Fixing Free Trade Agreements:
Putting People and the Planet over Corporate Profit
Today's trade rules are not designed first and foremost to protect workers, the environment or public health. They ...
... to the statement, the Cerro Blanco mine "has caused contamination in the Ostúa-Guija-Lempa basin, putting at risk" the population of the three countries, and also in the so-called Trifinio region "it has ...
... to the statement, the Cerro Blanco mine "has caused contamination in the Ostúa-Guija-Lempa basin, putting at risk" the population of the three countries, and also in the so-called Trifinio region "it has ...
... things change.
It is necessary to connect the extractivist industries with all that is happening (with the climate); it must be connected to a model that is not working, that is putting humanity at risk ...
... over information, putting its effectiveness into question.
By the spring of 2019, all fourteen of the union and NGO representatives advising on CORE’s work resigned, complaining that the government had ...
... who have opposed the mine have been killed, putting its owner, Inversiones Los Pinares, at the centre of a deadly environmental conflict in the mineral-rich Bajo Aguán region. Local communities are concerned ...
... to acknowledge their responsibility for these impacts, in order to seek redress.
The communiqué also warns of the parent companies’ announcements regarding putting their shares up for sale. “An assessment ...
... weight around with damaging suits even as companies disrespect people and the law, affected communities are putting their lives on the line to protect their water and health from mining’s negative impacts ...
... homes almost always involve people putting their bodies on the line. People need to mobilize to stand guard over a mine site fence, to keep watch over a forest at risk of being cut down, or to demonstrate ...
... shortages and contaminate water supplies with arsenic and heavy metals, putting people, plants, and animals at risk.
Speaking to a crowd of all ages that gathered to celebrate La Puya´s anniversary on ...
... the administration of President Rodrigo Duterte and its state security forces are putting in danger the public health of communities by allowing environmentally destructive activities like mining. Suppressing ...
... up traditional farming and forest land, while monopolising water resources that local communities, especially indigenous ones, depend on, putting their food security at risk.
The study “Strategies for ...
... privatization, a growing portion of Salvadoran civil society is concerned that putting water regulation under the decision-making power of private interests would be a de facto privatization. In contrast, ...
... by companies to install projects in the eight communities putting up resistance in that region, which are predominantly Mayan, said the native of Zona Reina, municipality of Uspatán, in the department ...
... were assassinated as early as 2009. And it helped that international allies, in addition to the pressure of their protests, garnered enormous international press attention to the fight.
Putting this in ...
... mining cases against El Salvador should also be a wake up call to the Philippine government of the dangers of investment rules that give corporations the power to sue governments, thereby putting corporate ...
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... the international investment regime.
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“This is practically an urban country. We’re talking about putting a mine in the middle of a city,” exclaimed Fr. Jose Maria Tojeira ...
... stated that “[…] we affirm that, by putting human life in danger, even though there might be economic benefits, precious metal mining should not be allowed in El Salvador. There are no material benefits ...
... Felícita Echevarría, Esperanza Velasco, Darwin Serrano, Gerardo Abrego León were also killed. And most recently in June 2011, Juan Francisco Duran Ayala was found dead after putting up posters against ...