by Jen Moore - inequality.org
Global South Communities affected by mining face multiple pandemics - health, economic, violence, militarization and corporate capture
Over the years, the mining industry ...
... over coronavirus-related policies. Imagine, for example, if the Trump administration were to force the South Korean-owned Hyundai factory in Alabama to make ventilators instead of cars. Hyundai could have ...
... of southern Peru, scheduled to begin operations in 2022. As members of London Mining Network, and together with colleagues from DHUMA (Human Rights and the Environment) in Puno, we helped to submit a series ...
... and large companies such as the Guatemalan Nickel Company, and the producer of African palm Naturaceites. The communities in the southern area of El Estor are surrounded by 32 square kilometers of African ...
... South.
Indeed, developed countries are increasingly withdrawing from or rejecting ISDS in agreements amongst themselves. For example, the European Union and Australia and New Zealand have reportedly ...
... against Ecuador for $480 million over the suspension of the Rio Blanco mining project. Local communities achieved the suspension of this underground gold and silver mine in the highlands of south-central ...
... Central and South America that are beset with allegations of environmental disruption and human rights violations, according to information released March 2 by the Environmental Justice Atlas.
The ...
... ago, near the southern border of Mexico with Guatemala in Chicomuselo, Chiapas, Mariano Abarca was shot dead in broad daylight outside of his family restaurant. It was November 27, 2009 and Mariano had ...
... Philippines' worst ever environmental disasters took place in March 1996 at a Canadian mining site in Marinduque, an island in the southwest. Toxic leftover waste leaked out of the Marcopper Mining site, ...
... same month, Ocean Explorations criminally sued South Californian journalist, Carlos Ibarra, and members of the Puerto Chale Fishing Cooperative for dennouncing that company was digging exploration wells ...
DHUMA -Human Rights and Environment- from Puno, Peru has been recognised for their tireless work in defence of indigenous rights in southern Peru with prestigious international human rights prize.
DEMOCRACY ...
... on Mining (IPCM), Yes to Life, No to Mining (YLNM) Southeast Asia, Defend Patrimony Alliance, and International League of People’s Struggle (ILPS) Commission 19; Spirit of Eureka, Australian Action for ...
... of Central and South America.
“If multinational corporations are able to work together globally on the basis of profit, we (affected communities) should be able to work together on the basis of solidarity” ...
... and South American governments facing 29% of known claims.
You can find the full report and brief executive summary at https://ips-dc.org/report-extraction-casino/
These findings complement a study ...
... of Asunción Mita, in the eastern department of Jutiapa, Guatemala.
The Cerro Blanco mine is located in the vicinity of Asunción Mita, a city of about 50,000 inhabitants, located 160 km southeast of the ...
... number of transnational mining companies that have been launching malicious lawsuits against countries, especially in the Global South, in order to extract sizeable monetary awards. Even though they have ...
... Southern NSW Branch
AFRICA
Anywaa Survival Organisation-ASO (ETHIOPIA)
Collectif pour la Défense des Terres Malgaches - TANY (MADAGASCAR)
Fédération Nationale du Secteur Agricole (MAROC)
Ogiek ...
... now President of the Natural Resources Defense Front of Southern Puno. In his contribution he also rejected the payment of a multi-million dollar compensation that Bear Creek demands from Peru for the ...
... July 2017 in response to the lawsuit against the MEM.
Located a 75-kilometre drive southeast of Guatemala City in San Rafael las Flores, in the Santa Rosa department, the mine, which started up in ...
... spokesperson convicted for his role in protests that took place in 2011 in the southern region of Puno.
The case has been going on for more than seven years but now in the final stretch it is being closely ...