... Escaleras National Park...
The legal team ensures that pre-trial jail in this case is unnecessary, disproportionate and illegal. What’s more, the new criminal code, which came into force in June 2020 ...
... strongly denounced the illegal and harmful activities of the company and the irregularities in the issuence of mining licenses within the limits of the Carlos Escaleras National Reserve Park.
The preliminary ...
... in the Montaña Botaderos Carlos Escaleras National Park.
To date, the Public Prosecutor's Office has not investigated the serious damage suffered by the young man while they have forged ahead with the ...
... from Honduras in this scale? Why the Garífuna community is coming in caravans to United States? Because the government of Honduras has taken away everything that they have and all opportunities for the ...
... organization. She and her organization have been vocal in resisting the attempts of five large-scale mining companies to enter and operate in their ancestral lands and forests in the Andap Valley Complex ...
... Pinares / Ecotek company.
There were serious irregularities in the issuance of mining licences within the limits of the Carlos Escaleras National Park.
There was a lack of prior consultation with ...
... scale mining in the Philippines. This study was supported by the Natural Resources Governance Institute (NRGI)
The Didipio Mine was one of the large-scale mines we examined. Using publicly available ...
... Carlos Escaleras National Park. The reform, now called decree 252-2013, reduces the size of the protected area in order to give access to mining exploitation.
“Following the legislative change there has ...
... (Desama), is one of those at the forefront of the barricade. His very household experienced the negative impacts of large-scale mining.
Before Oceanagold came in, Pumihic had enough harvest to feed ...
... every cropping. He could always catch dalag and eels in a nearby river. Every morning, fresh air coming down from the mountain greeted him.
From time to time, he would join his neighbors in small-scale ...
... of Nueva Vizcaya.
In its unity statement, Save Nueva Vizcaya declared that “our most urgent mission is to oppose destructive large-scale mining projects such as the 12,864-hectare Didipio copper and ...
... alongside national and international organizations held simultaneous rallies in Australia, El Salvador, Canada, and the Philippines calling for the non-renewal of the large-scale gold and copper mining ...
... sustaining and bolstering investment disputes, which is tipping the scales of ISDS even further in favour of multinational corporations.
In practice, TPF is a fairly straightforward process. Investors ...
... scarce local water sources, of small scale farmers who lose their harvests with increased frequency to prolonged drought and of women and children who spend much of their day in search of this vital liquid. ...
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 ...
... of minerals beneath its soil. Yet, the 41 large-scale industrial mines in operation in 2016 contributed less than 1% of the country's gross domestic product, with negligible job benefits after the construction ...
... support and based upon experiences from neighbouring countries, that introducing industrial scale mining in the country would jeopardize vital water supplies with disastrous consequences for local populations. ...
... all open-pit mining in 2010. Mining is also outlawed in high-altitude wetlands vitally important to water supplies in Colombia. And at least half a dozen provinces in Argentina have passed bans on industrial-scale ...
... but then a number of people visited large-scale mines just across the border in Honduras and returned home with horrifying tales of polluted water, health ailments, and rising conflict in the communities ...
... the industry watchdog group.
With the exception of a transition period for small-scale artisanal gold miners, the law provides for an immediate, definitive, and permanent ban on all metals mining, including ...