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Corporate Impunity in Taucamarca: 19 Years On, Still No Justice

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 July 2019

Luis GOMERO OSORIO ,
Douglas MURRAY  and
Erika ROSENTHAL
Luis GOMERO OSORIO
Affiliation:
Red de Acción en Agricultura Alternativa, Universidad Científica del Sur-UCSUR
Douglas MURRAY
Affiliation:
Department of Sociology, Colorado State University
Erika ROSENTHAL*
Affiliation:
Earthjustice
*
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Keywords

childrencorporate accountabilitypesticide poisoningPeru
Type
Developments in the Field – Special Issue on Agribusiness and Accountability
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Business and Human Rights Journal , Volume 4 , Issue 2 , July 2019 , pp. 329 - 336
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© Cambridge University Press 2019 

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2 WHO, Recommended Classification of Pesticides by Hazard, International Programme on Chemical Safety (Geneva: WHO, 1996).

3 Decreto Supremo No. 15-95-AG: Reglamento Sobre el Registro, Comercialización y Control de Plaguicidas Agrícolas y Sustancias Afines 1995 (Peru).

4 Congreso de la República, Comisión Agraria, note 1, 51.

5 Bayer, ‘Communiqué’, El Correo (24 October 2001).

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11 Werner Wenning, the Chairman of the Board of Management of German parent company, Bayer AG, spent five years working at Bayer’s Peruvian subsidiary, Bayer Industrial S.A.

12 Montoro, Ymelda, Moreno, Rocio, Gomero, Luis and Reyes, Maria, ‘Características de Uso de Plaguicidas Químicos y Riesgos para la Salud en Agricultores de la Sierra Central del Perú’ (2009) 26:4 Revista Peruana de Medicina Experimental y Salud Pública 466–472.Google Scholar

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14 Parathion metílic/Folidol 2.5% PS: Cancelación y prohibición del registro R.J. Nº 182-2000-AG-SENASA (Peru).

15 United Nations General Assembly, ‘Human Rights and Transnational Corporations and Other Business Enterprises. Promotion and Protection of Human Rights: Human Rights Questions’ (18 July 2017), https://documents-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/N17/218/65/PDF/N1721865.pdf?OpenElement (accessed 3 March 2019).

16 Ibid.

17 Human Rights Council, ‘Report of the Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food. Note by the Secretariat’, A/HRC/34/48 (24January 2017) para II. A. 10, https://documents-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/G17/017/85/PDF/G1701785.pdf?OpenElement (accessed 3 March 2019).

18 Claudia Toro and Edgar Jara, ‘Confirmado: Veneno Mató a Niños’, La República (28 September 2011), https://larepublica.pe/sociedad/578535-confirmado-veneno-mato-a-ninos (accessed 3 March 2019).

19 Gobierno Regional de Ica, Dirección Regional de Salud, ‘Nota de Prensa Nº 061-2012-GORE-ICA/DIRESA/OC: Mas de 300 Trabajadores de Fundo Agrícola Resultaron Intoxicados por Inhalación de Organo Fosforados en Santiago’ (16 October 2012), http://www.diresaica.gob.pe/attachments/article/699/NP-061-2012.pdf (accessed 3 March 2019).

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