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1. Apples: (Contacts / A); Apples, Scientific Name: Malus domestica, Apples are a versatile fruit, used for eating, cooking, and preserving. There are more that 7500 different kinds of apples grown around the world.; Created on
2. Application of Convention NO. 169 by Domestic and International Courts in Latin America: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); International Labour Organization The Convention No. 169 is a central element of the contemporary international normative framework for the promotion and protection of the rights of indigenous and tribal ...; Created on 23 April 2016
3. PRESS RELESE: Environmental Organizations Dennounce Privatization of Water in El Salvador: (Media Releases); ... more injustice, such as the collection of the taxes from community water systems, and the use of water supply systems that don’t consider access for the population's domestic consumption a priority. In ...; Created on 23 December 2021
4. Communique: Community organizations fear the return of metal mining in El Salvador: (Media Releases); ... ratification of the human right to water in the Constitution and expedite the approval of a general water law that guarantees, as a priority, water for domestic consumption, which is economically accessible ...; Created on 16 December 2021
5. Scientists, fishers say new mining deals to cause more damage than good: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... to the country’s total was 0.95% or an annual average contribution of $39.7 billion from 2002 to 2020. The average annual share of the mining and quarrying sector in the gross domestic product has been ...; Created on 24 May 2021
6. Why Canada is at the centre of global mining atrocities: (Mining and Human Rights); ... with mining assets valued at $177.8 billion. Lang said Canada has a long history of resource extraction both domestically and abroad. She describes why Canada is a hotbed for corporate human rights abusers. ...; Created on 12 May 2021
7. ‘Complete turnaround’: Philippines’ Duterte lifts ban on new mining permits: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... anticipated the domestic industry would rebound after neighboring Indonesia, the world’s biggest nickel producer, imposed an export ban on the metal in January 2020. The Philippines, the No. 2 producer, ...; Created on 15 April 2021
8. What Salvadoran Activists Can Teach Us About Building Coalitions: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... Salvadoran civil war, there were few influential families linked to the sector. Since domestic elites in tourism and agriculture depended heavily on water, many supported the defenders or at least refrained ...; Created on 05 April 2021
9. NEW BOOK: The water defenders - how ordinary people saved a country from corporate greed: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... you envision who truly has power if we unleash our imaginations and act together.” —Ai-jen Poo, executive director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance, author of The Age of Dignity, and MacArthur ...; Created on 14 January 2021
10. Disputes against governments under investment treaties: a growing trend in the mining industry in 2020: (ISDS); ... domestic legal system may not provide an adequate remedy. For example, an investor may not wish to settle disputes before a host state's domestic courts for reasons of (i) fear of bias; or (ii) unfamiliarity ...; Created on 06 January 2021
11. U.S.-Backed ANDA Appointment Threatens the Salvadoran People’s Water Resources: (Water Crisis El Salvador); ... government influence exists including within domestic decisions of El Salvador’s executive [branch].” For a long time, control of water resources has been under ongoing threat in El Salvador, and with ...; Created on 01 December 2020
12. Corporate Lawsuits Could Devastate Poor Countries Grappling with COVID-19: (FTAs & ISDS); ... its acronym, ISDS—foreign investors can bypass domestic courts and bring claims directly to supranational arbitration tribunals. A wealthy nation like the United States could conceivably face such claims ...; Created on 23 July 2020
13. Anglo American responses to AGM queries raise more questions than they answer: (Mining and Human Rights); ... project has in mind the use of “surplus water from the Tambo basin in rainy weather.” The company argues that these waters have no agricultural or domestic use and that each year more than 500 million ...; Created on 22 July 2020
14. With Passage of NAFTA 2.0, Congress Boosts Fossil Fuel Polluters, Particularly in Mexico: (FTAs & ISDS); ... have. It also requires investors to first exhaust domestic remedies before bringing a claim to an international tribunal. However, Annex 14-E preserves NAFTA investor protections for disputes related ...; Created on 03 May 2020
15. Land Defenders Are Killed in the Philippines for Protesting Canadian Mining: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... remote regions domestically. Several Canadian mining companies are also publicly traded on the Vancouver and Toronto stock exchanges. Even the Canadian Pension Plan, a publicly funded retirement plan ...; Created on 04 October 2019
16. Oceanagold’s wealth is misery for Kasibu farmers: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... Statistics Authority (PSA) last year showed that mining and quarrying only contributed less than two percent to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of the country compared to the seven percent made by the ...; Created on 16 September 2019
17. DHUMA Receives Letelier Moffitt International Human Rights Award: (Regional News); ... prize and they shared the podium with The New Orleans Workers’ Center for Racial Justice, the domestic prize winners. Over 300 people attended the ceremony and the trip to the US was an opportunity ...; Created on 16 September 2019
18. New Report Exposes Mining Companies Suing Latin American Countries Where Communities Defend Land and Environment: (FTAs & ISDS); ... in Free Trade Agreements and other investment protection pacts, laws, or contracts. These allow companies to bypass domestic courts and sue governments before private tribunals of highly paid corporate ...; Created on 03 May 2019
19. The international dimensions of the fight for water in El Salvador: (Water Crisis El Salvador); ... General Water Law, a bill that recognizes water as a human right and a common good that must be managed publicly with a focus on sustainability, priority and affordability for domestic use, as well as ...; Created on 02 July 2018
20. Water 2.0 - Salvadoreans take to the streets to battle renewed attempts to privatize water resources: (Water Crisis El Salvador); ... good that should be publicly managed with focus on sustainability, accessible domestic use and regulation of commercial and industrial use. The debate has not always been civil, in 2007, 17 leaders ...; Created on 24 June 2018

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