Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 15 October 2025
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade
Binding Treaty on Business and Human Rights at the United Nations: Discussion
2:00 am
Mr. Quelvin Otoniel Jiménez Villalta:
Yes. In the particular case of our territory, one whole community has become a ghost community. A total of 130 families had to leave because the mining impacts practically destroyed their homes. The community was divided in two because there were such huge cracks that the land practically swallowed the community. There has been no reparation on the part of the company. Instead it donated $15,000 as humanitarian aid, but with no accountability or recognition of its responsibility. A sum of $15,000 cannot get more homes or another community. The lives and livelihoods of these families have been destroyed.
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