The 1,500 km long
tourist megaproject “Maya Train” is set to bulldoze its way through
the last remaining forests of southern Mexico -- despite
serious human and environmental rights concerns.
Now,
a local activist group in Mexico, Kanan
Human Rights, have a plan to stop this: they are taking the Maya
Train to court! Though they have won some of their appeals,
they are facing some major roadblocks as federal courts don't want
to talk about human rights violations.
This is how you can
help -- Kanan wants the most authoritative court in Mexico
to take the case, as it can do a much deeper
analysis.
Kanan is convinced that the Mexican Supreme
Court will affirm what we already know: that the Maya Train violates
the rights of Indigenous Peoples', campesinos, and various local
communities, as well as a long list of environmental
rights.
Sign
here to tell the Mexican Supreme Court to take up the Maya Train
case.
Officially, the construction of the train
requires an Environmental Impact Assessment -- but Kanan noticed
serious irregularities in the assessment process, which
makes the assessment incomplete and inapplicable. For example, the
information disclosed to the public was incomplete.
There was neither mention of environmental damages to the cenotes
nor of the conservation and soil restoration
programs.
Kanan Human Rights has filed an appeal for
review of the sentence -- and they want it to be resolved
by the highest court in Mexico: the Supreme Court of Justice of the
Nation.
This is not the first time the SumOfUs
Community supports a court case and wins it.
Together we helped Maxima Acuna stop Newmont Mining's mine
development in Peru. Her heroic efforts won her the Green
Nobel Prize.
Today, we can come together and put an
end to the harmful Maya Train project. The more signatures
we get, the more likely it is the Court will accept taking the
case.
Will
you sign here so that Mexico's highest court will review the Maya
Train case, and we can win?
