... of Malahutayong Pakigbisog Alansa sa Sumusunod (Mapasu) and was massacred along with two others by members of the government-affiliated paramilitary group Magahat-Bagani on September 1, 2015.
Aside from ...
... urgent law.
However, we are appalled at the decision to start from scratch, once again, annulling the important agreements and progress made in 2013-2015 by the sitting Commission. Faced with this situation, ...
... and violations of the right to due process, including the fact that one of the defendants has been dead since 2015, all 12 were cleared by a National court in March2019. The Attorney General´s Office, ...
... producer, according to Kalikasan.
A third of those killed were Indigenous, like the Lumad leaders from the island of Mindanao in 2015. The Lumad have long been displaced by the encroachment of mining ...
... Japan; Chatham Rock Phosphate, in New Zealand, where a project similar to the Mexican one has been suspended since 2015. And Oceanica Resources, based in Panama.
Through the subsidiary Exploraciones ...
... March 2015.
July 1, 2014 -- Two PBI-Guatemala Project field volunteers who had witnessed the police action are told by Guatemalan officials that they have to leave the country within 10 days.
May 26, ...
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Ignoring Consistent Pleas to Comply with the Rule of Law
The most recent Supreme Court’s ruling upholds a July 2015 ruling by a Court of Appeals judge, who agreed with the members of the peaceful resistance ...
... effects of corporate mining activities. Various solidarity and investigative missions have also been held in Didipio in the Philippines, for instance in 2011, 2014 and 2015. These have exposed the implications ...
... ratification of the constitutional reform to recognize the right to food and water before the end of the 2015-2018 legislature, thus killing any possibility of constitutional recognition.
During ...
... to El Salvador in 2015, to invest in the Calleja Foundation and in its program "Cultivating opportunities".
This investment helped Carlos Calleja, the president of the Calleja Foundation, become part of ...
... and www.ips-dc.org/debunking_eight_falsehoods_by_pacific_rim_mining/; on the topic of accompaniment, see www.ethicsandinternationalaffairs.org/2015/the-responsibility-to-accompany-a-framework-for-multilateral-support-of-grassroots-nonviolent-resistance/. ...
... 2015 setting an all time record of 74 new cases in just one year.
Pacific Rim is a Canadian company, also registered in the Cayman Islands tax haven. In its first attempt to bring the ISDS case against ...
... its part, the PDDH is determined to continue pushing for the implementation of their 2015 recommendations. They also want the Government of El Salvador and the international community to put pressure on ...
... and has rallied the overwhelming majority of the public against mining. A 2015 poll commissioned by the University of Central America found that close to four-fifths of Salvadorans opposed mining. El ...
... sum for a cash-strapped country, the equivalent of 40 percent of El Salvador’s entire public health budget in 2015
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The mining company demanded $250 million, the equivalent ...
... delivered the first proposal for a "General Water Law" to the Legislative Assembly, yet our country still does not have a regulatory framework governing the different uses of water.
In October 2015, the ...
... of the International People’s Conference on Mining, a global gathering in 2015 of activists, advocates, experts, and grassroots leaders hailing from 29 different countries that have united in opposing ...
... conducts a quantitative analysis to identify trends in the use of ISDS by Canadian investors, explores ISDS through various case studies and discussed policy implications for Canada.
https://www.policyalternatives.ca/sites/default/files/uploads/publications/National%20Office/2015/08/Losing_Proposition.pdf ...
Aguiar and Vargas, 2015
This paper exemplifies several articles describing different struggles that have occurred between transnational corporations and people fighting for their rights. One of them ...
Orellana et al., 2015
There is an ongoing democratic debate in El Salvador in relation to metals mining and sustainable development. This is a description of the Pacific Rim case and the role of anti-mining ...