Apples, Scientific Name: Malus domestica, Apples are a versatile fruit, used for eating, cooking, and preserving.
There are more that 7500 different kinds of apples grown around the world.
International Labour Organization
The Convention No. 169 is a central element of the contemporary international normative framework for the promotion and protection of the rights of indigenous and tribal ...
... more injustice, such as the collection of the taxes from community water systems, and the use of water supply systems that don’t consider access for the population's domestic consumption a priority.
In ...
... ratification of the human right to water in the Constitution and expedite the approval of a general water law that guarantees, as a priority, water for domestic consumption, which is economically accessible ...
... to the country’s total was 0.95% or an annual average contribution of $39.7 billion from 2002 to 2020. The average annual share of the mining and quarrying sector in the gross domestic product has been ...
... with mining assets valued at $177.8 billion.
Lang said Canada has a long history of resource extraction both domestically and abroad. She describes why Canada is a hotbed for corporate human rights abusers. ...
... anticipated the domestic industry would rebound after neighboring Indonesia, the world’s biggest nickel producer, imposed an export ban on the metal in January 2020. The Philippines, the No. 2 producer, ...
... Salvadoran civil war, there were few influential families linked to the sector. Since domestic elites in tourism and agriculture depended heavily on water, many supported the defenders or at least refrained ...
... you envision who truly has power if we unleash our imaginations and act together.”
—Ai-jen Poo, executive director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance, author of The Age of Dignity, and MacArthur ...
... domestic legal system may not provide an adequate remedy. For example, an investor may not wish to settle disputes before a host state's domestic courts for reasons of (i) fear of bias; or (ii) unfamiliarity ...
... government influence exists including within domestic decisions of El Salvador’s executive [branch].”
For a long time, control of water resources has been under ongoing threat in El Salvador, and with ...
... its acronym, ISDS—foreign investors can bypass domestic courts and bring claims directly to supranational arbitration tribunals.
A wealthy nation like the United States could conceivably face such claims ...
... project has in mind the use of “surplus water from the Tambo basin in rainy weather.” The company argues that these waters have no agricultural or domestic use and that each year more than 500 million ...
... have. It also requires investors to first exhaust domestic remedies before bringing a claim to an international tribunal.
However, Annex 14-E preserves NAFTA investor protections for disputes related ...
... remote regions domestically.
Several Canadian mining companies are also publicly traded on the Vancouver and Toronto stock exchanges. Even the Canadian Pension Plan, a publicly funded retirement plan ...
... Statistics Authority (PSA) last year showed that mining and quarrying only contributed less than two percent to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of the country compared to the seven percent made by the ...
... prize and they shared the podium with The New Orleans Workers’ Center for Racial Justice, the domestic prize winners.
Over 300 people attended the ceremony and the trip to the US was an opportunity ...
... in Free Trade Agreements and other investment protection pacts, laws, or contracts. These allow companies to bypass domestic courts and sue governments before private tribunals of highly paid corporate ...
... General Water Law, a bill that recognizes water as a human right and a common good that must be managed publicly with a focus on sustainability, priority and affordability for domestic use, as well as ...
... good that should be publicly managed with focus on sustainability, accessible domestic use and regulation of commercial and industrial use.
The debate has not always been civil, in 2007, 17 leaders ...