Camila Bustamante Álvarez
Camila Bustamante Álvarez is a woman human rights defender who works on the promotion and protection of environmental rights. She is a member of the Secretaría de Ecología y Medio Ambiente de la Federación de Estudiantes de la Universidad de Chile (Ecology and Environment Secretary of the University of Chile Student Federation) and the Movimiento por El Agua y los Territorios (Movement for Water in the Territories), where she organises social mobilisation activities to promote access to water by marginalised communities in Chile.
HRDs representing marginalised communities that continue to face difficulties in Chile are environmental and indigenous HRDs, notably from the Mapuche people, who were criminalised on several occasions on the grounds of the Chilean Anti-terrorist Act.
