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21. Reclaim Your Rights: Defend Indigenous People’s Lands: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... indigenous territories. Wealth outpours to secure corporate profit at the expense of indigenous rights to land and environment protection. Imperialist plunder dominates over people’s health and lives. ...; Created on 17 December 2020
22. A Canadian Mining Giant Is Quietly Ramping Up Work in New Zealand. Locals Are Worried: (OceanaGold); ... faith and to uphold human rights and environmental protections. According to Delahunty, the difference between advocacy in the Philippines versus countries like New Zealand and Canada is that “we don’t ...; Created on 17 December 2020
23. U.S.-Backed ANDA Appointment Threatens the Salvadoran People’s Water Resources: (Water Crisis El Salvador); ... demanding the approval of the General Water Law that would regulate ANDA and would provide protection to community water councils that provide water to populations historically abandoned by the government. ...; Created on 01 December 2020
24. Mining Injustice Through International Arbitration: (ISDS); ... to provide adequate protection for KCA’s investment against local resistance. But KCA’s claim omits evidence of how violent police repression against peaceful protestors was used to open its mine. This ...; Created on 21 October 2020
25. Anti-mining community, Gina Lopez awarded as heroes for the environment: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... sidelined by authorities themselves. Another awardee is Alberto “Ka Bobby” Roldan, a community organizer active in in coastal community mangrove protection and rehabilitation activities in Central Luzon, ...; Created on 07 October 2020
26. How Honduras became one of the most dangerous countries to defend natural resources: (Mining and Human Rights); ... mountain was declared a National Park by Congress, mandating protection of water sources which serve more than 42,000 people, including the Guapinol river. Yet the following year, Congress reduced the ...; Created on 07 October 2020
27. After trying to protect water sources, these Hondurans have been held without bail for more than a year.: (Mining and Human Rights); ... also issued a call for the protection of Guapinol River defenders after unmarked vehicles were observed patrolling the community in an apparent act of intimidation. “Of course we’re scared. There is ...; Created on 25 September 2020
28. More ISDS cases launched against Latin American states amid the COVID-19 pandemic: (ISDS); ... off the supply due to a failure to pay bills during the crisis. The law firm Hogan Lovells warned that these measures “may encourage foreign investors to seek recourse under protections found in investment ...; Created on 01 September 2020
29. New Report: Mining Injustice Through International Arbitration: Countering Kappes, Cassiday & Associates’ Claims over a Gold-mining Project in Guatemala: (Regional News); ... is scary to think what further harm might be brought to communities from more protection of this sort,” Ellen Moore, International Mining Campaign Manager, Earthworks. KCA’s lawsuit is emblematic of ...; Created on 24 August 2020
30. Legal Defense: Honduran Courts Rule to Sustain Political Persecution in Guapinol Case: (Regional News); ... dated March 3, maintains the arbitrariness in the case and clearly points to politically motivated judicial persecution of local leaders and community members who have been at the forefront of environmental protection ...; Created on 18 August 2020
31. HONDURAS: Human rights defenders threatened by armed groups during quarantine: (Regional News); ... the territories and attack the defenders, the press release said. A total of 116 organizations from Honduras signed the letter addressed to the National Protection Mechanism for human rights defenders, ...; Created on 31 July 2020
32. Corporate Lawsuits Could Devastate Poor Countries Grappling with COVID-19: (FTAs & ISDS); ... from such claims. “While the future remains uncertain,” states Aceris Law, an international arbitration law firm, “the response to the Covid-19 pandemic is likely to violate various protections provided ...; Created on 23 July 2020
33. The state of Siege in Izabal and Alta Verapaz: shelters, poppies, and the fear of repression: (Regional News); ... plantations are reported. Jorge Santos, from the Unit for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders in Guatemala (UDEFEGUA), points out that during states of Siege they have detected an increase in the ...; Created on 22 July 2020
34. Lack of a Water Law prolongs the historical crisis in the country: (Regional News); ... has to do with the right of access to (public) information, citizen participation and access to justice in environmental matters and the creation of mechanisms for the protection of human rights defenders ...; Created on 17 June 2020
35. In El Estor: a chain of breaches and contempt by CGN-PRONICO puts the lives of human rights defenders at risk: (Regional News); ... granted legal protection to the fishermen and ordered the suspension of mining activities. The owners of CGN-PRONICO, a Russian-owned company based for tax reasons in the Swiss city of Zur, ignored the ...; Created on 12 June 2020
36. World Environment Day with nothing to celebrate: (Regional News); ... matters, citizen participation in environmental matters, legal and judicial protection in environmental matters, and their protection as environmental defenders,” Carlos Flores explained. Among the demands ...; Created on 06 June 2020
37. With Passage of NAFTA 2.0, Congress Boosts Fossil Fuel Polluters, Particularly in Mexico: (FTAs & ISDS); ... Corporations have used these rules repeatedly to demand compensation for environmental protections and other public interest laws and regulations that reduce the value of their investments. The new ...; Created on 03 May 2020
38. Arrests, harassment of environmental defenders amid COVID-19 Pandemic in the Philippines: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... Corp., and Coal Black Mining Corp. Gloria Tomalon’s family has a long tradition of activism and environmental protection. She is the sister of progressive and indigenous legislator Eufemia Cullamat of ...; Created on 21 April 2020
39. German parlamentarians demand justice for Honduran environmental activists: (Regional News); ... Secretariat for Human Rights. "They presented us with the protection mechanisms for human rights defenders," recalls Heike Hänsel, deputy from the The Left party and signatory to both letters. "However, ...; Created on 20 April 2020
40. Criminalization increases against environmental defenders and social movements of the Central American region: (Regional News); ... of criminalization and develop protection and security strategies for organizations and people affected by criminalization. Know international protection mechanisms and develop joint action strategies ...; Created on 26 December 2019

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