... shareholders submitted questions regarding the social and environmental impacts of the company’s business on communities in Mexico, Peru, Guatemala and Argentina, they were ignored and their questions ...
... Mexican telecom magnate Carlos Slim, and Canadian businessman Frank Giustra, who has made a career out of major investments worldwide in mining, from gold and diamonds to uranium, among other industries. ...
... but to favor big business.
The statement published by the Ministry of Energy and Mines states that the consultation, which the rejection of mining projects, "lacks a legal basis" and therefore "it lacks ...
... needs, as it has been done to date.
The Law does not solve the injustice that is generated in the coastal marine territory of the country. The illegal exploitation carried out by the sugar agribusiness ...
... administration is reducing nature to a commodity—a thing to be consumed, a means to a capitalist end. Reflective of a typically patriarchal, exploitative, and extractive mode of doing business, its mining ...
... them to voluntarily take measures to do so.
“All around the world, people are being harmed by the business practices of Canadian companies and their subsidiaries, subcontractors and suppliers,” said ...
... companies have seen a warm welcome from the Philippine government. “By government policy, the Philippines is wide open to foreign companies, especially the extractive business of mining. The regime of ...
... ignored everything they said. In March of this year, Liberal MP John McKay reportedly confronted Mary Ng, minister of Small Business, Export Promotion and International Trade, over the government’s failure ...
... Pinares is owned by Lenir Pérez, a businessman previously accused of human rights violations, and Ana Facussé, daughter of the late palm oil magnate, Miguel Facussé. Even though the mine hasn’t yet exploited ...
... Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes, a staunchly pro-business tribunal that adjudicates disputes between governments and foreign investors. Pacific Rim demanded that El Salvador either allow it ...
Terra Justa
The mining giant's activities in Latin America and how they demonstrate the need for a binding instrument on Business and Human Rights.
In June 2020, a statement signed by more than 200 ...
... since 2007, when exploration for additional gold deposits began. The expansion could produce $256 million in gold and silver annually, one federal environmental impact report says.
“They’re good business ...
... CEO of Brazilian real estate, retail, and agribusiness conglomerate Grupo Solpanamby, and Tom Murcott, who played a lead role in attracting investors and residents to the Songdo IDB in the Incheon smart ...
... Toronto Stock Exchange. In short, mining is a huge business for Canada, and it’s driven by exploitation and abuse.
The Santa Ana project, as Bear Creek’s operation was called, was intended to be an 11-year-long ...
... it brazenly violates the ancestral domain rights of our aboriginal constituents who are the Bugkalots-llongots but also on account of OceanaGold’s adamant refusal to settle its local business taxes due ...
... include:
Fair and equitable treatment: The fair and equitable treatment standard aims to ensure that the conduct of business by a foreign investor is not hampered by the host state without good reason. ...
... Los Pinares company property owned by couple Lenir Pérez and Ana Facussé, son-in-law and daughter, respectively, of the late businessman Miguel Facussé Barjum, were initially charged with the crimes of ...
... Honduran businessman Lenir Pérez and his wife Ana Isabel Facussé, owners of Inversiones Los Pinares -- a company that is waging battle against the residents of a town called Guapinol, who oppose the company' ...
... that came with the series of typhoons leading to ‘Ulysses.’ The government agencies that have played a role in maintaining the business as usual operations of these mines must likewise be probed and held ...
... prison.”
Honduras became one of the most dangerous countries in the world to defend natural resources and land rights after the 2009 coup ushered in an autocratic pro-business government – which remains ...