... addressed by the new government, the two-year transition period expired in April this year.
According to the members of the roundtable, the new government should assign a budget to reinforce the institutions ...
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Members of the National Roundtable against Metal Mining requested the President of the Republic, Nayib Bukele, to implement the Ban of Metal Mining, to address problems faced by mining affected ...
... of Walter Aduviri, Pablo Aduviri, with tears in his eyes, addressed the media demanding that the Supreme Court of Justice and the Government of Peru free his son from the unjust sentence. “My son cannot ...
... the mine are fully addressed and that a fair and transparent Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) is completed. Issues of past violence must be addressed and a full and impartial investigation into the ...
... expressed that the issue should be addressed regionally, since important rivers such as the Lempa, the main watershed in the national territory, are shared across the region and can be contaminated from ...
... the National roundtable against Metallic Mining in El Salvador states:
I. That the real environmental problems of El Salvador are not addressed as a priority in the electoral debate of the candidates ...
... MiningWatch held an international conference to find legal mechanisms to address human rights and environmental abuses by Canadian mining companies. MiningWatch also brought indigenous Subanon from Mindanao, ...
... make this instrument real and living in order to address the dishonest activities that some of these transnational companies engage in when they operate in our countries”.
Vidalina is a woman of faith, ...
... planning, Edgardo Sabado, addressed both general audiences and key policymakers. Padilla demonstrated with visual images and documented facts the environmental destruction and the violation of basic human ...
... El Salvador it tried to use investment protections in the Free Trade Agreement between the US and Central America and the Dominican Republic (DR-CAFTA). To do so it set up a post-box address in the US ...
... not address the reputational risk that the company continues to face.
In October 2016, a World Bank tribunal found against OceanaGold in a seven-year, multimillion-dollar suit against El Salvador. The ...
... By this time, local communities were already put off. Early impacts on local water supplies and the arrogance with which the company addressed local landowners led residents to ask more questions about ...
... community organized a meeting to address the current conditions in San Sebastian. Residents made it clear that no improvement had been made regarding access to water and river clean-up. Community members ...
... WSF through a discussion-workshop on building global strategies addressing Canadian mining impacts across the world, focusing on the case of OceanaGold.
Confronting the crises
A junior mining company ...
Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch
Investor-state dispute settlement system empowers foreign corporations to bypass domestic courts, challenge government’s public interest policies before extrajudicial ...
... Convention No. 169 was developed to protect self-identified indigenous people and attempts to address all key aspects of indigenous peoples’ rights. This is a guide to provide governments, indigenous and ...
World Economic Forum
This report highlights the most significant global risks, including economic, environmental, geopolitical, societal and technological risks. It identifies global risks and their ...
... and the lack of proper regulation on the part of the Salvadorean government. It provides an extensive diagnosis of the different issues that need to be addressed in order to bring remediation to the community ...
... an independent and internationally respected mechanism to address the issue (of compensation for damages, editor’s note)”.
In the capital San Salvador, this view is not shared. “The fact that a trade ...
... to address unsafe and illegal work conditions in the factory.
Whatever the motives, the Clinton-Slim-Giustra-Callejas alliance in El Salvador offers a sobering glimpse into the multi-million-dollar ties ...