Alfredo Carias : Contrapunto
Arcatao, San José las Flores, San Isidro Labrador and Nueva Trinidad in Chalatenango have already carried out referenda on mining.
Citizens of the municipality of Cinquera ...
... comprehensive strategy to destroy the institutionality.
It is a country where, even today, this Machiavellian project called Special Economic Development Zones (ZEDE) can be installed, small states within ...
... of over 50 countries promoting mining called the Intergovernmental Forum on Mining, Metals and Sustainable Development and based in Ottawa, Canada. Two participants in the Forum, and members of the board ...
... a country rich in precious minerals.
In a position paper read at a hearing of a panel of the House of Representatives Wednesday, Kalikasan People’s Network for the Environment called for the urgent passage ...
... violations and ecological disasters, which shall never be a good offset to the so-called revenue that these mines will bring,” Dulce claimed.
False stance, public betrayal
Pamalakaya also counted EO ...
... which was forcibly displaced to make way for mine expansion in 2017. During the AGM, Beaty called the La Colorada mine a “massive win for our shareholders” and failed to acknowledge the human suffering ...
... this promise never materialized.
The office created, called the Canadian Ombudsperson for Responsible Enterprise (CORE), was not independent. It was instead housed under Global Affairs Canada. And it ...
... of American States’ human rights commission called for a suspension of operations at the company’s Marlin mine in 2010. The Guatemalan government ultimately denied the commission’s request, which was meant ...
... of Honduras to "release the eight defenders immediately" and to grant them the effective right to compensation and reparation. The Group further called on the government to "conduct a thorough and independent ...
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The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights has called for the closure of Goldcorp’s Guatemalan Marlin Mine due to the company’s failure to consult with indigenous communities. The Canadian government ...
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The latest conflicts in Espinar occurred between July and August 2020. The population called attention to their demands over health and the environment, but also regarding a one-time payment of 1000 ...
... in the town of San Isidro, in Cabañas, by going door-to-door to collect donated books. They built a few shelves in their family’s living room and called it the San Isidro Foundation for Culture and the ...
... came together in a coalition called La Mesa, the Round Table Against Metallic Mining. These were ordinary people, but they were ordinary people who did extraordinary things. They proved to be amazing researchers. ...
... called for Goldcorp’s Marlin mine to be shut down in 2010. The commission made the unprecedented request in response to evidence that Indigenous communities had not been consulted about the mine and concerns ...
... oxide mine.
By 2017 the Municipal Committee for the Defence of Public and Common Goods had been created and called for public consultations so that community members could decide whether they wanted ...
... (TS), governs the ZEDE alongside other key bodies, including the “Promoter and Organizer,” a private company registered in Delaware called Honduras Próspera LLC, and the Council of Trustees, referred to ...
... Toronto Stock Exchange. In short, mining is a huge business for Canada, and it’s driven by exploitation and abuse.
The Santa Ana project, as Bear Creek’s operation was called, was intended to be an 11-year-long ...
... to accept the invitation to participate in the training. As she retells, “when I started learning, we prepared a fertilizer for the plants called Bokashi. We later, began to work use to fertilize the plants. ...
... by what it called a “particular importance” given to the term “invested by investors,” the Swiss Federal Tribunal held that Article 1(2) is an ordinary asset-based definition of investment – known for ...
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Another species, the red, green, and brown-mottled Archey’s frog, is roughly the size of an adult fingernail and has been called a “modern-day dinosaur” because it remains almost identical to its fossilized, ...