April 24, 2019 Today, a letter signed by 227 Guatemalan and international networks and organizations was delivered to Guatemalan authorities and the U.S. Embassy in Guatemala. The letter denounces ...
... peoples' rights… it affects not only Walter Aduviri but all indigenous peoples, because it represents jurisprudence for other court rulings".
For Lauracio, the case would undoubtedly have to be brought ...
... with the president of PROESA, the Exports and Investment Promotion Agency of El Salvador, who told them that mining will soon be brought back.
Finally, there are rumors that mining is on the negotiating ...
... on whether a fair trial is even possible," Portillo said. "Since Attorney General Delgado was illegally appointed last May, virtually all cases he has brought have been sent to trial—whether there is evidence ...
... (for Berta's murder) have not yet been brought to trial.
Berta's murder did not stop women defenders in Honduras ...
Berta's legacy is great. Children from the fields, people from anywhere say: "Berta, ...
... than 1,000 known suits filed have been brought against governments in Latin America. Disputes with affected communities that are resisting mining operations or seeking remedy for harms are most often at ...
... brought before the House of Commons that, if passed, would have established binding corporate social responsibility guidelines on Canadian mining companies operating overseas. Claver emphasized how powerful ...
... 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 ...
... mining projects.
Canadian firms dominate mining in Guatemala as well. Last month, a Canadian legal academic brought a case before Canada’s Federal Court, alleging that the minister of foreign affairs ...
... Pacific Rim filed suit against El Salvador, was created over the unanimous opposition of 19 Latin American nations, and its docket was almost exclusively composed of cases brought by companies against ...
... level, to force companies like Glencore to be effectively responsible. One such is the Responsible Business Initiative, brought to a referendum in November 2020 in Switzerland. In an interview with TerraJusta, ...
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A new book describes how environmental activists in El Salvador brought conservatives and progressives together to institute a nationwide ban on metal mining in 2017.
The World’s ...
... operated by Bear Creek Mining, a Canadian company. The Peruvian government eventually cancelled the mining concession, but Aduviri was hounded for years by court cases brought against him by public prosecutors ...
... in 2021 was brought by a Netherlands-based company against Peru over a failed telecommunications investment. With this latest case, there are a total of 13 treaty-based arbitrations currently active against ...
... new in the mining sector. Since the late 1990s, nearly 50 cases concerning mining concessions have been brought before the International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), one of ...
... The money that was going to be earned (…) through the employment of the locals, would be nothing compared to the illnesses that the extractive projects would have brought”.
Interview with Carmelo Torres, ...
... Rights Day, the painful state of Indigenous Peoples brought about by imperialist powers with tyrants and militarized governments benefitting from plunder, need to be challenged.
Let us build our movement ...
... the frog, but “amphibians are very sensitive to even a very slight change in their environmental factors, so that was thankfully declined,” Macassey-Pickard said.
Adams said applications brought forward ...
... Vizcaya, especially in light of the floods and landslides brought by the recent typhoons. This illegal entry of fuel to the mines add insult to injury, as OGPI prevented the provincial government from ...
... FTAA of Oceanagold.” said Fr. Vic Tiam, ANVIK chairperson.
On April 6, amid the ongoing lockdown brought by the COVID-19 pandemic, Didipio residents’ barricade was dispersed violently by Philippine National ...