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21. Is El Salvador preparing to reverse its landmark mining ban?: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... Specifically, the water defenders were concerned about mining around the Lempa River Basin, which is one of the principal water sources in the country. It would take more than a decade and several lawsuits ...; Created on 03 April 2023
22. In Guatemala, Harris Should Address U.S. Policies That Put Corporations Over People: (Mining and Human Rights); ... or lacking in evidence. Violent eviction of the Peaceful Resistance La Puya, May 23, 2014. Photo: James Rodríguez, MiMundo.org A World Bank investment tribunal will rule on the KCA lawsuit against ...; Created on 07 June 2021
23. Scientists, fishers say new mining deals to cause more damage than good: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... threats and intimidation, illegal arrests, harassment lawsuits, and forced displacement. For instance, in April last year, the Philippine police nabbed Roland Pulido, chairman of Didipio Earth Saver’s ...; Created on 24 May 2021
24. Human Rights Advocates and Legal Experts Deliver Blueprint for New International Corporate Accountability Law in Canada: (Mining and Human Rights); ... to do its human rights and environmental due diligence, those affected would have the statutory right to bring a civil lawsuit against that company in Canadian court. “Canadian businesses that are already ...; Created on 21 May 2021
25. Canada’s Mining Industry Is Spreading Havoc Around the World — With Justin Trudeau’s Support: (Mining and Human Rights); ... The women first brought the suit to the Superior Court of Ontario in 2011. The Intercept recently published a damning article drawing on internal corporate documents that were released because of this ...; Created on 07 May 2021
26. A New Environmentalist Playbook An improbable victory in El Salvador offers lessons for grassroots activists worldwide: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... environment when the system is stacked against them? When El Salvador’s government imposed a de facto moratorium on new mining licenses, Pacific Rim filed a lawsuit in 2009 with the World Bank’s International ...; Created on 23 April 2021
27. Swiss mining transnational Glencore in the Andes: (General mining reports ); ... with metals in their blood in Peru; and outsourcing, child and labor, and a million-dollar lawsuit under an Investor-State Dispute Arbitration (ISDS) case in Bolivia. Glencore is one of the world’s largest ...; Created on 22 April 2021
28. 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
29. 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
30. 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
31. 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
32. 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
33. 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
34. Mining Injustice Through International Arbitration: (ISDS); ... can overrule or punish governments that fail to meet the demands of these corporations. Arbitration suits like this are made possible by international investment agreements, such as the Central America-Dominican ...; Created on 21 October 2020
35. 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
36. 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
37. New Report: Mining Injustice Through International Arbitration: Countering Kappes, Cassiday & Associates’ Claims over a Gold-mining Project in Guatemala: (Regional News); Institute for Policy Studies EarthWorks 400 million suit against the Guatemalan government. Released today, Mining Injustice Through International Arbitration: Countering Kappes, Cassiday & Associates’ ...; Created on 24 August 2020
38. 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
39. Webinar on Extractivism, Human Rights and ISDS: Hard Law vs Soft Law: (Mining and Human Rights); ... El Salvador). With reference to particular examples in Latin America they discussed arbitration suits (Investor State Dispute Settlement) which have been brought by extractive industries in relation to ...; Created on 28 June 2020
40. Lack of a Water Law prolongs the historical crisis in the country: (Regional News); ... Administration of Aqueducts and Sewers (ANDA) authorities allowed the supply of water with characteristics not suitable for human consumption. When facing an appeal process before the Legislative Assembly, ...; Created on 17 June 2020

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