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1. Anti-mining community, Gina Lopez awarded as heroes for the environment: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... Police in order to force fuel tankers in the mining site; a local leader was arrested but also bailed out the following day. Gina Lopez’s ‘maverick leadership” remembered A posthumous award was also ...; Created on 07 October 2020
2. Honduran Land Defenders Receive the prestigious Letelier-Moffit award in Washington: (Regional News); ... known group of environmental activists from Tocoa, a remote city in the northern Atlantic coast of Honduras, were awarded the prestigious Letelier-Moffit Human Rights Award in a packed ceremony held in ...; Created on 24 October 2019
3. DHUMA Receives Letelier Moffitt International Human Rights Award: (Regional News); ... to the promotion of culture, autonomy and indigenous self-determination. Each year the prize is awarded to one national and one international winner. This year DHUMA was the winner of the international ...; Created on 16 September 2019
4. 250+ Groups Call On El Salvador to Drop Charges Against Water Defenders: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... on Metals Mining, a coalition the arrested men helped build, with its annual Letelier-Moffitt Human Rights Award. The collective demand that Bukele's government "drop the charges against the five water ...; Created on 20 January 2023
5. MIRIAN MIRANDA: There is a genocidal plan against the Garífuna people: (Regional News); ... de Honduras, CONPAH) and the current coordinator of the Honduran Black Fraternal Organization (OFRANEH). Miriam Miranda - recipient of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation Human Rights Award in 2019 - has ...; Created on 25 December 2021
6. To the General Public, The Peaceful Resistance of La Puya states: (La Puya International Support Letter); ... a provisional writ awarded by the Supreme Court of Justice in 2015. 2. In 2016, the Public Prosecutor’s Office carried out proceedings as a result of an investigation into the mining company for illegal ...; Created on 23 May 2021
7. Environmental activists are being killed in Honduras over their opposition to mining: (Regional News); ... in Tocoa. The Institute for Policy Studies, Washington’s first progressive multi-issue think tank, awarded the community committee with the international Letelier-Moffitt Human Rights award. In 2020, ...; Created on 06 May 2021
8. El Salvador’s Water Defenders and the Fight Against Toxic Mining: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... was selected to win the Institute for Policy Studies (where Cavanagh works) Letelier-Moffitt Human Rights Award. They briefly describe Rivera’s disappearance and eventual discovery, murdered, at the bottom ...; Created on 11 April 2021
9. An unlikely eco-alliance in postwar El Salvador: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... of that award, starting another process that could last another two years. So, yes, it was a welcome surprise. Marco Werman: So what do you think this experience says about how political change is happening ...; Created on 22 March 2021
10. NEW BOOK: The water defenders - how ordinary people saved a country from corporate greed: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... awardee “Broad and Cavanagh are masterful storytellers. The words, deeds, and stories of people in El Salvador come alive so vividly in these pages to reinforce what we in the Poor People’s Campaign ...; Created on 14 January 2021
11. Disputes against governments under investment treaties: a growing trend in the mining industry in 2020: (ISDS); ... for investors. The most common remedy is monetary damages, which is frequently honoured without the need for enforcement. However, if a State fails to honour an award, investors may take various measures ...; Created on 06 January 2021
12. 2020 in Review: Latin America and Investment Arbitration: (ISDS); ... such as enhanced consistency, but also weaknesses, such as the replacement of parts of the traditional system, like the finality of awards. The Odebrecht scandal: What’s the burden of proof to prove ...; Created on 19 December 2020
13. Sakharov Prize 2020: the nominees: (Mining and Human Rights); EuroNews The Parliament awards the Sakharov Prize every year to honour exceptional individuals and organisations defending human rights and fundamental freedoms. In 2019 the prize was awarded to Ilham ...; Created on 29 September 2020
14. After trying to protect water sources, these Hondurans have been held without bail for more than a year.: (Mining and Human Rights); ... Committee in Defense of Common and Public Goods were victims of a defamation campaign while they were in Washington to receive an international human rights award for their environmental activism. Pinares ...; Created on 25 September 2020
15. More ISDS cases launched against Latin American states amid the COVID-19 pandemic: (ISDS); ... tribunal has ordered Guatemala to pay the US electricity corporation TECO US$21 million. With interest, this award is worth US$36.5 million today. The order had to be confirmed by a US court. Having ...; Created on 01 September 2020
16. New Report: Mining Injustice Through International Arbitration: Countering Kappes, Cassiday & Associates’ Claims over a Gold-mining Project in Guatemala: (Regional News); ... ignores or even awards corporate abuses by enabling private companies to sue national governments over matters of public interest, such as the devastating social and environmental impacts of mining. “KCA’s ...; Created on 24 August 2020
17. The Honduran government intensifies persecution against defenders of the Guapinol River: (Regional News); ... mining concessions awarded to the company Inversiones Los Pinares / Ecotek. We call on the international community, mainly the multilateral institutions that defend human rights, to demand an end to ...; Created on 20 August 2020
18. Corporate Lawsuits Could Devastate Poor Countries Grappling with COVID-19: (FTAs & ISDS); ... how much governments have had to pay out. At the Institute for Policy Studies, we’ve tallied up at least $72.4 billion in awards governments have been ordered to pay foreign investors in cases related ...; Created on 23 July 2020
19. Environmentalists commemorate the 11th anniversary of the murder of Marcelo Rivera: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... including his brother Miguel, and Vidalina here present, came to Washington in 2009 to receive the international award of Rights Human, Letelier-Moffit. The award that the IPS gives each year in honor ...; Created on 15 July 2020
20. Water, transparency and mining concerns in the Philippines: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... mine in Barangay Didipio in Kasibu, Province of Nueva Vizcaya. A Financial or Technical Assistance Agreement (FTAA) was awarded to OGPI in 1994, but the company only started its full operations in 2011. ...; Created on 08 March 2020

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