

...laboraron los grupos intere- to sus posiciones. sados y los grupos de estudio. Estas lecciones se elaboraron en reuniones de uno o dos días con Después de recoger los datos, de programas en el los grupos interesados, con a veces entre 60 y 70 terreno, de recopilación de insumos y análisis, el participantes. La Secretaría también se preocupó grupo de estudio elaboraba un borrador de infor- d...