The tiny country of El Salvador is caught up in a David vs. Goliath battle as it struggles to defend the human right to water and the public health of its citizens. Metallic mining projects would pose ...
Backgrounder
CAFTA Investor Rights Undermining Democracy and the Environment: Commerce Group Case
The Commerce Group Corporation, a mining firm registered and based in Wisconsin, is the second multinational ...
A Brief History of Mining in El Salvador
I. Precedents.
The Mining Legacy
Metallic mining was carried out in the northeastern part of El Salvador for almost 100 years (1880-1970) and ...
... starts with a historical background of mining companies in El Salvador, the resistance against a series of mining projects that began operating unannounced in communities in the early 2000s, the resistance ...
... to protect the rights of Indigenous communities, and the commission retracted it in 2011.
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... very good background and history of the Cerro Blanco mine can be found on the Environmental Justice Atlas website, here, EJAtlas – Cerro Blanco. There is information in both English and Spanish and, though ...
CNCA
Today the Federal Court of Canada hears a case alleging that the Canadian government is improperly withholding information about its diplomatic interventions on behalf of a Canadian company accused ...
... Canada, catherine@miningwatch.ca Patricia Lisson, International Coalition for Human Rights in the Philippines (ICHRP-Canada), ichrpcanada@gmail.com For background information, see:
Background brief ...
... Honduras. The sign in the background says "Guapinol is resisting". Photo: Giulia Vuillermoz Early in 2018, the crystalline Guapinol River that runs through Carlos Escaleras Mejia National Park, in northern ...
... among the deputies to really verify the background of the state of Siege measure.
Companies versus resistance The Chamber of Agriculture, the Palm Growers Guild, and the Chamber of Industry supported ...