... corporations to sue governments over any laws or actions that affect their ability to make profits.
They take away from sovereign governments the right to make laws that might protect the environment ...
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, ...
... El Salvador. For more than 20 years of consecutive right wing governments, marches to the presidential palace were stopped blocks away from the main entrance and were received with trench wire fences and ...
... Asuncion Mita, Guatemala , 18 kilometers away from Metapan.
A technical report carried out by Salvadoran authorities, after a visit to the mine, stated that the project has many shortcomings that could ...
... 75 metres away,” says Guevara, “but we never imagined that it was Dora, that she had been killed; there was a grassy slope and we couldn’t see where she had been killed.” He remembers Dora as a child: ...
... risk management policies, and a commitment to end the threat of mega mining and hydroelectric projects."
With the elections just a few days away, environmental leaders are already re-aligning their strategic ...
El Salvador is being sued by Pacific Rim Mining, a Canadian based corporation owned by Australia's OceanaGold, before the International Center for the Settlement of Investments Disputes –ICSID-. The ...
... directed at Mr. Guevara. Fortunately Mr. Guevara was not hit by a single bullet, but was less than one foot away from been hit. The attack occurred at dusk and from a distance that prevented the perpetrator ...
... to North. This "paradigm" of responsible mining focuses on increasing the taxes that corporations pay to the Southern government (or doing away with tax holidays). So, for instance, the Philippine government ...
... young boys play swordfight with ragged sticks in the rural Salvadoran town of San Sebastian. They advance toward each other, hopping from rock to rock, then pivot away in the nick of time. One boy edges ...