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1. Human Rights Advocates and Legal Experts Deliver Blueprint for New International Corporate Accountability Law in Canada: (Mining and Human Rights); ... Similar laws are in place or being developed in several countries. Canada, however, is falling behind. Instead of legally requiring companies to respect human rights and the environment, Canada encourages ...; Created on 21 May 2021
2. ATM Statement on illegal entry of fuel trucks in Nueva Vizcaya: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); PRESS RELEASE Nov. 26. 2020 Quezon City - Alyansa Tigil Mina strongly condemns the illegal forceful entry today of five fuel trucks by Oceana Gold Philippines, Inc. (OGPI) in Brgy. Didipio, Kasibu, ...; Created on 28 November 2020
3. Legal Defense: Honduran Courts Rule to Sustain Political Persecution in Guapinol Case: (Regional News); ConexiHon Legal Defense: Honduran Courts Rule to Sustain Political Persecution in Guapinol Case, August 17, 2020 Late last week, defense lawyers for the more than 20 environmental defenders from Tocoa, ...; Created on 18 August 2020
4. The obscure legal system that lets corporations sue countries: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); Claire Provost and Matt Kennard - The Guardian Fifty years ago, an international legal system was created to protect the rights of foreign investors. Today, as companies win billions in damages, insiders ...; Created on 11 July 2015
5. Facing Goliath: CIEL lends David a (legal) hand: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... the brief counters Pac Rim’s argument that legal requirements and procedures established under Salvadoran law are only formalities, on the basis that human rights law requires the State to set up a robust ...; Created on 06 August 2014
6. Anglo American files lawsuit against Colombia: (ISDS); ... November 2017. Colombia's constitutional court suspended operations due to concerns about the impact of diverting a river on the local water supply. Anglo American's latest legal challenge was filed ...; Created on 08 June 2021
7. In Guatemala, Harris Should Address U.S. Policies That Put Corporations Over People: (Mining and Human Rights); ... KCA’s assets. May 21, 2021 police action. Credit: Peaceful Resistance La Puya. The company’s assets were frozen in mid-2016 for illegal mineral extraction after it defied a court decision in late ...; Created on 07 June 2021
8. Mining is not ‘recovery’: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... lawyer, and environmental advocate with the Legal Rights and Natural Resources Center. Gideon Lasco is a physician and anthropologist who has conducted research on forest conservation efforts in Luzon ...; Created on 02 June 2021
9. Scientists, fishers say new mining deals to cause more damage than good: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... threats and intimidation, illegal arrests, harassment lawsuits, and forced displacement. For instance, in April last year, the Philippine police nabbed Roland Pulido, chairman of Didipio Earth Saver’s ...; Created on 24 May 2021
10. To the General Public, The Peaceful Resistance of La Puya states: (La Puya International Support Letter); ... a provisional writ awarded by the Supreme Court of Justice in 2015. 2. In 2016, the Public Prosecutor’s Office carried out proceedings as a result of an investigation into the mining company for illegal ...; Created on 23 May 2021
11. PBI-Guatemala accompanies the Peaceful Resistance of La Puya as court ruling gives mining company access to the site: (La Puya International Support Letter); ... explains: “[On May 21] the immobilization, which had been legally imposed [by the Supreme Court] in 2016, [was] officially lifted. Although, this does not mean that the miner can restart operating activities.” ...; Created on 22 May 2021
12. Why Canada is at the centre of global mining atrocities: (Mining and Human Rights); ... The Canadian government’s response to global mining injustice Asuncion said that the Canadian government has used CSR to shift focus away from calls for legal reform. “Instead, Canadian mining policies ...; Created on 12 May 2021
13. Pan American Silver Pressured to Shut Down Community Interference in Guatemala: (Mining and Human Rights); ... four years. The consultation process failed to budge from 2018 to 2020 due to illegalities and discrimination against the Xinka until October 2020, when the government finally agreed to accept the Xinka’s ...; Created on 12 May 2021
14. Honduras: Supreme Court must correct distorted ruling & free arbitrarily detained Guapinol defenders: (Mining and Human Rights); ... objectivity and independence, and under all the criteria studied, it found that the detention of the eight environmental defenders is arbitrary for three reasons: 1. First, because there is no legal ...; Created on 11 May 2021
15. Canada’s Mining Industry Is Spreading Havoc Around the World — With Justin Trudeau’s Support: (Mining and Human Rights); ... 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 ...; Created on 07 May 2021
16. Environmental activists are being killed in Honduras over their opposition to mining: (Regional News); ... A UN working group recently ruled that the the detention of the eight defenders is arbitrary. The defenders have since launched legal action, and Blanca Izaguirre, the country’s human rights ombudsperson ...; Created on 06 May 2021
17. Swiss mining transnational Glencore in the Andes: (General mining reports ); ... societies with legal permission to exploit mining resources, often with little oversight by the State. The point being that Glencore is legally allowed to sign contracts with mining cooperatives to work ...; Created on 22 April 2021
18. Australian-Canadian mining company OceanaGold misleads public on Filipino mine: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... the land,” Morrison said. “When OceanaGold’s FTAA expired in June 2019, community groups and local and provincial governments took action, including a legally sanctioned barricade, forcing OceanaGold ...; Created on 22 April 2021
19. ‘Complete turnaround’: Philippines’ Duterte lifts ban on new mining permits: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... Manobo leader on the southern island of Mindanao, who was murdered after opposing illegal mining in his community in the Pantaron mountain range. The Carmen Pit, an open-pit copper mine site in Toledo, ...; Created on 15 April 2021
20. El Salvador’s Water Defenders and the Fight Against Toxic Mining: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); SIERRA CLUB John Gibler In 2017, El Salvador became the first country in the world to ban metal mining. Robin Broad and John Cavanagh present the story of the social struggles and legal battles behind ...; Created on 11 April 2021

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