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Criminalization of the Aymara People - Supreme Court Will Decide on Aduviri Case on October 5th.
20th September 2018 Cochabamba, Ottawa, Puno, Washington. On Monday September 17th at ...
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Who Decides for El Salvador: The People or Pacific Rim?
The defense of national sovereignty isn’t anti-development
May 3, 2012
San Salvador
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... to sell their projects. The struggle took international dimensions when two companies, Commerce Group and Pacific Rim (later acquired by OceanaGold), decided to sue the government of El Salvador at the ...
... including scientists and fishers, have debunked President Rodrigo Duterte’s justification for the lifting of the nine-year ban on new mining contracts.
The Duterte administration has decided to end ...
... was doing in relation to business and human rights”. Obtaining no answers, it was decided to promote an initiative which, through “due diligence” measures, forces Swiss companies to identify, prevent and ...
... million in fees (excluding expenses) on the case—get to decide whether El Salvador’s mining law … was legal? Why should a panel of three de facto judges from other countries, using a biased set of rules, ...
... oxide mine.
By 2017 the Municipal Committee for the Defence of Public and Common Goods had been created and called for public consultations so that community members could decide whether they wanted ...
... to cultivating basic grains or the production of poultry to survive. The rest of the inhabitants decide to migrate. In fact, most of the locals have at least one relative living and working in the United ...
... The judge decided that the defenders will not be able to defend themselves in freedom after she reviewed the measures requested by the defending legal team.
A group of human rights defense lawyers had ...
... the gathering of evidence, the tribunal adopted an active – as opposed to a passive – role. The Tribunal decided to go beyond and didn’t limit its determination on evidence obtained from the parties and ...
... and peaceful assembly.”
In addition to the eight men detained in 2019, a judge will soon decide whether five others, whose cases were originally dismissed, must also await trial in prison or at home. ...
... for wealth over the lives of individuals and peoples.”
This month, the case is set to be back in court, and all eyes are on Guapinol. A judge will decide whether the men should be released to face their ...
... coronavirus. This also applies to people deprived of their liberty who have not been convicted such as the Guapinol defenders.
This reform gave the power to the judges to analyse or decide what type ...
... home in Honduras by hired hitmen in 2016. A judge will decide whether the case against one of the alleged killers, David Castillo, gets sent to trial.
At least 212 land and environmental defenders were ...
... "The Police received a complaint from the mother of the injured protester and another from the company," explains Tábora. "However, they decided to investigate only the burning of the company's assets and ...
... water is vital in mining, John Morillo, a graduate student of the National Institute of Geological Science of the University of the Philippines, and I decided to do an analysis of the water use of large ...
... however, has decided to appeal the decision.
In August 2019, a second group of seven activists presented themselves to the tribunals to face similar charges and, like those cleared in March, the legal ...
... said. Ultimately, the Nevada court said the suit should be decided in either Canada, where Barrick is headquartered, or in the Philippines, where the alleged infractions took place. The suit is now on ...
... and conserve the environment.
This development even becomes more ironic as the government decided to renew this mining contract during the UN General Assembly which had tackled climate change as its ...
Thomas McDonagh and Aldo Orellana Lopez : OPEN DEMOCRACY
In the coming weeks, the Supreme Court in Peru will decide the fate of Walter Aduviri, an indigenous spokesperson and aspiring politician for ...