NACLA
Beth Geglia and Andrea Nuila
It’s almost like an insult that this is happening to us now, after so much sacrifice to develop the community to the point it’s at today,” Venessa Cardenas explains, ...
... the implementation of CSR performance standards and guidelines.” In addition, the office offered dispute resolution support with an emphasis on “dialogue.”
What can be done? Asuncion put forward clear ...
... forward with a highly contentious gold mine in one of the most biodiverse regions on Earth. According to Rosana Miranda of the São Paulo–based Amazon Watch, the company’s use of heavy metals and cyanide ...
... than a year since the company’s request for FTAA renewal was forwarded to the Office of the President.
In December last year, the government finally re-started the negotiations on OceanaGold’s FTAA renewal, ...
... government. “So one idea is to demand that Switzerland be more closely linked to this treaty in order to push it forwards…to pressure the government for a negotiating mandate,” said the activist.
The ...
... the FTAA renewal has the “strong endorsement of the residents in the local communities in and around the Didipio Mine including other Indigenous Peoples in the area.” “The company looks forward to the ...
... this organic agriculture for families and at the community level to move the communities forward in terms of nutrition and to improve the local economy; because all communities can help each other, sell ...
... relation to a concession agreement for the improvement of a pipeline in Peru. As to this date, the case has not moved forward as the Tribunal is not constituted yet. Carlos Matheus opines that, once all ...
... the frog, but “amphibians are very sensitive to even a very slight change in their environmental factors, so that was thankfully declined,” Macassey-Pickard said.
Adams said applications brought forward ...
... of justice in the Guapinol case. Whereas complaints filed by affected communities are not investigated, those filed by the company, meant to thwart opposition, are moving forward.
“The accused are people ...
... also taken advantage of the pandemic to try to push forward with unwanted activities, including in other parts of Ecuador, Argentina, Mexico, the Philippines, and Northern Ireland. This poses a risk to ...
... Nahualá and Santa Catarina Ixtahuacán, Sololá, are still waiting to make their first statement, Santos said. Government decree 13-2020 must be approved by Congress; however, the government has not forwarded ...
... a lawsuit brought forwards by Pacific Rim, and have El Salvador set up an example around the work as the first country to completely ban metal mining activities in its territory.
After a 12 twelve ...
... 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 ...
... known as Corani), remain active in Puno, waiting for the political winds to change to try to push forward their projects, all the while benefiting from the criminalisation of affected communities.
In ...
... until the final ruling was released in October 2016.
The Final Showdown
Flash forward seven years, after four community leaders were brutally killed in northern El Salvador, and after countless marches, ...
... Rim’s singular strategy at the state level to try to reform El Salvador’s mining law to loosen regulatory requirements and enable its project to go forward.
In 2005, as the panel’s documentation makes ...
... forward in the Congress, and the latest proposal is likely to continue to face an uphill battle in the conservative-dominated assembly.
In 2013, a national coalition against metals mining presented a ...
... of the Environment Commission to initiate the discussion and approval of the law, while calling for it to be done in the shortest possible time.
“In the laws that are put forward, we must take into account ...
... involved to take forward the process of the referendum. "The awareness of all communities in the municipality of Arcatao was strategic and that we worked together with organizations of the National Roundtable ...