... argue that ISDS is used to challenge actions taken by the state to protect the environment, public health or other important policy decisions. This report provides background information on the ISDS process, ...
When it Comes to Mining, the Canadian Government has a Closed Door Policy, Even to Canadian Citizens
On Wednesday June 13, the National Roundtable against Metallic Mining (the Mesa) held a rally in ...
... the world and was celebrated as a landmark step for environmental policy.
But in recent years, President Nayib Bukele’s government has taken some steps that suggest it’s reconsidering its position on ...
... en Viena, Austria.
27 de abril: (WASHIGNTON, DC) 4:00PM Rally: Libertad para los Defensores del Agua,Embajada de El Salvador, 1400 16th St., NW MÁS INFORMACIÓN AQUÍ (Lidera, CISPES,Institute for Policy ...
... DC) 4:00PM Demonstration: Freedom for the Water Defenders Embassy of El Salvador, 1400 16th St., NW MORE INFORMATION HERE (CISPES, Institute for Policy Studies, Washington Ethical Society, International ...
... cryptocurrency investments provides some context for his apparent interest in reintroducing mining to El Salvador. According to a statement by the Institute for Policy Studies, the Bukele government is ...
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In a statement, the Washington-based Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) said the government’s decision to arrest the five men while blocking justice in high-profile cases like the El Mozote massacre ...
... victims. “The arrests are politically motivated as they seek to silence these water defenders and to demobilize community opposition at this critical moment,” the Institute for Policy Studies, a progressive ...
... crusade to criminalize, persecute, and demobilize its political opponents," adds the statement, spearheaded by the U.S.-based Institute for Policy Studies (IPS)—which in 2009 honored the National Roundtabl ...
... a state (a government project to create areas subject to a special regime, where investors would be in charge of tax policy, security and conflict resolution). They are actually monarchies because we are ...
... Intergovernmental Forum on Mining, Minerals, Metals and Development (IGF), an organization of Canadian origin that promotes best practices of mining in its member countries. According to policy statements ...
... policy will hasten not our recovery, but our environment’s destruction. Hence, it is one that the Filipino citizenry must forcefully reject, before it is too late.
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Efenita Taqueban is an anthropologist, ...
... national industrialization plan and a more robust environmental safety policy regime is in place to rationalize the management of our mineral resources,” Kalikasan PNE said.
Mining moratorium lifted ...
... West Philippine Sea.
Pass ‘green’ recovery measures instead
Kalikasan PNE urged the government to enforce what it called a “green recovery policy,” instead of reviving pro-mining measures.
The group ...
... companies have seen a warm welcome from the Philippine government. “By government policy, the Philippines is wide open to foreign companies, especially the extractive business of mining. The regime of ...
... on no fewer than 530 separate occasions. Lobbyists met officials in the prime minister’s office alone thirty-three times.
Liberal Supports Justin Trudeau has lined up Canadian foreign policy behind the ...
... in Tocoa.
The Institute for Policy Studies, Washington’s first progressive multi-issue think tank, awarded the community committee with the international Letelier-Moffitt Human Rights award. In 2020, ...
... Chamber of Mines of the Philippines said the removal of the "policy roadblock" would encourage local and foreign investment.
Mining projects "will provide additional government revenues in the form of ...
... was selected to win the Institute for Policy Studies (where Cavanagh works) Letelier-Moffitt Human Rights Award. They briefly describe Rivera’s disappearance and eventual discovery, murdered, at the bottom ...
... 50 defenders killed in 2019 For more on mining-related human and environmental abuses, see MiningWatch Canada and Institute for Policy Studies. OceanaGold in the Philippines: Ten Violations that Should ...