... Given its track record, OceanaGold should also be considered ineligible for the additional exploration permits it has requested for areas around the Didipio mine.
The study found:
a number of instances ...
...
"We live under uncertainty."
If it is difficult for activists of Madre Selva to obtain official information, the situation is even worse for the residents of the communities located around the mining ...
... presence in the region, the around-the-clock resistance camp continues today.
In 2016, Guatemala’s Supreme Court suspended KCA’s operations over failure to consult with Indigenous people in the area, ...
... shared by Peru and Bolivia); the lack of consultation of local communities; questions around the legality of the project; a lack of transparency; and the company’s negotiating in bad faith with the communities. ...
... in Guatemala City. Community members from the region around the mine have maintained a permanent presence outside the court since late last year. Residents are fighting to protect the water and land from ...
... carried out in the case. It’s the other way around..the Aymara people choose their representatives or spokespersons to give voice to the issues that the community is facing.”
Precedent
The use of these ...
... Guatemala, where 63 percent of the population is indigenous, around 90 such consultations have been held, by show of hands.
“Before the hydroelectric companies were to arrive, we began to carry out consultations, ...
... stage.
Displacement, human rights violations
In addition to the failures of reforestation, we found widespread displacement of families around the mine site in Nueva Vizcaya, and human rights violations ...
... all party support in March 2018, was celebrated around the world as a victory of small country that chose to protect the health of its people over the interest of large multinational corporations. But ...
... around the world as an important victory of a broad movement of Salvadoran communities, social and non-governmental organizations, and faith groups in concert with international partners. They kept pressure ...
... for remedy for the many mining-affected people we have been working with around the world since 1999, to investigate and validate their complaints, and to at least exclude those found to have violated ...
John Cavanagh, Robin Broad : RAPPLER
OceanaGold was stunningly defeated in El Salvador last March. Can it be defeated in the Philippines by 2019?
In March 2017, the small nation of El Salvador took ...