... to hold accountable the global harm aggressively spurred by Australian-Canadian mining giant OceanaGold.
Member organizations of the International People’s Conference on Mining led the initiative at the ...
... part to protect the public from the narrow interests of giant corporations. One important step is to stop the TPP from getting congressional approval. Hopefully the TransCanada lawsuit, by making clear ...
... for El Salvador’s Day of Action against OceanaGold last October 22.
“The victory of the people of El Salvador to protect their water and their environment against a mining giant should be defended vigorously. ...
... have been in legal battles for almost two decades to secure compensation from California oil giant Chevron for oil spills that contaminated indigenous communities’ soil, rivers and groundwater. Chevron ...
Dismantle Corporate Power and End Impunity
Philippine groups express solidarity to people of El Salvador in fight against mining giant Oceana Gold/Pacific Rim Mining Corporation
Alyansa Tigil Mina ...
... or the health and livelihoods of their population where those things might reduce the profits of multinationals.
Australia has also been caught up in this trend. Tobacco giant Philip Morris has moved ...
... and Royal Dutch Shell in Nigeria; cases of mining giants such as Glencore in the Philippines, Peru, Colombia, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Zambia; the systematic violation of human rights by the ...
... the agreements’ egregious rules that grant giant corporations unreasonable powers to subvert democracy. These rules, dubbed “investor rights” by the corporations, allow firms to sue governments over actions—including ...
... Human Rights Ombudsman. Cerro Blanco is owned by Goldcorp, a Canadian mining giant that also owns the Marlin Mine whose record of pollution has raised opposition to mining throughout western Guatemala. ...
... concerned and is trying to take measures against the company.”
Intimidation
Violence is often used by giant companies to intimidate locals out of challenging destructive corporate practices. The struggle ...
... of the Canadian gold mining giant Gold Corp., owns the Cerro Blanco mine. Gold Corp has been strongly criticized throughout Latin America for the environmental destruction, health problems and social ...
... mining giant Anglo American took place behind closed doors on May 5th 2020. The company is the owner of the Quellaveco copper mine in the Moquegua region of southern Peru, scheduled to begin operations ...