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1. Human Rights Advocates and Legal Experts Deliver Blueprint for New International Corporate Accountability Law in Canada: (Mining and Human Rights); ... Similar laws are in place or being developed in several countries. Canada, however, is falling behind. Instead of legally requiring companies to respect human rights and the environment, Canada encourages ...; Created on 21 May 2021
2. ATM Statement on illegal entry of fuel trucks in Nueva Vizcaya: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); PRESS RELEASE Nov. 26. 2020 Quezon City - Alyansa Tigil Mina strongly condemns the illegal forceful entry today of five fuel trucks by Oceana Gold Philippines, Inc. (OGPI) in Brgy. Didipio, Kasibu, ...; Created on 28 November 2020
3. Legal Defense: Honduran Courts Rule to Sustain Political Persecution in Guapinol Case: (Regional News); ConexiHon Legal Defense: Honduran Courts Rule to Sustain Political Persecution in Guapinol Case, August 17, 2020 Late last week, defense lawyers for the more than 20 environmental defenders from Tocoa, ...; Created on 18 August 2020
4. The obscure legal system that lets corporations sue countries: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); Claire Provost and Matt Kennard - The Guardian Fifty years ago, an international legal system was created to protect the rights of foreign investors. Today, as companies win billions in damages, insiders ...; Created on 11 July 2015
5. Facing Goliath: CIEL lends David a (legal) hand: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... the brief counters Pac Rim’s argument that legal requirements and procedures established under Salvadoran law are only formalities, on the basis that human rights law requires the State to set up a robust ...; Created on 06 August 2014
6. URGENT COMMUNIQUE: To the people of Asuncion Mita, the national and international community: (Cerro Blanco); ... but to favor big business. The statement published by the Ministry of Energy and Mines states that the consultation, which the rejection of mining projects, "lacks a legal basis" and therefore "it lacks ...; Created on 23 September 2022
7. The Cerro Blanco mine and the right to consultation: (Cerro Blanco); ... by issuing a public statement declaring the referendum illegal and not sanctioned by the government of Guatemala, however, local activists said that neither the ministry nor the company has jurisdiction ...; Created on 22 September 2022
8. PRESS RELEASE: The municipal consultation on Cerro Blanco mine is valid and legitimate: (Cerro Blanco); ... outside the provisions or legal requirements which would imply invalidating the results of the votes and the will of the 7,481 participants who voted against the metallic mining projects. We denounce ...; Created on 21 September 2022
9. Public statement of the Local Governments of Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador, members of the Lempa River Trinational Border Association, regarding the “Cerro Blanco” mining project, developed by the ...: (Cerro Blanco); ... Border Association is a Legal entity, located in the Trifinio (Tri-national) Region that is comprised by 26 municipalities from countries of El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras and it is committed to ...; Created on 12 June 2022
10. PRESS RELESE: Environmental Organizations Dennounce Privatization of Water in El Salvador: (Media Releases); THE GENERAL LAW ON WATER RESOURCES APPROVED BY THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY LEGALIZES WATER INJUSTICE, PROMOTES THE THEFT AND DISPOSSESSION OF WATER IN THE TERRITORIES San Salvador, December 22, 2021. ...; Created on 23 December 2021
11. Communique: Community organizations fear the return of metal mining in El Salvador: (Media Releases); ... economic, legal and environmental aspects" According to MARN, “El Salvador recently joined this Forum, which includes 78 countries around the world and which provides a series of services to its members, ...; Created on 16 December 2021
12. Anglo American files lawsuit against Colombia: (ISDS); ... November 2017. Colombia's constitutional court suspended operations due to concerns about the impact of diverting a river on the local water supply. Anglo American's latest legal challenge was filed ...; Created on 08 June 2021
13. In Guatemala, Harris Should Address U.S. Policies That Put Corporations Over People: (Mining and Human Rights); ... KCA’s assets. May 21, 2021 police action. Credit: Peaceful Resistance La Puya. The company’s assets were frozen in mid-2016 for illegal mineral extraction after it defied a court decision in late ...; Created on 07 June 2021
14. Mining is not ‘recovery’: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... lawyer, and environmental advocate with the Legal Rights and Natural Resources Center. Gideon Lasco is a physician and anthropologist who has conducted research on forest conservation efforts in Luzon ...; Created on 02 June 2021
15. Scientists, fishers say new mining deals to cause more damage than good: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... threats and intimidation, illegal arrests, harassment lawsuits, and forced displacement. For instance, in April last year, the Philippine police nabbed Roland Pulido, chairman of Didipio Earth Saver’s ...; Created on 24 May 2021
16. 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
17. PBI-Guatemala accompanies the Peaceful Resistance of La Puya as court ruling gives mining company access to the site: (La Puya International Support Letter); ... explains: “[On May 21] the immobilization, which had been legally imposed [by the Supreme Court] in 2016, [was] officially lifted. Although, this does not mean that the miner can restart operating activities.” ...; Created on 22 May 2021
18. Why Canada is at the centre of global mining atrocities: (Mining and Human Rights); ... The Canadian government’s response to global mining injustice Asuncion said that the Canadian government has used CSR to shift focus away from calls for legal reform. “Instead, Canadian mining policies ...; Created on 12 May 2021
19. Pan American Silver Pressured to Shut Down Community Interference in Guatemala: (Mining and Human Rights); ... four years. The consultation process failed to budge from 2018 to 2020 due to illegalities and discrimination against the Xinka until October 2020, when the government finally agreed to accept the Xinka’s ...; Created on 12 May 2021
20. Honduras: Supreme Court must correct distorted ruling & free arbitrarily detained Guapinol defenders: (Mining and Human Rights); ... objectivity and independence, and under all the criteria studied, it found that the detention of the eight environmental defenders is arbitrary for three reasons: 1. First, because there is no legal ...; Created on 11 May 2021

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