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21. El Salvador’s Water Defenders and the Fight Against Toxic Mining: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... the almost-seven-year-long Pac Rim lawsuit against El Salvador at the ICSID. Pac Rim sued the Salvadoran government for not issuing them a mining permit. It took the ICSID six years and 10 months—and cost ...; Created on 11 April 2021
22. What Salvadoran Activists Can Teach Us About Building Coalitions: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... to defeat a lawsuit by OceanaGold, a multinational firm that argued the Salvadoran government did not have the right to prohibit mining. How Salvadorans achieved such major wins against enormous odds ...; Created on 05 April 2021
23. Families complain about big SC gold mine, citing danger and community disruption: (OceanaGold); ... leaks from the waste disposal pond could pollute well water, as well as a creek that runs by her family’s home, particularly since the mine has broken environmental laws multiple times. For now, she’s ...; Created on 02 April 2021
24. WATER IS LIFE. CAN WE PROTECT IT?: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... lobbyists. Beyond offering these few carrots, they also carried a large stick. When the Salvadoran government paused new mining licenses to study the issue, the mining companies filed lawsuits against ...; Created on 28 March 2021
25. An unlikely eco-alliance in postwar El Salvador: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... Marco Werman spoke with attorney Luis Parada, who led El Salvador’s defense team in a mining lawsuit at the World Bank, and Robin Broad, a co-author of the book, "The Water Defenders: How Ordinary People ...; Created on 22 March 2021
26. Ottawa must disclose how it aided Goldcorp in human rights dispute, Federal Court will hear: (Mining and Human Rights); ... of human rights abuse at its mine in Guatemala. The lawsuit, filed by Shin Imai, York University law professor and co-founder of the Justice & Corporate Accountability Project (JCAP), is supported by ...; Created on 02 March 2021
27. NEW BOOK: The water defenders - how ordinary people saved a country from corporate greed: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... with corporate greed; a transnational lawsuit at a secretive World Bank tribunal in Washington, DC; violent threats; murders; and, surprisingly, victory. The husband-and-wife duo immerses the reader in ...; Created on 14 January 2021
28. Disputes against governments under investment treaties: a growing trend in the mining industry in 2020: (ISDS); ... actions against investment such as (but not limited to) the revocation or cancellation of a mining licence; a change in local laws; or an export ban. Investor-state arbitration can be a powerful tool ...; Created on 06 January 2021
29. Reclaim Your Rights: Defend Indigenous People’s Lands: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... and terror has been the weapon of the State’s laws and armed forces to silence all resistance. Around 40% of land defenders killed around the world belong to indigenous communities even though they make ...; Created on 17 December 2020
30. Anti-mining community, Gina Lopez awarded as heroes for the environment: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... Lawyer Robert Chan for the defense of natural resources in Palawan. He leads a small team called “para-enforcers” Palawan NGO Network Inc. (PNNI) where they sharpen and strengthen conservation laws often ...; Created on 07 October 2020
31. How Honduras became one of the most dangerous countries to defend natural resources: (Mining and Human Rights); ... company that respects human and environmental rights, and complies with all laws, regulations and operating standards … we have generated development, economic impulse, help with social works for communities ...; Created on 07 October 2020
32. After trying to protect water sources, these Hondurans have been held without bail for more than a year.: (Mining and Human Rights); ... Jesuit-sponsored Radio Progreso. He is one of the men expected back in court this month. “But there’s injustice in this country. Laws are applied to [human rights] defenders, to the victims, to the people ...; Created on 25 September 2020
33. More ISDS cases launched against Latin American states amid the COVID-19 pandemic: (ISDS); ... lawsuits brought before international arbitration tribunals by private companies, claiming more than US$3 billion in compensation. Citing force majeure because of the COVID-19 health crisis , Bolivia ...; Created on 01 September 2020
34. New Report: Mining Injustice Through International Arbitration: Countering Kappes, Cassiday & Associates’ Claims over a Gold-mining Project in Guatemala: (Regional News); ... is scary to think what further harm might be brought to communities from more protection of this sort,” Ellen Moore, International Mining Campaign Manager, Earthworks. KCA’s lawsuit is emblematic of ...; Created on 24 August 2020
35. Environmentalists commemorate the 11th anniversary of the murder of Marcelo Rivera: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... a lawsuit brought forwards by Pacific Rim, and have El Salvador set up an example around the work as the first country to completely ban metal mining activities in its territory. After a 12 twelve ...; Created on 15 July 2020
36. In El Estor: a chain of breaches and contempt by CGN-PRONICO puts the lives of human rights defenders at risk: (Regional News); ... to the Guatemalan Constitution, the Convention has primacy over ordinary laws such as the Mining Law, since it is part of the constitutional block that governs Guatemala's internal law. Translation from: https://www.prensacomunitaria.org/en-el-estor-una-cadena-de-incumplimientos-y-desacatos-por-cgn-pronico-pone-en-riesgo-la-vida-de-las-personas-defensoras-de-la-vida/?fbclid=IwAR3Xi8biWGzQq2f_C_3PO29NZNTaOB0PGvKEQ5OtBihmf18Xo1hUjxx2Xks ...; Created on 12 June 2020
37. With Passage of NAFTA 2.0, Congress Boosts Fossil Fuel Polluters, Particularly in Mexico: (FTAs & ISDS); ... Corporations have used these rules repeatedly to demand compensation for environmental protections and other public interest laws and regulations that reduce the value of their investments. The new ...; Created on 03 May 2020
38. Guatemalan Water Protectors Persist, Despite Mining Company Threats: (Regional News); ... arbitration “there are really no hard and fast laws” and “misrepresentations of fact and gross mis-citations of authorities are rampant and, when discovered, usually go unpunished.” It is further worrisome ...; Created on 03 May 2020
39. Criminalization increases against environmental defenders and social movements of the Central American region: (Regional News); ... the creation of “anti-terrorism” laws. In the name of security and the fight against drug trafficking, human rights defenders have been unfairly criminalized. This context of violence for those who ...; Created on 26 December 2019
40. Social Organizations demand compliance with the Prohibition of Metal Mining: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... Disputes (ICSID), connected to the World Bank (WB), the Salvadoran State beat the lawsuit for 250 million dollars that Canadian based OceanaGold mining(formerly Pacific Rim) claimed for not obtaining the ...; Created on 26 December 2019

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