... failure, loss of consciousness and death if people are exposed to high amounts, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
OceanaGold said the December cyanide violation resulted ...
... a list of possible suspects this week. A no-drink notice was issued for Waikouaiti, Hawksbury and Karitane on February 2 after it was revealed high lead levels had been recorded in the water supply.
When ...
... Witness,” said Patricia Lisson of ICHRP-Canada (International Coalition for Human Rights in the Philippines-Canada). “In 2020, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights issued a report highlighting ...
... of deeply alarming corruption and human rights abuses being committed at the highest levels of the Honduran government,” said Merkley, who serves on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. “A failure to ...
... in the reformed constitutional charter approved on July 26, 2019, is a highly corporatized model of governance with minimal opportunities for participation. A primary authority, the Technical Secretary ...
... that warrants strict scrutiny. Mercury is such highly toxic pollution. It is really impossible to remediate.’’
Exposure to mercury can cause tremors, headaches, nerve damage, a loss of peripheral vision ...
... the United States and Europe won’t pay attention.
Canada Needs To End These Abuses With abuses by the mining industry being a regular occurrence in Peru, what makes Aduviri’s case unique is that a high-ranking ...
... Vizcaya is “highly susceptible” to landslides. According to Padilla, the MGB in 2011 has also listed the province as No. 3 among the 10 landslide-prone provinces in the Philippines. OGPI, however, said ...
... the social acceptability protocol under the Local Government Code of 1991.
“It is high time that the LGU of Nagtipunan should seek for accountability on the part of the mining firm, not only because ...
... payment of his salary, added to the risk of being a security employee. In El Salvador, this work involves a high risk of threats, physical attacks or even death by gangs.
"(At the beginning) I was worried ...
... the multiple measures applied in favor of former public officials and business executives implicated in high-impact corruption cases and who have been released by the justice in the application of the ...
... but that treaty protection was limited to assets “invested by investors”, so an action of investing was also required. In March 2020, Switzerland’s highest court set aside the Clorox award. Unpersuaded ...
... OceanaGold and New Zealand’s finance minister to the country’s High Court to stop the development of the new tailings pond. The group argued the company was allowed to acquire land near Waihi after the ...
... situations in various places and motivating people to undertake street actions demanding truly equitable and high quality water distribution.
As time passed and the water distribution situation grew ...
... social-cooperation agreement was set up to alleviate some of the residents’ sky-high medical costs, but under Equinox’s leadership, medicines arrived months late and were priced well above market rates. ...
... report exposes the misrepresentations and omissions in KCA’s claims to the International Center for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), while highlighting the inherent injustice in the supranational ...
... lack of transparency and meaningful participation” of communities affected by the exploitation of natural resources.
The highest-profile victim was the indigenous defender Berta Cáceres, who was assassinated ...
... in Honduras.... Honduras has the highest rate of killings per capita, making it the most dangerous country in the world for land and environmental defenders."
Polish LGBTI activists Jakub Gawron, Paulina ...
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“Of course we’re scared. There is no doubt that they want to send a strong message,” he says. “But we have our dignity and hold our heads high.”
In 2019, Mr. George and members of the Tocoa Municipal ...
... Salvador — where many working-class people live — are some of the most affected. According to EFE News Agency, one of these communities, Soyapango, also has the second-highest rate of COVID-19 contagion ...