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21. International report finds that the Honduran government violates the rights of Tocoa's environmental defender: (Regional News); ... the local oligarchy that has controlled post-coup governments are at the roots of the current conflict in Bajo Aguan. According to the study, successive governments have deepened neoliberal policies, ...; Created on 20 April 2020
22. The PPDDH presents a report that addresses the socio-environmental impacts of the San Sebastián Mine: (Commerce Group); ... promote concrete actions to allow progress in the remediation, design and implementation of policies to deal with the main human rights challenges arising in the area. These challenges are mainly connected ...; Created on 26 December 2019
23. Environmentalists Denounce that Central American governments favor mining companies and criminalize activists: (Regional News); ... During the meeting, taking place in the municipality of Ataco, Ahuachapán, attendees shared experiences with anti-mining activists of Peru who talked about the struggles, policies, social and environmental ...; Created on 26 December 2019
24. Land Defenders Are Killed in the Philippines for Protesting Canadian Mining: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... of weak policies overseas? They’re benefiting from human rights violations here in the Philippines; they’re benefiting from natural resource plunder,” said Dulce. After being red-tagged in 2018, Simongo ...; Created on 04 October 2019
25. National Alliance Against the Privatization of Water “Water is not for sale, we care for it and defend it: (Water Crisis El Salvador); ... lost to growing urbanization and an agribusiness that is out of control. In addition to this, a weakened state that has been incapable of creating public policies and laws to address these issues, nor ...; Created on 26 September 2019
26. Getting the shaft on mining abuses: (Background and reports ); ... have recognized there’s a problem but have responded with policies and oversight bodies that are powerless by design. For example, the establishment of a Corporate Social Responsibility Counsellor, ...; Created on 05 May 2019
27. Canadian mining companies are behaving badly in the Global South—and Wall Street is profiting from it: (FTAs & ISDS); ... protections that permits foreign firms to challenge government policies, laws and court decisions through private arbitration.Under the USMCA, this investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) system will ...; Created on 05 May 2019
28. Over two hundred organizations denounce multimillion-dollar suit brought by U.S. mining firm against Guatemala: (Media Releases); ... and social opposition. This would be yet another example of the ‘chilling effect’ that agreements like CAFTA-DR have on public and regulatory policies,” remarked Manuel Pérez-Rocha of the Institute for ...; Created on 04 May 2019
29. New Report Exposes Mining Companies Suing Latin American Countries Where Communities Defend Land and Environment: (FTAs & ISDS); ... They are suing for millions and billions of dollars as a result of court decisions, public policies, and other government measures that they claim reduce the value of their investments. In the majority ...; Created on 03 May 2019
30. THE STRUGGLE FOR GOOD WATER GOVERNANCE CONTINUES IN EL SALVADOR: (Water Crisis El Salvador); ... experts. The main cause of the current crisis is poor water management (pollution and over-exploitation) due to the lack of policies (General Water Law), practices and programs that ensure good governance. ...; Created on 27 August 2018
31. Founding statement: National Alliance against Water Privatization in El Salvador: (Media Releases); ... local watershed committees, assigning permits, resolving conflicts over the use of water, establishing fees for services, regulating tariffs and other strategic policies of the national water distribution ...; Created on 25 June 2018
32. “Latin American Countries exposed to law suits from transnational comporations: Manuel Pérez Rocha: (Regional News); ... extractive companies. These companies, openly defy public policies that preserve the environment and the rights of the local communities."A report from the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, shows ...; Created on 10 May 2018
33. COMMUNIQUE: The State of the Right to Free Prior and Informed Consent in the CA4 Region: (Media Releases); ... shared strategies of struggle as we face the challenges that the extractive industries and the governments impose on the people. Since colonization, the world powers have promoted policies of plundering ...; Created on 08 May 2018
34. El Salvador – When The Seeds Of Resistance Bloom: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... with the threat of legal action, creating a ‘chilling effect’ on responsible public interest policies. Their rulings are based on the legal protections for investors granted in free trade and investment ...; Created on 23 June 2017
35. PRESS RELEASE: Coalition of Groups States “There are No Winners”: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... for the government to enact a prohibition on any metal mining." “By allowing transnational companies to blackmail governments to try to force them to adopt policies that favor corporations, investor-state ...; Created on 14 October 2016
36. Myths and Omissions: Unpacking Obama Administration Defenses of Investor-State Corporate Privileges: (General mining reports ); 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 ...; Created on 30 April 2016
37. CAFTA Investor Rights Undermining Democracy and the Environment: Commerce Group Case: (ISDS); Public Citizen Global Trade Watch The Commerce Group Corporation attacked El Salvador’s environmental policies under the CAFTA when the company’s environmental permits for gold mining in Northeastern ...; Created on 30 April 2016
38. El Salvador: Just Saying No to Gold Mining: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); * Rachel Nadelman: Aula Blog El Salvador’s refusal to allow gold mining within its borders sets it apart from most other Latin American countries, but the mining suspension is far from permanent. Since ...; Created on 03 January 2016
39. Statement in support of El Salvador from Amianan Salakniban in the Philippines (2): (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... decision based on their national laws and policies intended to safeguard human and environmental health, and say the project would threaten the country’s water supply. According to El Salvador’s ministry ...; Created on 28 October 2015
40. CAFTA-DR Mostly constitutional: Constitutional chamber Rules in El Salvador: (FTAs & ISDS); ... El Salvador can, according to its internal needs and priorities, adopt economic policies that exclude productive sectors or trade activities from national treatment and most favoured nation status. Rushed ...; Created on 31 May 2015

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