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1. A Binding Treaty about corporations can be an instrument to guarantee the respect of our rights and territories: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... Before these violations happened, and up to this date, we were not in possession of a judicial instrument that can help communities to access justice and have companies respect and not prey on our rights ...; Created on 14 November 2017
2. 250+ Groups Call On El Salvador to Drop Charges Against Water Defenders: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... defenders who were instrumental in achieving a 2017 legislative ban on metal mining in El Salvador. Global alarm has been building since Miguel Ángel Gámez, Alejandro Laínez García, Pedro Antonio Rivas ...; Created on 20 January 2023
3. In Guatemala, Harris Should Address U.S. Policies That Put Corporations Over People: (Mining and Human Rights); ... been used as a neocolonial instrument to discipline and punish governments and peoples in the Global South in order to protect transnational companies over everything else. Nearly a third of the more ...; Created on 07 June 2021
4. Swiss mining transnational Glencore in the Andes: (General mining reports ); Terra Justa The mining giant's activities in Latin America and how they demonstrate the need for a binding instrument on Business and Human Rights. In June 2020, a statement signed by more than 200 ...; Created on 22 April 2021
5. What Salvadoran Activists Can Teach Us About Building Coalitions: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... its female leaders—proved instrumental. But notable heroes also emerged in the right-wing ARENA party. This is especially significant if you remember that from 1980 to 1992, roughly 75,000 people were ...; Created on 05 April 2021
6. The Status of Investor-State Arbitration in Latin America in 2021: (ISDS); ... debt instruments by Mexican courts, the alleged taking of certain tourism facilities in Tulum and a dispute relating to the treatment of a satellite services provider Additionally, Mexico risks facing ...; Created on 21 January 2021
7. Vizcaya gov still opposes Didipio: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... the local governments from the barangay to the province, put barricades up in July 2019 to prevent the company from operating after its FTAA expired. The action was instrumental in forcing the company ...; Created on 08 January 2021
8. Pandemic fuels mining extraction in Latin America: (Regional News); ... that the extraction of minerals is necessary to manufacture respirators and medical instruments. However, there are raw materials available, without the need for continued exploitation. “Some 500 communities ...; Created on 09 August 2020
9. In El Estor: a chain of breaches and contempt by CGN-PRONICO puts the lives of human rights defenders at risk: (Regional News); ... the International Labor Organization on the Rights of Indigenous and Tribal Peoples is an instrument of human rights protection signed and ratified by the State of Guatemala in the 1990s. Among other provisions, ...; Created on 12 June 2020
10. Guatemalan Water Protectors Persist, Despite Mining Company Threats: (Regional News); ... in 1994. Ecuador’s 2008 Constitution in Article 422 declares that treaties or international instruments that permit international arbitration are unconstitutional for undermining the nation´s sovereignty. ...; Created on 03 May 2020
11. Arrests, harassment of environmental defenders amid COVID-19 Pandemic in the Philippines: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... Human Rights and all major Human Rights instruments that it is a party and signatory. You may send your communications to: H.E. Rodrigo Duterte President of the Republic Malacañang Palace, JP ...; Created on 21 April 2020
12. Social Organizations demand compliance with the Prohibition of Metal Mining: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... Yet, the technical and legal instruments for its thorough implementation are still lacking, Calles explained. “We regret that proper mine closures are not being carried out. We as ACAFREMIN have contributed ...; Created on 26 December 2019
13. “Latin American Countries exposed to law suits from transnational comporations: Manuel Pérez Rocha: (Regional News); ... His talk focused on the advances of corporate rights, which through legal instruments such as free trade and investments agreements are strengthening the power of multinational corporations – TNCs, and ...; Created on 10 May 2018
14. El Salvador – When The Seeds Of Resistance Bloom: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... Pérez-Rocha, “we were able to weave together the strands of this narrative, connecting water, health and the local defence of resources and territory to the imposition of corporate power by means of instruments ...; Created on 23 June 2017
15. Transnational mining company loses the battle, but the war continues.: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... that prohibit extractive activity, but that may have little effect in practice since these legal instruments are not above national laws or the constitution. The Mining and Hydrocarbons Law, in force ...; Created on 05 January 2017
16. PRESS RELEASE: Permanent Alert against Metallic Mining in El Salvador: (Media Releases); ... action is required for its approval. Both the Executive Decree and the Prohibition Law are instruments to prevent the looting of El Salvador's natural assets and guarantee respect for the human rights of ...; Created on 04 January 2017
17. EL SALVADOR’S WIN AGAINST THE US MINING COMPANY PACIFIC RIM: A VERY NUANCED VICTORY: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... session of the Inter-governmental Group on the elaboration of this instrument have shown there is a long term alternative. Similarly this case is interesting because the third pillar of the UN Guiding ...; Created on 28 December 2016
18. El Salvador wins arbitration against Oceana Gold/Pacific Rim mining company: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... Salvador, that would also avoid similar arbitrations. Now we are in front of a new setting, in which the Government and the Legislative Assembly have no longer excuses for not passing the legal instruments ...; Created on 20 October 2016
19. Peoples Sovereignty vs Impunity Inc.: (Mining and Human Rights); ... of the "Open-ended intergovernmental working group on an international legally binding instrument on transnational corporations and other business enterprises with respect to human rights”, which is to ...; Created on 12 July 2015
20. The water issue is thorny for the right wing in El Salvador: Interview with Lourdes Palacios: (Mining and Human Rights); ... would have been in discussion for 9 years at the Legislature. And through all this time, we have stressed the need for this country to have this important instrument of public policy. For the FMLN the ...; Created on 23 January 2015

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