... incorporated into possible new trade agreements such as the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP).
Sharan Burrow, ITUC General Secretary, said, “Here again is a case of a multinational ...
By: Patrick Weiniger
Patrick Weiniger
First published in: http://redflag.org.au/article/mining-multinationals-exploit-central-america
El Salvadoran anti-mining campaigner Vidalina Morales recently ...
... the global North are party. The OECD has Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises, which are voluntary recommendations to multinational companies to adopt responsible business conduct at the international ...
... multinational miner” and that it had the strong endorsement of residents in local communities in and around the mine, including Indigenous people.
In fact, the mine is strongly opposed by local communities ...
... to defeat a lawsuit by OceanaGold, a multinational firm that argued the Salvadoran government did not have the right to prohibit mining.
How Salvadorans achieved such major wins against enormous odds ...
... responsible multinational miner, the company is ready and waiting to restart the Didipio operations and to continue contributing to the Philippines’ post-Covid-19 recovery.” Due to the June 10, 2019 expiration ...
... from multinational mining company Pac Rim appeared in their home province of Cabañas. This ignited a people’s fight against corporate power that would last for over a decade. In The Water Defenders: How ...
... the persecution of water and land defenders around the world.
This is the new normal for our region, a normality where the neoliberal economic model is consolidated with the predominance of multinational ...
By John Aaron Mark Macaraeg - BULALAT
KASIBU, Nueva Vizcaya — Ronald Pumihic sat on a tent with his daughter on his lap as he watched the barangay police inspect a van entering their community. In some ...
... concluded that allocations regimes for extractive projects operating in the Central American region are ridden with corrupt administrative proceedings that benefit of local subsidiaries of foreign multinationals ...
... sustaining and bolstering investment disputes, which is tipping the scales of ISDS even further in favour of multinational corporations.
In practice, TPF is a fairly straightforward process. Investors ...
... communities of their resources and their territory in favor of the interests of multinational companies. The criminal proceedings, the stigmatization and de-legitimization of the struggles of the communities ...
... of natural resources - mostly by multinational corporations - by limiting and violating the rights of the population.
The Aymarazo
The conflict known as "El Aymarazo" was a mobilization in the ...
... of multinational corporations over the health, safety, and welfare of local populations,” wrote Zaunbreche.
Furthermore, Alexandra Pedersen argued in her August 2015 article for Telesur that mining that ...
P. Cabezas
Local companies tied to foreign capital drive the push to privatize water magament and services in El Salvador.
The fight for the defence of water in El Salvador and the recent conflicts ...
... weeks after elections and month before the new legislature took over, the American Chamber of Commerce flanked by large multinational corporations called a press conference to announce private initiatives ...
... His talk focused on the advances of corporate rights, which through legal instruments such as free trade and investments agreements are strengthening the power of multinational corporations – TNCs, and ...
... all party support in March 2018, was celebrated around the world as a victory of small country that chose to protect the health of its people over the interest of large multinational corporations. But ...
... by the archbishop. The ban passed unanimously on March 29, 2017. “Many of us still don’t believe it happened,” Cabezas says. “We were ready for a long battle and a lot of pressure from multinational corporations ...
... “to repeal the mining prohibition and to give multinational corporations control over natural resources would be considered an act of treason by the Salvadoran population.”
The ban’s approval was hailed ...