... to President Rodrigo Roa Duterte through a petition not to renew the FTAA of OceanaGold because of its “blatant disregard” of the ancestral domain right of the indigenous peoples (IP).
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... nullify the directive. On July 25, the local court upheld the order.
Meanwhile, the Bugkalot indigenous peoples community in the provinces of Quirino, Aurora, Nueva Vizcaya and Nueva Ecija claiming ancestral ...
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Indigenous Peoples, advocates and members of IPMSDL call for continuing struggle for self-determination to combat imperialist plunder and state-terror. Credit: Carlo Manalansan, ...
... for wealth over the lives of individuals and peoples.”
This month, the case is set to be back in court, and all eyes are on Guapinol. A judge will decide whether the men should be released to face their ...
... of peoples, to the detriment of biodiversity and to the detriment of the cultural diversity of indigenous nations who are the guardians of nature since time immemorial.
As member organizations of the ...
... were Indigenous peoples. We get an update from Honduras, where the Afro-Indigenous Garífuna community continues to demand the safe return of five Garífuna land defenders who were kidnapped by heavily armed ...
... territory, of indigenous peoples and of the environment has increased dramatically. According to the NGO Front Line Defenders, 304 activists were killed in Honduras in 2019. The number of cases has quadrupled ...
... is crucial to the future of all. The principle obstacle standing in their way to unfettered extraction have been local communities and Indigenous peoples unwilling to accept the destruction of their land, ...
... to the mine in 2005 by the Ministry of Energy and Mines (MEM ) did not respect the due process of prior consultation of the affected indigenous peoples in four municipalities. Julio Gonzáles, representative ...
... with Communities, Indigenous Peoples and Workers at risk from Mining Pandemic Profiteers”. These trends pose an immediate threat to the health and safety of communities and organizations that have been ...
... Nickel Company) for breach of the Free, Prior, and Informed Consultation of Indigenous Peoples as stipulated by ILO Convention 169 [1]. In the middle of last year, the Constitutional Court of Guatemala ...
... of the Commons of Tocoa, and national and international human rights organizations have mobilized within the framework of the "Meeting of the peoples for water", to demand freedom of the seven defenders. ...
Tegucigalpa, February 26, 2020 – Preliminary conclusions of a report commissioned by the Central American Alliance against Mining (ACAFREMIN) - presented at the Peoples for Water meeting in Tegucigalpa, ...
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Social and environmental movements in the defense of human rights, groups of environmental women, indigenous peoples among other expressions organized mainly from the Central American region ...
... Abarca award for environmental defense. MODEVITE has a presence in eleven municipalities, organizing with Tzeltal, Tzotzil and Ch’ol Indigenous peoples from the highlands and lowlands of Chiapas who are ...
... by Canadian mining sites say companies are failing to meet their own high standards.
“Canadian mining companies are complicit in the violations of the rights of Indigenous peoples not only because there ...
... 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 ...
... laws and decrees. The authors conclude that this mine has significant negative impacts on water, forests, land, indigenous peoples, human rights, biodiversity, and workers’ rights.
Hence, the authors ...
ON WORLD INDIGENOUS PEOPLE’S DAY, THE GLOBAL NETWORK YES TO LIFE NO TO MINING JOINS THE GLOBAL PROTEST AGAINST OCEANA GOLD WITH ITS MEMBER ORGANISATION KALIKASAN FROM THE PHILIPPINES
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... laws and decisions protecting indigenous peoples’ rights, the environment, and community health. The companies examined used arbitration particularly where communities are engaged in struggles against ...