Robin Broad and John Cavanagh : Ethics and International Affairs
Recently there have been two giant wins for democracy, human rights, and the environment in an unlikely spot: the small, embattled nation ...
Press Release:
Today, the General Attorney of the Republic of El Salvador offered a press conference in Washington D.C. to share the results of the arbitration, about which he had been notified by the ...
... trading.
"Regardless of who wins, there will be huge swings in Peruvian assets and investors don't want to get caught on the wrong side," said Brendan McKenna, currency strategist at Wells Fargo in New ...
... resources and leave others in the ground. Due to climate science if not solidarity, the prospects of local communities and activists for notching environmental wins against wealthy and well-connected companies ...
... 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 ...
... other big wins too. The water defenders of El Salvador and their international partners provide a powerful guidebook, poignantly retold by Broad and Cavanagh, of how the struggles for justice in the United ...
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New York Times (USA): El Salvador Wins Dispute Over Denying a Mining Permit, also in News New Zealand, Singapore News
New Zealand Herald: OceanaGold's Pac Rim subsidiary chided by ...
... be expensive.
And if the company wins, it would send a strong signal to the U.S. government not to mess with foreign oil companies’ plans — even within our own borders.
A Bigger Threat
Now an even bigger ...
... the biggest threat of destruction in El Salvador, and it must not settle in and grab what is ours. If El Salvador wins this battle, it will send a strong message of hope to the world: it will have won ...
In an obscure World Bank court, a multinational mining firm is suing El Salvador for attempting to protect its citizens from deadly mining pollution.
by Robin Broad and John Cavanah
Published in: http://fpif.org/meet-company-suing-el-salvador-right-poison-water/ ...
... leaving the international miners empty handed. This assumes the two sides do not settle before a ruling, as OceanaGold has said it would prefer.
Even if El Salvador wins the case, the country is still ...
... referred to statements made by the Republican former senator Jim DeMint , which warns that if the FMLN wins the presidential election on 9 March, the country will be "a paradise for gangs."
Sanchez ...
... that wins the upcoming elections, the next president of El Salvador would be wise to make substantive progress on the environmental agenda or face a population increasingly frustrated by the lack of action ...
... “abuse by transnational corporations” in the region.
Karunananthan believes that El Salvador would be wise to follow Ecuador’s lead. “Whether El Salvador wins or loses [the Pacific Rim case], it’s not ...