By Robin Broad and John Cavanagh
First published in http://tinyurl.com/lntc9dh
As the Obama administration negotiates new trade agreements with European and Pacific nations, a battle has emerged over ...
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Pacific Rim President's Claim that He Wants to Help El Salvador Leaves Many Unconvinced
A lengthy article featuring Pacific Rim CEO Tom Shrake published on June 19th by the Toronto based Globe and ...
... the five men helped lead a campaign to ban metals mining in 2017 and protect El Salvador’s primary source of clean water, the Lempa River Basin. The countrywide ban was the first of its kind anywhere in ...
... around the world. Together, we can help to raise international awareness of the country’s political crisis and to show urgently needed solidarity with the Salvadoran social movements and the community ...
... 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 ...
... yucca, we let the earth rest.
Today the climate crisis is reflected not only in Latin America, we are also seeing it in the north, in Germany, in the United States. I harbor the hope that it will helps ...
... International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes ICSID. The support of international organizations helped find technical deficiencies in the arguments of mining companies, and also helped ...
... fooled by the pretext that reopening our natural resources to large-scale mining would help revive the pandemic-battered economy as it would inflict serious damage than repair.”
Environment defenders, ...
... help respond to the widespread and egregious abuses linked to Canadian companies including forced labour, sexual violence, and murder.”
Under the CNCA’s proposed law, if a company causes harm or fails ...
... now governed by the Mining Act of 1995, which was influenced by mining corporations.
“The Philippines mining act was created with the help of a lot of mining corporations as well as government officials,” ...
... charismatic Rivera attained folk-hero status with his impersonations of a popular children’s character known as Cipitio to spread his environmentalist message. These efforts helped convince a majority ...
... of the Binding Treaty is to help put an end to impunity and abuses committed by transnational companies in territories mainly in the Global South. In 2021 the Treaty entered its seventh year of negotiations. ...
... it can now more affordably reach gold deposits that previously would have been too expensive to mine, records show.
Many locals, including Kershaw Mayor Mark Dorman, say the mine has helped the area’s ...
... claiming it had been deprived of its right to start a gold mine. Luis, you helped win that case for El Salvador's government. How big a surprise was that victory?
Luis Parada: Well, it was a very hard ...
... what pushing back against Canadian corporate interests can do. In 2011, Aduviri, an Indigenous Aymara leader from Peru’s Puno region, helped lead a protest movement against a silver mine in the region ...
... conveying the voices of the water defenders and their corporate antagonists. If you ever felt that your own contribution didn’t matter and that the powerful always win, this captivating saga will help ...
... Dubón began to use the techniques she had learned, she managed to diversify the production of food, which helped her to use her land as a demonstration plot. Her project has even received support from ...
... 15-million-year-old relatives. The species is deaf and blind, so there are concerns it won’t be able to sidestep mining operations as Oceanagold’s work ramps up.
The company offered to help relocate ...
... as possible can help other communities to coordinate and fortify their own resistance strategies. In this regard, Equinox Gold’s intransigence and arrogance toward Carrizalillo is only supplying more evidence ...