By Tanya Sahni & Erica Wallis
On February 28th, Amanda Grzyb, associate professor of Information and Media Studies at Canada’s Western University gave a talk as part of an ongoing public interest lecture ...
... valued at around $25 billion, while its debt is around $20 billion. “But still,” said University of Georgia professor Julio Sevilla, “you cannot really afford to make bad investments when your finances ...
... mine in Guatemala. The suit was brought by York University law professor and co-founder of the Justice & Corporate Accountability Project (JCAP), Shin Imai, who first sought the information through access-to-information ...
... of human rights abuse at its mine in Guatemala.
The lawsuit, filed by Shin Imai, York University law professor and co-founder of the Justice & Corporate Accountability Project (JCAP), is supported by ...
... tactics—not only defeating them in court at the World Bank but producing a nationwide ban on all mining.”
—Dana Frank, research professor and professor of history emerita at the University of California, ...
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Robin Broad, a professor of development studies at American University in Washington DC, is writing a book about mining as a John Simon Guggenheim Fellow. John Cavanagh directs the Washington-based Institute ...
... of Investment Disputes, an international arbitration organization.
Al Gedicks, emeritus professor of environmental sociology at the University of Wisconsin–La Crosse and a founder of the Midwest Coalition ...
... two victories deserve a much larger audience.
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Robin Broad is Professor of International Development, School of International Service, American University (Washington, ...
... corporations or if he allows this lining of corporate pockets to continue.
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Broad is a professor at the School of International Service at American University and is on the board of Earthworks. Cavanagh ...
... planet first.
Robin Broad is a professor at American University and John Cavanagh is the director of the Institute for Policy Studies. They are the co-authors of Development Redefined: How the Market ...
... to human rights and the environment that occur when corporations bring a suit to tribunals like ICSID,” explained Robin Broad, professor at the American University.
"A mining company that calls itself ...
... a conflict that has already cost several people their lives,” remarks Professor Stuart Kirsch, one of the authors and an anthropologist at the University of Michigan with two decades of experience studying ...
... of mining”. At his desk, overflowing with books, the former honorary professor of Environmental Risk at the Universities of Barcelona and Girona explains his vision of a modern state, which follows a sustainable ...
... multinationals against local communities,” says Susan Spronk, associate professor in the School of International Development and Global Studies at the University of Ottawa. “If the environmental strategies ...
... Broad, a professor of International Development at American University who studies development and environmental concerns. “This is phenomenal, given the country’s relative economic poverty and the high ...
... These studies highlight the inconsistencies and technical gaps that indicate the unfeasibility of the mine. Dr. Dina Larios, professor of Hydrogeology and Geochemistry at the University of Ohio in the ...
Economic Growth, “Development,” and the Triple Crisis: Reflections on El Salvador and Gold Mining
Robin Broad
Let me introduce myself as does my business card: I am a professor of development. I am ...
Al Gedicks and Eric Hansen: Mine law needs public process, not ‘consensus’
AL GEDICKS AND ERIC HANSEN | UW-La Crosse professor (Midwest Coalition against Lethal Mining member) and outdoor writer, respectively ...
... to the mineral mining conflict was the disappearance and later murder of Professor Gustavo Marcelo Rivera in the municipality of San Isidro in June 2009. Rivera was a well known leader against mineral ...
... years before their permit was revoked
“It’s pretty outrageous that the government of El Salvador has been attacked for protecting the health and safety of its people,” said Al Gedicks, professor of sociology ...