... Against the Privatization of Water considered the approval of the General Water Law to be of paramount importance, in view of the serious affectations experienced by citizens due to the lack of this vital ...
PRESS RELEASE: National Roundtable Against Metallic Mining
For many years El Salvador has faced serious environmental degradation provoked in its majority by industrial processes of big corporations. ...
... unfavorable conditions for metal mining, Pacific Rim/OceanaGold has intensified its actions to blackmail the government of President Salvador Sanchez Ceren to cede to negotiations in the case arbitrated ...
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* As of the 2009 coup, Honduras became a perfect political laboratory to destroy the institutions, says Miriam Miranda, coordinator of the Honduran Black Fraternal Organization ...
... 2015 that suspended the mine for lack of prior consultation with local communities. While the seizure order is lifted, the mine must remain closed until a consultation process takes place.
The Peaceful ...
... fundamentally prone to environmental destruction, climate disruption, and human rights violations."
"We also believe that we still lack rigorous economic plans for national industrialization, agrarian ...
... the lack of prior, free and informed consultation.
As a result, Arana insisted on respect for the principle of good faith and respect for Xinka rights as Indigenous peoples “We hope that the good will ...
... points out, the Canadian government is heavily invested in the mining sector, which explains its lack of meaningful action on this issue.
It bears a striking resemblance to the Stephen Harper government’s ...
... then by court order for discrimination and lack of prior consultation with the Xinka people.
Most recently, on April 14, unknown assailants fired shots at the home of one of the Xinka representatives ...
... basis for having detained the defenders and even less so for continuing to detain them. The group took into account that the charges initially filed against the defenders were dismissed for lack of evidence, ...
... technical capacity to regulate transnational companies; or finally because transnationals can easily escape the jurisdiction of the States or incur commercial blackmail, etc. “Due to all this we have to ...
... channeled through “local elites in the artisanal small-scale mining (ASM) firms,” a study notes.
“This support to more mining projects will encourage more Chinese investments to extract nickel, black ...
... sacred Apache lands.
And across the country, the Poor People’s Campaign is uniting many of these struggles with the demand for clean and affordable water for the 14 million Americans who lack it — from ...
... is COVID positive.
In addition, there are at least 15 more positive cases in the Olanchito detention center but the number may be much higher given the overcrowded conditions and lack of prevention measures. ...
... commission retracted its request.
“Although many details are blacked out, these records paint a damning picture,” says Emily Dwyer, Coordinator of the Canadian Network on Corporate Accountability. “Canadian ...
... at the consular level in the Philippines and through its lack of corporate accountability mechanisms at home. “When some of the villagers were falsely accused, facing threats of extrajudicial killing because ...
... Honduran lawyers who lack the means to adapt to a new common law practice. For example, Próspera has created a legal framework called "Roatán Common Law Code" that compiles a large set of norms on private ...
... States can link with allies abroad to build power and win.”
—Opal Tometi, cofounder, Black Lives Matter
“This story of how everyday citizens, against implacable odds, managed to defeat a corporation ...
... This includes, for example, a failure to protect an investor's legitimate expectations; lack of good faith; lack of procedural fairness, due process or transparency; lack of a stable and predictable framework ...
... here was wilderness, there was nothing, maybe an Indian lemon tree, when I moved in with him (Juan),” says Haydee. Her partner worked as a security guard and left his position due to the lack of timely ...