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1. Disputes against governments under investment treaties: a growing trend in the mining industry in 2020: (ISDS); ... Of the approximately 50 cases brought before ICSID in 2020, more than 20% concern mining concessions. This is a significant increase on previous years (2019: 10%; 2018: 10%; 2017: 0%). In this article, ...; Created on 06 January 2021
2. 2020 in Review: Latin America and Investment Arbitration: (ISDS); Kluewer Arbitration Blog In 2020, we witnessed a number of interesting developments in the field of investment arbitration in Latin America. From the entry into force of the United States – Mexico – ...; Created on 19 December 2020
3. Sakharov Prize 2020: the nominees: (Mining and Human Rights); ... candidate at the 2010 election. Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya is a teacher, human rights activist and politician who after her husband's arrest participated in the 2020 Belarusian presidential ...; Created on 29 September 2020
4. MIRIAN MIRANDA: There is a genocidal plan against the Garífuna people: (Regional News); ... territories. In addition, several Garífuna communities are experiencing forced displacement. One of them is Triunfo de la Cruz, where 400 families left the community in 2019, and in July 2020, during ...; Created on 25 December 2021
5. The law on the right to water reaches Parliament, "people's lives are at stake" warns Cardinal Rosa Chav: (Water Crisis El Salvador); ... and sanitation as a right is also pending in the Legislative Assembly. The provision, approved by the previous legislature, requires 56 votes to enter into force (see Fides, 17/10/2020). Hundreds of Salvadorans ...; Created on 15 June 2021
6. Anglo American files lawsuit against Colombia: (ISDS); ... a figure that remained stable compared to the previous year, but the rail blockades in February and again throughout May limited supply to the maritime market. Cerrejón exported 13.6 million tons in 2020, ...; Created on 08 June 2021
7. Scientists, fishers say new mining deals to cause more damage than good: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... made up 0.5% of the total excise taxes and 0.07% of total taxes in 2020. The sector’s annual average share in total employment from 2001 to 2020 was 0.49%. Share of the sector’s foreign direct investments ...; Created on 24 May 2021
8. Why Canada is at the centre of global mining atrocities: (Mining and Human Rights); ... oil and gas and mining industries (for example, the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan’s 2020 investment portfolio included $4 billion in assets in the mining and oil and gas sectors); fundraising for impacted ...; Created on 12 May 2021
9. Pan American Silver Pressured to Shut Down Community Interference in Guatemala: (Mining and Human Rights); ... government agencies, and NGOs.” In September 2020, the company announced the launch of a “participatory monitoring program” in the municipality where the mine is located. In response to a letter sent ...; Created on 12 May 2021
10. Environmental activists are being killed in Honduras over their opposition to mining: (Regional News); The Conversation Giada Ferrucci Two men shot Arnold Joaquín Morazán Erazo to death in his home in Tocoa, Honduras, one night in October 2020. Morazán was an environmental activist and one of 32 people ...; Created on 06 May 2021
11. A New Environmentalist Playbook An improbable victory in El Salvador offers lessons for grassroots activists worldwide: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... hammer home the point. The 2020 “Lawless Amazon” project by the Brazilian media outlet Agência Pública details how mining, sugar, and cattle interests have overrun indigenous communities in their drive ...; Created on 23 April 2021
12. Swiss mining transnational Glencore in the Andes: (General mining reports ); Terra Justa The mining giant's activities in Latin America and how they demonstrate the need for a binding instrument on Business and Human Rights. In June 2020, a statement signed by more than 200 ...; Created on 22 April 2021
13. Australian-Canadian mining company OceanaGold misleads public on Filipino mine: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... mine include the violent dispersal of protesters in 2009 and 2020. The UN High Commission for Human Rights is concerned. It said that last year around 100 police forcibly dispersed some 30 indigenous and ...; Created on 22 April 2021
14. ‘Complete turnaround’: Philippines’ Duterte lifts ban on new mining permits: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... him ban open-pit mining in 2017 and close or suspend 26 mining operations for environmental violations. The government says the industry, which contributed 0.76% to the country’s GDP in 2020, is important ...; Created on 15 April 2021
15. Families complain about big SC gold mine, citing danger and community disruption: (OceanaGold); ... it had fined the mine $11,200. Among the problems were excessive water releases of thallium, a toxic material used in rat poison. Later in 2020, DHEC said it had fined the Kershaw Mineral Lab more than ...; Created on 02 April 2021
16. Gold mine expansion could produce $2.5 billion. But environmental problems linger: (OceanaGold); ... late 2020 at the site between Columbia and Charlotte, state and federal records show. The 2020 wastewater discharge violations, disclosed this week by the Department of Health and Environmental Control, ...; Created on 30 March 2021
17. Urgent Action: Immediately release Guapinol defenders in high risk: (Mining and Human Rights); ... 85/2020, the Working Group stressed that there is no legal reason for the use of pre-trial detention in the case of defenders José Daniel Márquez Márquez, Kelvin Alejandro Romero Martínez, José Abelino ...; Created on 14 March 2021
18. Parliamentary Petition Calls on Canada to Act on Human Rights Abuses in the Philippines: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... Witness,” said Patricia Lisson of ICHRP-Canada (International Coalition for Human Rights in the Philippines-Canada). “In 2020, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights issued a report highlighting ...; Created on 25 February 2021
19. US Senators introduce bill to tackle corruption & rights violations in Honduras - cite Guapinol case: (Mining and Human Rights); ... Impunity in Honduras (MACCIH) in January 2020. Collusion among government officials, security forces, and organized crime in the knowledge and perpetration of human rights abuses remains unchecked, with ...; Created on 23 February 2021
20. A Private Government in Honduras Moves Forward: (Mining and Human Rights); ... Since May 2020, two ZEDEs have been officially launched: the “Honduras Próspera” ZEDE (PZ) on Roatán where Crawfish Rock is located, and the “Ciudad Morazán” ZEDE in the industrial town of Choloma. The ...; Created on 15 February 2021

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