CNCA
Today the Canadian Network on Corporate Accountability (CNCA) releases draft model legislation that provides lawmakers with a blueprint for writing into Canadian law the corporate duty to respect ...
... began in March—under which state security forces have been accused of widespread human rights abuses—advocates in El Salvador and around the world fear for the men's safety.
As Yesenia Portillo, program ...
... legislation exists which holds corporations accountable to their operations overseas.”
For decades, advocates have been calling for legally-binding regulation of the industry and accountability for human ...
... about noise, air and water pollution that have affected income from agriculture, and caused serious health problems including an increase in respiratory complaints and skin diseases.
“Reports by Advocates ...
IPS
Beverly L. Longid
Indigenous Peoples, advocates and members of IPMSDL call for continuing struggle for self-determination to combat imperialist plunder and state-terror. Credit: Carlo Manalansan, ...
... concerns and questions about the U.S. government’s involvement regarding the control of water resources.
For more than a decade, environmental organizations and water advocates have fought for a new ...
... presented a plan to guarantee the country's food security, but the plan prioritizes agribusiness operations, leaving little support for small independent producers or land rights advocates, and he does ...
... decades of unresolved ecological degradation at Canadian mining sites, and advocates say they worry it will continue to worsen under Duterte. Coumans said mining is particularly dangerous in the Philippines ...
... It was also a preparation for an environmental investigation mission (EIM) to be launched by CEC and Agham-Advocates of Science and Technology for the People at the end of the month.
Rights violations ...
... and the environmental destruction that Oceanagold’s mining caused has earned the ire of the community, environmental advocates, and even the local government officials. The ongoing barricade is a testament ...
Sakura Saunders : Now Magazine
After more than a decade of campaigning for oversight of Canadian mining corporations abroad, the feds appear to be backpedaling on gains won by human rights advocates ...
Report by IBON International
"Towards curbing OceanaGold’s dirty operations in El Salvador and the Philippines, efforts of people’s organisations, communities, environmental advocates as well as international ...
... Rights Commission also in 2014, and the case has been taken up by advocates for a Binding Treaty for business and human rights at the UN.
For Baños, all of these actions were important for raising the ...
... of this group of environmental rights advocates, who gave up their lives in the struggle to defend the national territory.
"We must continue in the fight, because our colleagues left behind the challenge ...
... Office on Latin America WOLA
Witness for Peace
World
AIDB Burundi
AGHAM-Advocates of Science and Technology for the People, Philippines
Alyansa Tigil Mina (Alliance Against Mining), Philippines ...
... of the International People’s Conference on Mining, a global gathering in 2015 of activists, advocates, experts, and grassroots leaders hailing from 29 different countries that have united in opposing ...
LEARN FROM EL SALVADOR WHO KICKED OCEANAGOLD OUT
Press Release
Amianan Salakniban, the broadest network of environmental organizations and advocates in North Luzon, Philippines, expresses their support ...
... Some academics and business human rights advocates have presented pragmatic technical arguments against a binding agreement arguing that without the goodwill of transnational corporations, any proposal ...
... unions, fair trade advocates and environmentalist gathered today (22.03.13) in front of the Sydney offices of the World Bank at noon on Friday to protest the Bank’s affiliation with the International Centre ...