Impacts of mining and human rights in Carajás/Pará

Abstract

The current intervention presents three purposes: (1) to try to expose, even if briefly, the concept of human rights that guides this analysis; (2) to suggest that the situations of economic, social and cultural rights violations are, in part, a byproduct of the political choice of an extractive development model for Latin America and the use of strategies of flexibilization, outsourcing and subcontracting of the work inherent to this model; (3) to present a small portrait of certain situations that involve of human and social rights violations in the Southeast of Pará, Carajás region, where the transnational company Vale and other business enterprises develop mining-metallurgical projects.