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In addition to direct criminalization against organizations and social leaders, governments have progressively restricted the margins of action of civil society in the exercise of their rights, through ...
... is still contesting. MODEVITE members are also fighting against other threats, including mining and militarization, while they organize Indigenous community governments in their communities. For their ...
... pointing to their environmental standards and efforts, including collaboration with local communities, governments, and other stakeholders, over water management and related concerns. However, Coumans ...
... FTAA.
It did not inform the local governments about its application and has not secured the free, prior and informed consent (FPIC) of the affected indigenous peoples.
This interim renewal smells ...
... governments is promising to take, and we must not forget that we need to determine who the intellectual authors of the environmentalists' death were. We have a mining ban, but cross-border mining remains ...
... committed with the explicit support of local governments who place the legal and repressive institutions of the states at the service of multinational corporations to ensure the application of commercial ...
... and the use of slave labour. Yet there are rarely any consequences for companies where they are headquartered and allowed to raise most of their money – namely, in Canada.Successive Canadian governments ...
... growing concerns over the ability of governments in the Global South to act decisively on serious environmental issues such as climate change.
In other words, in order to take meaningful environmental ...
... the harmful extraction industry.
The report examines all 38 known cases that have been brought by mining companies against governments in Latin America with increasing intensity in the last two decades. ...
... 78 human rights defenders killed during the last two governments in Peru, 67% died as a result of the actions of state forces during social protests."
The third stage of criminalisation is "the wa ...