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1. Disputes against governments under investment treaties: a growing trend in the mining industry in 2020: (ISDS); ... We will also explore the growing role played by third-party funders in international disputes. Third-party funding allows an investor to bring a claim without the fees and costs associated with that claim ...; Created on 06 January 2021
2. Scientists, fishers say new mining deals to cause more damage than good: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... 1.02% in the past 20 years, despite growing its gross value added from P54.5 billion ($1.14 billion) to P136.9 billion ($2.9 billion). Environmental disasters, rights violations Leon Dulce, national ...; Created on 24 May 2021
3. Philippines' Duterte lifts ban on new mining deals: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... disasters. Duterte -- who had previously threatened to shut down the mining sector completely -- is facing growing criticism over his handling of the pandemic that has crippled the economy and thrown ...; Created on 05 May 2021
4. Swiss mining transnational Glencore in the Andes: (General mining reports ); ... growing international pressure over the climate crisis. The company is looking to get on the energy transition bandwagon. In February 2021, its outgoing CEO, Ivan Glasenberg, said that copper demand will ...; Created on 22 April 2021
5. From dreams of gold to organic agriculture: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... on giant screens where they explained how they were going to work," he says with a smiling look. Since his childhood Carmen or "Carmelo", as his neighbors call him, has been growing beans, rice, and sorghum ...; Created on 05 January 2021
6. The Duterte era: A state of nature under attack: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... has only spent P5,617.00 per family—or just P 77.00 per day—for COVID-19 social amelioration. The Duterte regime has also stepped up its authoritarian rule to suppress the growing criticism and dissent ...; Created on 25 July 2020
7. National Alliance Against the Privatization of Water “Water is not for sale, we care for it and defend it: (Water Crisis El Salvador); ... lost to growing urbanization and an agribusiness that is out of control. In addition to this, a weakened state that has been incapable of creating public policies and laws to address these issues, nor ...; Created on 26 September 2019
8. Canadian mining companies are behaving badly in the Global South—and Wall Street is profiting from it: (FTAs & ISDS); ... growing concerns over the ability of governments in the Global South to act decisively on serious environmental issues such as climate change. In other words, in order to take meaningful environmental ...; Created on 05 May 2019
9. New Report Exposes Mining Companies Suing Latin American Countries Where Communities Defend Land and Environment: (FTAs & ISDS); ... highlights that for the Canadian companies who pursue ISDS across all economic sectors, environmental policy is the fastest growing trigger for such cases. The report further finds that financial speculators ...; Created on 03 May 2019
10. Letter of support for defenders of "La Puya" ...: (La Puya International Support Letter); ... Tribunals like ICSID are not courts of law, but rather secretive panels of highly-paid corporate lawyers who have no obligation to respect precedent of any sort in their decisions. KCA is one of a growing ...; Created on 26 February 2019
11. More than one hundred organizations reject the unjust payment of USD $31 million to Canadian mining company Bear Creek: (Regional News); ... Letter, if the Supreme Court does not annul the sentence, they will be setting harsh precedents for the defense of territory and human rights in Peru. It goes on: “We are disturbed to note a growing tendency ...; Created on 16 September 2018
12. THE STRUGGLE FOR GOOD WATER GOVERNANCE CONTINUES IN EL SALVADOR: (Water Crisis El Salvador); ... water management dominated by the private sector. In fact, no country in the world has the rectory of water in private hands. Citizen participation: The growing water crisis in El Salvador is complex ...; Created on 27 August 2018
13. From Mining to Water: 25 years of Community Solidarity and Organizing: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... privatization, a growing portion of Salvadoran civil society is concerned that putting water regulation under the decision-making power of private interests would be a de facto privatization. In contrast, ...; Created on 24 August 2018
14. The dilemma of artisanal miners after the mining prohibition in El Salvador: (Commerce Group); ... growing frustrated and have begun to organize to take matters in their own hands. “If we don’t find a viable solution with the government, we will present a constitutional challenge against the prohibition ...; Created on 07 May 2018
15. How Local, Grassroots Organizing Drove El Salvador’s Mining Ban: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... environmentally unfriendly methods of resource extraction. As in El Salvador, this movement too has all the potential to keep growing — and to cross political lines within communities that want to protect ...; Created on 26 June 2017
16. In El Salvador, OceanaGold Must ‘Pay Up and Pack Up’: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... Rim’s PR and Lobby Strategy Faced with strong and growing opposition to its project, Pacific Rim could not meet regulatory requirements to obtain the permits it needed to put its proposed El Dorado project ...; Created on 03 March 2017
17. Pressure Mounts on El Salvadoran Legislature to Ban Metal Mining: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... mining in the country. Their trip to Assembly reflects the growing grassroots support for a national law banning metal mining in El Salvador. Bernardo Belloso, the president of CRIPDES (a Salvadoran NGO ...; Created on 13 February 2017
18. ICSID decision buoys El Salvador in mining dispute: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... to acquire land rights for most of the concession. Metal mining drew growing opposition nationwide. The Roman Catholic Church weighed in against it, and several academic studies confirmed the tiny country’s ...; Created on 10 November 2016
19. Across the Pacific: building a global struggle against the free-trade agenda of OceanaGold: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... the lowest regulatory standards, and investor-state dispute systems undermining the sovereignty of nations are just among its alarming features. The growing international people’s struggle against the ...; Created on 26 September 2016
20. NEW BOOK: Rethinking Bilateral Trade Agreements: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... of doing so. And in Europe opposition against the ISDS-system is growing fast amongst citizens as well as politicians", says Burghard Ilge from Both ENDS Unique book The free-to-download book contains ...; Created on 11 May 2016

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