Sandra Cuffe : Waging NonViolence
Communities and organizations in northern El Salvador continue to organize referendums in an effort to keep their territories free of mining. Established by the country’s ...
... arrests send thousands into despair Nayib Bukele, the authoritarian populist president who swept to power in 2019, has repeatedly blocked attempts to seek justice for civil war victims – the vast majority ...
... acts were committed by people who are linked to the mining company and who, among other things, tried to block the work of the international observers and induce a vote in favor of the mining company in the ...
... a figure that remained stable compared to the previous year, but the rail blockades in February and again throughout May limited supply to the maritime market. Cerrejón exported 13.6 million tons in 2020, ...
... Puya, just north of Guatemala City – set up a 24-hour a day blockade at the entrance of the Vancouver-based Radius Gold Inc. El Tambor mine.
By August 2012, the Canadian company sold El Tambor to US-based ...
... resources by extractive industries. They submitted five requests for public consultations and held demonstrations in front of city hall. They also erected a “Camp in Defence of Water and Life” to block ...
... Chamber of Mines of the Philippines said the removal of the "policy roadblock" would encourage local and foreign investment.
Mining projects "will provide additional government revenues in the form of ...
... not only to block Pacific Rim’s mine but to impose a nationwide ban on metals mining. Even as they grieved, they set aside their historical enmity with rightist parties that were linked to their own community’s ...
... dispersals of a peaceful and authorized blockade of the mine, even though it has had no permit to operate since June of 2019.”
Even as the Philippines’ human rights situation has steadily deteriorated, ...
... them, had become muddied.
By August 1, 2018, the community established an encampment that blocked the construction of the access road.
Then on October 27, 2018, more than 1,500 police officers and ...
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These cases are a stark reflection of the Canadian state’s methods here at home when faced with Indigenous people defending their land rights and the environment. The Wet’suwet’en blockades were met ...
... when poorly or hastily implemented, can affect the investments of mining investors. Environmental concerns have also led to instances of activist, local government or community "blockades" at sites. This ...
... to make the first eras (blocks of land separated with living barriers) and we started selling and we liked it”, said Juan.
Juan explains that they were interested in organic agricultural production but ...
... to pressure the company for greater benefits.
On September 4, the day after the encampment was set up, the company released a communiqué referring to it as an “illegal road blockade.” Such statements ...
... lawyers say this constitutes expropriation and is open to ISDS claims.
The future
More than 600 social organizations have called on governments to block the use of ISDS in relation to COVID-19 measures, ...
... consulted in the granting of its mining license.
June 19: Protesters in the town of Casillas block the main road linking Guatemala City to the Escobal mine.
July 5: The supreme court issues a provisional ...
... has faced protests by a group of dismissed people. This type of demonstrations, for example, will now be prohibited. Blocks organized from said protests prevented the Guatemalan Nickel Company from entering ...
... to the Guatemalan Constitution, the Convention has primacy over ordinary laws such as the Mining Law, since it is part of the constitutional block that governs Guatemala's internal law.
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... hours north of Lima, has been blockading this project given their concerns over potential contamination of their water sources and impacts on their livelihoods as successful peach farmers. Earlier talks ...
... a clash between a crowd of protesters who blocked the road to the mine and company security guards. According to Edy Tábora, one of the lawyers for the imprisoned activists, during the confrontation, a ...