Democracy Now
At least 212 land and environmental defenders were murdered last year — the highest number since the group Global Witness began gathering data eight years ago. Some 40% of those killed ...
by Jen Moore - inequality.org
Global South Communities affected by mining face multiple pandemics - health, economic, violence, militarization and corporate capture
Over the years, the mining industry ...
... Other corporations settled for hundreds of millions more.
With countries scrambling to survive the global Covid-19 pandemic, many other countries could suffer Argentina’s fate. As economies falter, these ...
How the Global Mining Industry is Profiting from the COVID-19 Pandemic
This report provides in-depth cases to exemplify the four trends highlighted in the international open letter “Global Solidarity ...
... for Policy Studies, speaks about the inspiration of Marcelo Rivera in the global struggle against mining corporations and the formation of the International Allies against Mining in El Salvador.
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... toward the originally asymmetrical, post-colonial investor protection system, in which ISDS was established primarily to allow corporations based in high-income countries to sue governments in the Global ...
* Deutsche Welle
COVID-19 threatens the entire population globally, but puts the most vulnerable at greater risk, including prisoners in prisons, who, many times, cannot keep their distance due to the ...
... to connect disparate environmental justice groups doing similar work. To date, the global map includes more than 600 mining conflicts around the world. The new additions include mines in Argentina, Bolivia, ...
... According to reports from the Global Witness organization, these sectors remain the deadliest in the world for environmental defenders and Central America is one of the regions most affected by extractivism. ...