Terra Justa Aldo Orellana Lopez of TerraJusta joined panellists Carla García Zendejas (Center for International Environmental Law), Jen Moore (Institute for Policy Studies), and Vidalina Morales (Cripdes ...
... the law.
Despite the president’s popularity, mostly due to his hard-line approach to gangs and crime, the Salvadoran economy is failing and the government is in desperate need to attract foreign investment. In ...
Minería Panamericana
Peruvian mining companies were among the hardest hit in a broad wave of sales driven by the close presidential race in which Pedro Castillo (Peru Libre), the rural school teacher ...
... are devastating to the well-being of rural communities and Indigenous peoples, while allowing private corporations to sue governments over hard-fought social and environmental protections.
Case in ...
... fought to protect local water resources against foreign mining companies. Broad and Cavanagh, a wife-and-husband team of development scholars who joined in the water defenders’ movement, detail the hardships, ...
... corporations – who are the largest source of human rights violations internationally – and not on just any kind of business. Now we have a more general treaty, which can hardly be effective given that ...
... violation and compliance history,’’ Tynan said. “They’re going to get an incredibly hard look by the conservation community as well as DHEC.’’
Meanwhile, a leading environmental attorney said this week ...
... claiming it had been deprived of its right to start a gold mine. Luis, you helped win that case for El Salvador's government. How big a surprise was that victory?
Luis Parada: Well, it was a very hard ...
... Is Investigated by U.S. Federal Prosecutors for Drug Trafficking, Corruption
Washington, D.C. – Oregon’s U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley, and Senators Patrick Leahy (D-VT) and Richard Durbin (D-IL) today led ...
... destroy it. By employing that kind of fertilizer, the soil is ruined, it becomes hard. On the contrary, by utilizing organic compost the land is being repaired and the soil fertilized,” she said.
In ...
... any of those mechanisms without the State’s agreement. The majority was not persuaded and held that a difference in wording between treaties could hardly prove which interpretation should be preferred, ...
... International Indigenous Peoples Movement for Self-Determination and Liberation (IPMSDL) Rights are earned through hard-fought struggles. And for Indigenous Peoples (IP), its fulfillment comes from the ...
VICE
Anya Zoledziowski
In the latest allegations against Canadian mining, conservationists say new projects could destroy protected lands and further harm endangered species.
A Canadian-Australian ...
... been felt since the mine began operations more than ten years ago.
The community’s social-cooperation agreement, and its accompanying land-use agreement, were hard-won. In 2007, when the community learned ...
... Award in 2015.
Tilly Metz, a Luxemburgish member of the Greens/EFA group, described the hard times human rights activists are having in Honduras. “These are two symbolic cases showing injustice and impunity ...
... of the energy sector. The present and future Mexican governments will find it hard to reverse these policies without the risk of being sued at international investment tribunals. The risk of lawsuits by ...
Jen Moore - Counter punch
The hard work of protecting water and land from the long-term harms associated with gold and silver mining takes place daily on the frontlines of tenacious struggles throughout ...
... they name individuals as supporters of communist parties, “those are based on information in our possession sourced from captured documents, forensics of computers, cellular phones, external hard drives, ...
... and health and environment protections into law. When mining companies use ISDS, they challenge not only state sovereignty, but also the few hard-won laws and decisions that allow communities to defend ...
... go to jail, my son is not a thief, he is not corrupt, he is not a murderer,” he said, lamenting the great hardships that this process has brought on his entire family.
Also present was Patricio Illacutipa ...