... Honduras when they challenge the legality of corporate mega projects and the power of extractive industries.
Specifically, the report finds that in the case of the licences granted to Inversiones los ...
... highlights that for the Canadian companies who pursue ISDS across all economic sectors, environmental policy is the fastest growing trigger for such cases. The report further finds that financial speculators ...
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(Ottawa/Washington/Melbourne) A new study finds that OceanaGold’s attempt to rebrand its proposed gold mine in El Salvador through the use of a company-sponsored foundation ...
... corporations against governments: the World Bank’s International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID). It finds significant ICSID bias in favour of corporations and commercial interests ...
... yet finds it impossible to contemplate that corporations should have enforceable obligations too.
For communities affected by human rights abuses these pragmatic arguments don’t wash. Pragmatism has ...
... several groups in El Salvador’s Cabañas department that were drawn into mining debates when a Canadian company tried to re-open an old gold mine in the area. ADES now finds itself involved in the national ...
... for mining legislation in 2012, which outlines a temporary suspension of all administrative processes related to mining concessions, a proposal which theNational Roundtable against Metallic Mining finds ...
... life. Individual family members are pitted against each other, as they often were during the war. Entire communities enter into conflict with neighboring communities and the citizenry in general finds ...