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1. 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
2. The Cerro Blanco mine and the right to consultation: (Cerro Blanco); ... waste systems, recently published by the Heinrich Boll Foundation confirms the concerns expressed by environmental organizations. Dr. Dina Lopez, a retired vulcanologist from the University of Ohio, has ...; Created on 22 September 2022
3. Public statement of the Local Governments of Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador, members of the Lempa River Trinational Border Association, regarding the “Cerro Blanco” mining project, developed by the ...: (Cerro Blanco); ... damages to the environment, water and ecosystems. 9. That the company BLUESTONE RESOURCES still does not have the approval of the environmental license for open pit mining as its Environmental Impact ...; Created on 12 June 2022
4. MIRIAN MIRANDA: There is a genocidal plan against the Garífuna people: (Regional News); ... (Charter Cities as the ZEDE have also been called) have become the death blow to make us disappear as a people. As such, we promoted several cases before the Inter-American Human Rights System. We have ...; Created on 25 December 2021
5. PRESS RELESE: Environmental Organizations Dennounce Privatization of Water in El Salvador: (Media Releases); ... Water Systems. It maintains the privatizing spirit in which it was presented last June by the President of the Republic. It is a Law that deepens water injustice as it includes mechanisms that will generate ...; Created on 23 December 2021
6. La Mesa releases a memoir of their collective struggle to ban mining in El Salvador: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... turn, it was international organizations who helped members of la mesa navigate the international human rights system and helped to echo the calls for justice to the international public opinion. ...; Created on 29 June 2021
7. Mining is not ‘recovery’: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... awaits the peoples of Southern Mindanao. The project will potentially impact five major river systems: Buayan, Taplan, Padada, Alip, and Manteo, and as the rivers flow, the impacts will be felt in Ligawasan ...; Created on 02 June 2021
8. Why Canada is at the centre of global mining atrocities: (Mining and Human Rights); ... more accurately describes Canada – specifically Toronto – as “the belly of the beast.” It is the epicentre of the global mining industry, precisely because the systemic violence that plagues the industry ...; Created on 12 May 2021
9. A New Environmentalist Playbook An improbable victory in El Salvador offers lessons for grassroots activists worldwide: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... take on a more global significance. The climate crisis adds a dose of dread to a question long pondered by environmentalists: How can poor countries and communities protect the environment when the system ...; Created on 23 April 2021
10. Swiss mining transnational Glencore in the Andes: (General mining reports ); ... territories, even disturbing the dreams of spiritual physicians who can no longer guide their communities as a result. In addition to the systematic violation of the rights of communities and environmental ...; Created on 22 April 2021
11. ‘Complete turnaround’: Philippines’ Duterte lifts ban on new mining permits: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... to Mongabay. “Lifting the moratorium exposes this administration’s support for mining projects that will impact our water, food supply, forest, biodiversity, Indigenous communities and fragile island ecosystems.” ...; Created on 15 April 2021
12. Gold mine expansion could produce $2.5 billion. But environmental problems linger: (OceanaGold); ... he said. That the company identified the wastewater problems itself “is a demonstration of the environmental monitoring system .... working the way it should,’’ his statement said. “It exists to help ...; Created on 30 March 2021
13. WATER IS LIFE. CAN WE PROTECT IT?: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... river system that provides water for over half the country’s population. Over the past two decades, this river system was threatened by a giant mining company that wanted to mine gold near the rivers. ...; Created on 28 March 2021
14. Urgent Action: Immediately release Guapinol defenders in high risk: (Mining and Human Rights); ... - Danilo Morale, sGeneral Director of the System for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, Journalists, Social Communicators and Justice Operators. E-mail: proteccion.ddhh.hn@gmail.com, analsisderiesgodgsp@gmail.com ...; Created on 14 March 2021
15. A Private Government in Honduras Moves Forward: (Mining and Human Rights); ... has allowed a group of investors from the Washington DC-based firm NeWay Capital to establish an independent governance system as an experiment with privatized jurisdictions. Hondurans are facing a ...; Created on 15 February 2021
16. Gold mine fined $100,000. Toxic air pollution found at big mine near tiny town: (OceanaGold); ... per ton of concentrate, the minerals company said. Haile says it has installed a $1 million mercury pollution control system. DHEC’s Renwick also said the agency does not believe the mercury pollution ...; Created on 12 February 2021
17. Canadian Mining Companies Are Devastating The Global South: (Mining and Human Rights); ... resource extraction system that devastates environments and communities in the Global South and suppresses popular resistance through violence and coercion. Canadian Mining Operations In Peru Canadian ...; Created on 21 January 2021
18. Vizcaya governor asks Rody to end 2 mine operations: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... Nueva Vizcaya is a “watershed haven and agroforestry hub,” which makes the province the “life support system” of Region 2 (Cagayan Valley) and neighboring areas. “Our watersheds supply water both for ...; Created on 21 January 2021
19. Disputes against governments under investment treaties: a growing trend in the mining industry in 2020: (ISDS); ... domestic legal system may not provide an adequate remedy. For example, an investor may not wish to settle disputes before a host state's domestic courts for reasons of (i) fear of bias; or (ii) unfamiliarity ...; Created on 06 January 2021
20. From dreams of gold to organic agriculture: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... the World Food Program (WFP). “I had never grown cabbage; nor lettuce, tomato, güisquil (chayote) plants, and even some mango trees (…). The WFP also gave us a Tambo (water tank) to build irrigation systems." ...; Created on 05 January 2021

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