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The Commerce Group Corporation attacked El Salvador’s environmental policies under the CAFTA when the company’s environmental permits for gold mining in Northeastern ...
Public Citizen
Pacific Rim Mining Corp. is a Canadian-based firm attempted to establish a gold mine in the River Lempa basin, El Salvador’s largest river. This generated a large debate about the health ...
... Convention No. 169 was developed to protect self-identified indigenous people and attempts to address all key aspects of indigenous peoples’ rights. This is a guide to provide governments, indigenous and ...
... communities, organization that defend human rights, mining companies and public authorities. This report gives a voice to human rights defenders who are fighting for their right to land and a clean environment ...
D. Kingsbury 2014, OXFAM Australia
This report examines the issues of the El Dorado gold mine project, and past and potential future impacts that has and already had on the Salvadoran environment, society ...
... promote a simple strategy that could save the public billions of dollars.
Yanira Cortez, Deputy Attorney for the Environment for El Salvador's Human Rights Ombudsperson's Office and Marcos Gálvez, President ...
Toronto (Canada), May 12 (EFE Noticias) .- The Ombudsperson for the Defense of the Rights of Environment of El Salvador, Yanira Cortez, began a tour of Canada today to talk about the case of OceanaGold ...
... to salvage a last minute deal to enshrine the rights to food and water in the constitution.
For more than six years a diverse movement of civil society organizations, accompanied by the Ombudsman ...
UNHRC moves away from voluntary standards and towards a binding treaty to prevent transnationalcorporations human rights violations
Twenty country members of the United Nations Human Rights Council, ...
... rights.”
The case of Pacific Rim-OceanaGold and the human rights violations the company has engaged in while in El Salvador was presented in Geneva by Saul Baños, a member of La Mesa and a lawyer with ...
By Danielle Marie Mackey
First published in: http://www.guernicamag.com/features/the-rights-clash/
Mining in El Salvador exposes the contradiction between human rights and corporate rights under ...
Investor Rights Strip Communities of their Basic National Sovereignty
On the day of the expected Pacific Rim decision, the National Roundtable against Metallic Mining organized a press conference with ...
CAFTA Investor Rights Undermining Democracy and the Environment: Pacific Rim Mining Case
2010
Pacific Rim Mining Corp., a Canadian-based multinational firm, sought to establish a massive gold mine ...
The costs of ICSID arbitration and the consequences for the enjoyment of social rights in El Salvador
February, 2012
By the Foundation for Studies on the Application of Law (FESPAD, a Member of the ...
The CAC Reports a New Round of Threats
On the heels of the one year anniversary of the murder of Juan Francisco Duran, the Environmental Committee of Cabañas (CAC) reports new threats towards ...
... - which involves the suspension of various constitutional rights-, but in this case, it should not apply because those charged have no relationships with gangs.
In view of these events, the undersigned ...
... industry.”
The Guatemalan Constitution (1985), ILO 169 (ratified in 1996), the Municipal Code (2002), and the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (2007) all recognize the ...
... about possible criminalization actions against environmental and human rights defenders of Asunción Mita, Jutiapa, Guatemala, and we urge the Guatemalan government and the company Bluestone Resources INC ...
... which recognizes that clean potable water and sanitation are essential for the implementation of all human rights, has been recognized by the States of Guatemala and El Salvador, specifically.
4. That ...
... (also known as Organización Fraternal Negra Hondureña, OFRANEH). This organization works to vindicate the cultural, political, and territorial rights of the Garifuna people.
* For its work defending ...