Breaking the Silence
Vancouver-based mining company Pan American Silver held its Annual General Meeting (AGM) on May 12th: the final shareholder meeting for retiring founder and Board Chair Ross Beaty. ...
... industries and causing conflicts with communities. The corporate-friendly General Mining Law lifted a seven-year moratorium on new mining projects — it was developed with technical assistance and funding ...
... El Salvador’s attorney general’s office classified the killing as a “common gang crime,” but the water defenders were convinced that mining interests and their local political allies had masterminded the ...
... corporations – who are the largest source of human rights violations internationally – and not on just any kind of business. Now we have a more general treaty, which can hardly be effective given that ...
... won’t be stuck with a cleanup bill one day, Columbia lawyer Bob Guild said. “My view is they need to have more financial assurance, generally, and it needs to be in the most reliable form that is not subject ...
...
- Lidia Estela Cardona, Solicitor General of the Republic +504 2235-6100
- Oscar Chinchilla, Attorney General of the Republic suazog@mp.hn
- Rosa Seaman, Secretary of Human Rights rosaseamanhn@yahoo.com ...
... 6905 4602 – Passcode: 105533
When: February 25, 10:30 A.M. EST
Participants
Heather McPherson, Member of Parliament for Edmonton Strathcona Cristina Palabay, General Secretary, Karapatan (Philippines) ...
... city in South Korea.
The charter allows Próspera to operate as a corporation that can contract with private or public actors. One primary contract is with the General Service Provider (GSP), a private ...
JDSUPRA
With a total of 54 cases filed, 2020 was a record year for cases filed under the ICSID Convention, and with a total of 72 treaty-based cases, an important year in general for Investor-State Arbitration. ...
... or any other state entity, "says Lourdes Molina, senior economist.
According to data from the General Budget of the Nation for the years 2018, 2019 and 2020, the Ministry of Economy, at the program level, ...
... that the drafting of an arbitration clause is a multi-department process resting on both the contracting agency and the attorney general’s office.
Interpretation of treaty provisions – or lack thereof ...
... General Water Law that would guarantee the human right to water, protect community water councils, and prevent the sale and contamination of water resources. More than 90% of El Salvador’s potable water ...
... he was elected (see Fides, 12/2/2019). "For over a decade people have been asking for the urgent approval of a general law on water ... now the same people are tired of the lack of commitment and will to ...
... Los Filos general manager and explained that their efforts to address grievances with the manager assigned to them “always end with incomplete responses or without resolution and with arrogant acts and ...
... Recently, Frederick Benites, president of ANDA under the Nayib Bukele administration, informed the Attorney General of El Salvador about years of grave cases of mismanagement of public funds worth millions ...
... Honduras who have been criminalized by the Inversiones Los Pinares mining company and the Attorney General’s Office were notified that their appeals to dismiss the case were unsuccessful. The resolution, ...
... greenwashing.
The historic closure of big mines under the late former environment secretary Gina Lopez has been recently announced by current environment secretary and ex-general Roy Cimatu himself as ...
... and can result in environmental disasters like the ones they have already caused in Colombia.
During the pandemic international reports have identified general patterns of behavior and how the mining ...
... resume "urgently" the discussion of the General Law of Water.
The declaration recalls that "water is a source of life and a public good, whose access constitutes a fundamental human right", necessary in ...
... of the General Water Law. For this reason, as the National Alliance against the Privatization of Water, we ask this day to the deputies: 1.- The discussion of the General Water Law is urgently resumed ...