... the Philippine government for protesting them. A VICE World News investigation. It was 6:45 a.m. on a Monday in July 2006: Chandu Claver, his wife, and 10-year-old daughter were in their car at a busy ...
ON WORLD INDIGENOUS PEOPLE’S DAY, THE GLOBAL NETWORK YES TO LIFE NO TO MINING JOINS THE GLOBAL PROTEST AGAINST OCEANA GOLD WITH ITS MEMBER ORGANISATION KALIKASAN FROM THE PHILIPPINES
Indigenous peoples ...
Stella Dawson, Reuters
WASHINGTON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Protesters rallied on Monday to demand that a World Bank tribunal reject an international mining company’s claim for $300 million from ...
Pamela Constable
Calling gold mining a scourge on the environment of El Salvador, a group of protesters rallied Monday outside the World Bank in the District, where a tribunal is discussing the case ...
... legal action against the El Salvador government.
The nation is being sued in a World Bank tribunal after it failed to grant a mining permit to OceanaGold subsidiary Pacific Rim.
Protesters usually ...
Join Institute for Policy Studies’ Global Economy Project and other allies on El Salvador's Independence Day for a demonstration to "yes" to life, "no" to mining by protesting the free trade agreements like ...
Protesters Demand that Pac Rim Case be Dismissed
December, 2011
On Thursday December 15, 2011 over one hundred people gathered in solidarity with the Salvadoran people in front of the World Bank headquarters ...
... were killed protesting the Pacific Rim project — including Dora Alicia Recinos Sorto, who was eight months pregnant.
Ultimately, the company was denied the license on the grounds that it had failed to ...
... Initiative, an international investment program to develop infrastructure, energy and mining projects. El Salvador joined in 2019.
Anti-mining protesters in El Salvador. (Photo courtesy of Institute ...
... (ADES) called on citizens to protest in San Salvador City to reject the political persecution of social leaders carried out by the administration of President Nayib Bukele.
On Jan. 11, the Attorney General' ...
... Honduras, who have been in jail since August 2019, after they were arrested in a protest against mining activities of a Honduran company). It is not possible that people who defend water have been deprived ...
... Church, Protestant churches, the Office of the Attorney for the Defense of Human Rights, affected communities, environmental organizations, academic institutions, organizations of indigenous peoples and ...
... part that the government failed to adequately protect its mine from local communities that set up a peaceful protest camp out of fear that gold mining would contaminate scarce water supplies.
This accusation ...
... our history… Reaching this moment was a very difficult task… [spanning] four government administrations. Since 2009, we have been protesting and demanding the right to consultation, but unfortunately previous ...
... of killings of land and environmental defenders in the world in 2018. The same report found mining to be the deadliest sector globally for protesting land defenders.
And Canadian mining companies are ...
...
At the beginning of March, protesters pelted Argentinian president Alberto Fernández’s bus over his support for mining in Patagonia. Local and indigenous communities in the southernmost part of the hemisphere ...
... access to the mine.
View of the Camp in Defense of Water and Life View of the Camp in Defence of Water and Life. (ACAFREMIN: Central American Alliance Against Mining) The government response to the protesters ...
... the authors write, Canadian gold-mining company Pacific Rim and its allies deployed sleazy tactics to overwhelm opposition and win a license to mine. Astroturf protesters were paid to pose as members of ...
... also revealed how many governments were taking extraordinary steps to suppress protests in mining contexts, as well as how companies and governments were taking advantage of the crisis to establish new ...