... Before these violations happened, and up to this date, we were not in possession of a judicial instrument that can help communities to access justice and have companies respect and not prey on our rights ...
... defenders who were instrumental in achieving a 2017 legislative ban on metal mining in El Salvador.
Global alarm has been building since Miguel Ángel Gámez, Alejandro Laínez García, Pedro Antonio Rivas ...
... been used as a neocolonial instrument to discipline and punish governments and peoples in the Global South in order to protect transnational companies over everything else.
Nearly a third of the more ...
Terra Justa
The mining giant's activities in Latin America and how they demonstrate the need for a binding instrument on Business and Human Rights.
In June 2020, a statement signed by more than 200 ...
... its female leaders—proved instrumental. But notable heroes also emerged in the right-wing ARENA party. This is especially significant if you remember that from 1980 to 1992, roughly 75,000 people were ...
... debt instruments by Mexican courts, the alleged taking of certain tourism facilities in Tulum and a dispute relating to the treatment of a satellite services provider Additionally, Mexico risks facing ...
... the local governments from the barangay to the province, put barricades up in July 2019 to prevent the company from operating after its FTAA expired. The action was instrumental in forcing the company ...
... that the extraction of minerals is necessary to manufacture respirators and medical instruments. However, there are raw materials available, without the need for continued exploitation. “Some 500 communities ...
... the International Labor Organization on the Rights of Indigenous and Tribal Peoples is an instrument of human rights protection signed and ratified by the State of Guatemala in the 1990s. Among other provisions, ...
... in 1994. Ecuador’s 2008 Constitution in Article 422 declares that treaties or international instruments that permit international arbitration are unconstitutional for undermining the nation´s sovereignty. ...
... Human Rights and all major Human Rights instruments that it is a party and signatory.
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... Yet, the technical and legal instruments for its thorough implementation are still lacking, Calles explained.
“We regret that proper mine closures are not being carried out. We as ACAFREMIN have contributed ...
... His talk focused on the advances of corporate rights, which through legal instruments such as free trade and investments agreements are strengthening the power of multinational corporations – TNCs, and ...
... Pérez-Rocha, “we were able to weave together the strands of this narrative, connecting water, health and the local defence of resources and territory to the imposition of corporate power by means of instruments ...
... that prohibit extractive activity, but that may have little effect in practice since these legal instruments are not above national laws or the constitution.
The Mining and Hydrocarbons Law, in force ...
... action is required for its approval. Both the Executive Decree and the Prohibition Law are instruments to prevent the looting of El Salvador's natural assets and guarantee respect for the human rights of ...
... session of the Inter-governmental Group on the elaboration of this instrument have shown there is a long term alternative. Similarly this case is interesting because the third pillar of the UN Guiding ...
... Salvador, that would also avoid similar arbitrations.
Now we are in front of a new setting, in which the Government and the Legislative Assembly have no longer excuses for not passing the legal instruments ...
... of the "Open-ended intergovernmental working group on an international legally binding instrument on transnational corporations and other business enterprises with respect to human rights”, which is to ...
... would have been in discussion for 9 years at the Legislature. And through all this time, we have stressed the need for this country to have this important instrument of public policy.
For the FMLN the ...