... the Salvadoran Congress approved, in March 2017, a law that prohibited metal mining, the only regulation of its kind in the world. With this law, no company can extract gold, silver, copper, or other metallic ...
... 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 ...
... and struggle
When Equinox acquired the Los Filos mine this past March, it also assumed responsibility for the social-cooperation agreement between the community and the mine’s former owner, Leagold Mining. ...
... in Panama, Nucor executives joined the board of directors of the Panamanian company NE Holdings Subsidiary in March 2015, and later joined a second Panamanian company, NE Holdings, in August 2016. The ...
... in March 2016 after suffering years of threats and harassment linked to her opposition to an internationally funded dam.
More recently, the Guapinol case and the forced disappearance of land defenders ...
... 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 ...
... a family visit since March. Once a week, their loved ones have special permission to send them a home-cooked meal plus extras like green avocados and tortillas that will help them get through the week. ...
... about 15 kilometers from downtown San Salvador, has not had any running water in her house since the pandemic started back in March 2020. In fact, she hasn't had any tap water consistently in her home for ...
... dated March 3, maintains the arbitrariness in the case and clearly points to politically motivated judicial persecution of local leaders and community members who have been at the forefront of environmental protection ...
... Gold merged in March 2020 with Leagold Mining, making Los Filos one of the six mines it exploits on the American continent. Silver and gold are extracted in the mine, and there is an expansion plan. Thus, ...
... incriminating evidence against them."
Along the same lines, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, declared on March 25, 2020: "Now, more than ever, governments should ...
... activities in various forms have become a vector for Covid-19 spread. The biggest mining fair in the world is one of these. Held every year in Toronto in early March, this event is put on by the the Prospectors ...
... in a CALAS appeal against the supreme court decision to reinstate the mine’s license.
March 8: Constitutional court calls for further anthropological studies to reach a ruling on the suspension of the ...
... year campaign, metallic mining was banned in El Salvador in March 2017, but the struggle of Salvadorean anti mining activists is far from over. Vidalina Morales, president of the Santa Marta Association ...
... against a gold mining project that threatens to pollute or dry up already scarce water supplies in an area just north of Guatemala City.
Day after day, since March 2012, community members have rotated ...
... constrained by lockdowns, arbitrary arrests, and other heavy-handed measures supposedly meant for containing the outbreak of the infectious disease.
On March 19, 2020, indigenous people leader Gloria ...
... the spread of cross border contamination, since the Law Prohibiting Metal Mining in El Salvador (approved on March 2017) is only applicable on the national territory.
The researcher and environmentalist ...
... make this initiative a partisan proposal.
On March 22, 2012, with the celebration of World Water Day, at the initiative of the then President Mauricio Funes through the Minister of Environment and Natural ...
... Tábora. The legal team appealed the judge's decision and requested a new hearing to review the measure. In March, he filed a habeas corpus action with the president of the Supreme Court of Justice in order ...
John C. Cannon - Mongabay
The Environmental Justice Atlas released new maps March 2 alleging that Pan American Silver operates mines that don’t have the consent of local communities and that pollute ...