Rodrigo Mundaca

Rodrigo Mundaca in Petorca , Chile

Rodrigo Mundaca Cabrera (born May 13, 1961 ) is a Chilean agricultural engineer and activist for the right to free access to water as a public good and an essential human right. He is the spokesman for MODATIMA Movimiento de Defensa por el acceso al Agua, la Tierra y la protección del Medio Ambiente (in German: "Movement to defend access to water, the earth and environmental protection"). Because of his commitment in this area, he was awarded the Nuremberg International Human Rights Prize in 2018 (for handover in September 2019) .

Life path

In connection with his work in defense of free access to water, Rodrigo Mundaca has been prosecuted several times in Chile. Between 2012 and 2014, emphasized the Nuremberg jury, Mundaca had to answer 24 times before Chilean courts for his actions as spokesman for the organization he led. Mundaca is under constant police protection due to the intimidation, threats and persecution he endured following a campaign launched by Amnesty International in his defense. In June 2018, Amnesty International handed 50,000 signatures to the regional prosecutor for Valparaíso , Pablo Gómez Niada, calling for the authorities to provide effective protection for Mundaca and the members of MODATIMA, and called for immediate reporting of any criminal activity against these human rights defenders. The activities of Rodrigo Mundaca and MODATIMA in the last few years have mainly focused on those administrative offenses that hinder free access to water, such as the fountain illegally built in the river bed of the Petorca and Ligua rivers, as well as the irresponsible water consumption by large private companies that operate on the slopes of the region a massive avocado - monoculture operate, so that the small farmers in the area have no more water and even the drinking water supply in rural areas throughout the province of Petorca is questioned.

Publications

Mundaca is the author of numerous articles on environmental issues. In 2015 he published a book in which he summarized the problem of the right to water in connection with its privatization in Chile and stated that there was water robbery in Chile: in Chile the water was almost completely privatized.

Rodrigo Mundaca: La privatización de las aguas en Chile. Causas y resistencias . América en Movimiento, Santiago de Chile, ISBN 978-956-358-289-5 .

Remarks

↑ Various of his articles from 2012 - 2013 can be found under a free license on the CEPRID website

Individual evidence

↑ Rodrigo Mundaca it reconocido con el Premio Internacional de Derechos Humanos de Nuremberg. MODATIMA website, October 27, 2018, accessed October 28, 2018 .
^ Human rights award for Rodrigo Mundaca from Chile. Die Welt, October 22, 2018, accessed October 28, 2018 .
^ Prize for human rights to project partner Rodrigo Mundaca. Heinrich Böll Foundation , October 22, 2018, accessed on October 28, 2018 .
^ Premio a defensor chileno del derecho al agua. 24horas- Televisión Nacional de Chile - Deutsche Welle, October 25, 2018, accessed on October 27, 2018 (Spanish).
^ El chileno Mundaca, premiado en Alemania por su lucha por el acceso al agua. La Vanguardia, October 22, 2018, accessed October 22, 2018 (Spanish).
↑ Unámonos a los y las valientes: Mantengamos a salvo a Rodrigo Mundaca. Amnesty International , accessed October 22, 2018 (Spanish).
↑ CHILE Las autoridades deben proteger a Rodrigo Mundaca ya otrxs defensorxs del medio ambiente. Amnesty International , June 8, 2018, accessed October 24, 2018 (Spanish).
↑ Nuremberg Human Rights Prize. The fight for water. Bayerischer Rundfunk, October 22, 2018, accessed on October 25, 2018 .
^ Libro sobre la privatización de las aguas en Chile fue presentado en Temuco y Concepción. Mapuexpres, accessed October 28, 2018 .
↑ Karl Boehm Forest Porta: The Chilean and German water law compared . In: Contributions to European and international law . No. 16 , 2018, ISBN 978-3-86829-952-6 ( uni-halle.de [PDF; accessed October 28, 2018]).

personal data
SURNAME	Mundaca, Rodrigo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Mundaca Cabrera, Rodrigo (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Chilean agricultural engineer and human rights activist
DATE OF BIRTH	May 13, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH	Chile

[9] Various of his articles from 2012 - 2013 can be found under a free license on the CEPRID website

[1] Rodrigo Mundaca it reconocido con el Premio Internacional de Derechos Humanos de Nuremberg. MODATIMA website, October 27, 2018, accessed October 28, 2018 .

[2] Human rights award for Rodrigo Mundaca from Chile. Die Welt, October 22, 2018, accessed October 28, 2018 .

[3] Prize for human rights to project partner Rodrigo Mundaca. Heinrich Böll Foundation , October 22, 2018, accessed on October 28, 2018 .

[4] Premio a defensor chileno del derecho al agua. 24horas- Televisión Nacional de Chile - Deutsche Welle, October 25, 2018, accessed on October 27, 2018 (Spanish).

[5] El chileno Mundaca, premiado en Alemania por su lucha por el acceso al agua. La Vanguardia, October 22, 2018, accessed October 22, 2018 (Spanish).

[6] Unámonos a los y las valientes: Mantengamos a salvo a Rodrigo Mundaca. Amnesty International , accessed October 22, 2018 (Spanish).

[7] CHILE Las autoridades deben proteger a Rodrigo Mundaca ya otrxs defensorxs del medio ambiente. Amnesty International , June 8, 2018, accessed October 24, 2018 (Spanish).

[8] Nuremberg Human Rights Prize. The fight for water. Bayerischer Rundfunk, October 22, 2018, accessed on October 25, 2018 .

[10] Libro sobre la privatización de las aguas en Chile fue presentado en Temuco y Concepción. Mapuexpres, accessed October 28, 2018 .

[11] Karl Boehm Forest Porta: The Chilean and German water law compared . In: Contributions to European and international law . No. 16 , 2018, ISBN 978-3-86829-952-6 ( uni-halle.de [PDF; accessed October 28, 2018]).