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Despite this worrisome scenario, senior representatives of the National Association of Private Enterprise (ANEP), in a recent hearing with the Committee on Environment and Climate Change of the Legislative ...
Andrés McKinley - UK LAB
On March 29th, 2017, the small country of El Salvador became the first nation in the world to exercise its sovereign right to say “no” to metallic mining after carefully analyzing ...
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These are not statistics but people whose names need to be heard by the people making decisions in their boardrooms of Collins Street.
Congratulations to El Salvador for their victory against this ...
... mining companies, Pacific Rim and the Commerce Group, sued the government of El Salvador for $400 million in unrealized profits. The cases were heard by the World Bank’s International Center for Settlement ...
... in the Philippines, before a parliamentary committee where they pleaded for relief from the abuses they were suffering as the result of the operations of Canadian mining company TVI Pacific. That hearing ...
... a huge step towards protecting its environment for present and future generations when its legislature passed a law outlawing all metals mining. It was a momentous vote – a vote heard round the world. ...
Rufo Valencia - Radio Canada International
Manuel Perez Rocha interviewed by Radio Canada International. Click here to hear the interview.
One year ago, an international coalition of civil society organizations, ...
... deadly. Several anti-mining activists were murdered in the state of Cabañas, where the company planned to mine.
OceanaGold’s case was heard by an international tribunal overseen by the World Bank. In ...
... also force governments to put corporate interests over the public good, we can make even clearer the injustices at the heart of the system.
The second is to continue to make local campaigns emblematic. ...
... heard from a delegation from the Philippines, home to OceanaGold’s gold and copper Dipidio mine, located some 167 miles north of Manila in the provinces of Nueva Vizcaya and Quirino. For years, the same ...