... hammer home the point. The 2020 “Lawless Amazon” project by the Brazilian media outlet Agência Pública details how mining, sugar, and cattle interests have overrun indigenous communities in their drive ...
... and cultural impacts of coal mining have been widely documented in Colombia. More than 25 Wayúu and Afro-descendant indigenous communities have been dispossessed and displaced by force from their ancestral ...
... multinational miner” and that it had the strong endorsement of residents in local communities in and around the mine, including Indigenous people.
In fact, the mine is strongly opposed by local communities ...
... to Mongabay. “Lifting the moratorium exposes this administration’s support for mining projects that will impact our water, food supply, forest, biodiversity, Indigenous communities and fragile island ecosystems.” ...
... called for Goldcorp’s Marlin mine to be shut down in 2010. The commission made the unprecedented request in response to evidence that Indigenous communities had not been consulted about the mine and concerns ...
... groups,” she added.
Community members from Didipio, Nueva Vizcaya, accuse Canadian OceanaGold’s copper-gold project of serious human rights and environmental abuses. “In 2018, local indigenous people, ...
... According to the Permit Registrar of PZ, investors are even able to apply for an Indigenous Impact Permit when a project poses a “substantial risk of involuntary displacement of indigenous populations ...
... what pushing back against Canadian corporate interests can do. In 2011, Aduviri, an Indigenous Aymara leader from Peru’s Puno region, helped lead a protest movement against a silver mine in the region ...
... the FTAA renewal has the “strong endorsement of the residents in the local communities in and around the Didipio Mine including other Indigenous Peoples in the area.” “The company looks forward to the ...
... people came to my ears, I was full of pride and hope. Indigenous peoples everywhere are fighting for their water, and enlightened governments are valuing water over foreign corporate control. Our work ...
Manila Times
Leander C. Domingo
The municipal government and the indigenous people community are strongly against the mining license renewal of Australian mining firm, OceanaGold (Philippines), Inc. ...
... nullify the directive. On July 25, the local court upheld the order.
Meanwhile, the Bugkalot indigenous peoples community in the provinces of Quirino, Aurora, Nueva Vizcaya and Nueva Ecija claiming ancestral ...
... hasn't been given the go-ahead.
In a statement it said it won’t proceed with any “physical works” or apply for permits in WKP until “comprehensive consultation and engagement” with locals, Indigenous ...
... 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 ...
... to justify this prolonged detention.
Berta Cáceres, assassinated in March 2016, was a courageous ecologist and prominent land rights activist from the indigenous Lenka community in Honduras. She was ...
... of peoples, to the detriment of biodiversity and to the detriment of the cultural diversity of indigenous nations who are the guardians of nature since time immemorial.
As member organizations of the ...
... territory, of indigenous peoples and of the environment has increased dramatically. According to the NGO Front Line Defenders, 304 activists were killed in Honduras in 2019. The number of cases has quadrupled ...
... social leaders, indigenous and farming communities who vulnerability has increased due to the record number of threats by armed groups in the midst of the COVID 19 health crisis.
"The COVID-19 pandemic ...
... is crucial to the future of all. The principle obstacle standing in their way to unfettered extraction have been local communities and Indigenous peoples unwilling to accept the destruction of their land, ...
... with indigenous communities, a requirement of the International Labour Organization’s convention 169 (ILO 169).
But while Guatemala ratified the convention in 1996, industry leaders say regulations setting ...