... The Constitutional Court suspended the project in July 2019, when the Union of Artisanal Fishermen of El Estor filed a complaint with the Constitutional Court arguing that the exploitation permit granted ...
... granted legal protection to the fishermen and ordered the suspension of mining activities. The owners of CGN-PRONICO, a Russian-owned company based for tax reasons in the Swiss city of Zur, ignored the ...
... as implementing all the plans required by the Law on Civil Protection, Prevention, and Mitigation of Disasters. And the Ministry of the Environment and Natural Resources (MARN) must stop granting environmental ...
... the Environmental Impact Studies presented by the company and used to approve the mining permits claim. According to environmental organizations the permits granted by the Guatemalan Ministry of the Environment ...
... Honduras when they challenge the legality of corporate mega projects and the power of extractive industries.
Specifically, the report finds that in the case of the licences granted to Inversiones los ...
... solution on the illegality of the mining concessions granted in Tocoa.
“It is a lack of respect what has occurred in this municipality today, we do not accept it, we reject and condemn that Mel Zelaya, ...
... providing concessions to carry out work in natural conservation areas.
Since Nayib Bukele took over the presidency in El Salvador, the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources (MARN) has granted ...
... 2011, Aymara residents, led by former leader Aduviri, rejected mining concessions granted to the Santa Anan Sylver mining project owned by Vancourver based Bear Creek Mining. The Puno Court of Appeals ...
... reads a statement from IPS.
This year the award was granted to the Municipal Committee for the Defense of Commons of Tocoa, a coalition of community groups, NOGs, faith and social organizations who since ...
... with local insurgency threats. Over the years, they have been accused of various human rights abuses and at one point were even disbanded, only to be revived again. In 2018, Duterte granted them financial ...
... investment.
Rodolfo Calles, stated that environmental permitting practices should be studied comprehensively, in order not to grant permits to projects that are harmful to the environment.
“Not every ...
... Peace and Development in the Philippines (APDP), Migrante Australia, Philippines Australia Solidarity Action (PASA); International Allies against Mining, Central American Alliance against Mining in El ...
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“Where the mining company is operating was land that peasants leased to plant corn and beans, our staple crops. But since the company came in, there is no land left to farm,” said Lesbia Villagrán, who ...
... latter assured that they only granted the licenses, and that they respected private sales agreements or transfer of rights from one company to another.
Madre Selva´s activist said that the company would ...
... one of the largest primary silver producers in the world. Conflict, violent confrontations and protests, however, have plagued the project.
“We do it for the children,” Máximo Abrego, a 79-year-old grandfather ...
... participation in water management.
The bishops' conference preferred that public oversight of water resources be maintained.
"If a law is approved that grants a private entity the right to decide over ...
... appropriate procedures (…) whenever consideration is being given to legislative or administrative measures which may affect them directly,” such as when a national or municipal state institution grants ...
... have, to either grant or deny their consent to extractive projects in their territories.
During the meeting we analyzed the legal frameworks and conventional obligations on the right to prior consultation ...
... the northern part of the country, with thirty-three areas of mining interests, a highway, and twelve hydroelectric dams. It started building the highway and granted twenty-eight exploration licenses to ...
... tribunal rejected OceanaGold’s claim for US$250 Million against El Salvador for not having granted it a permit to mine. The International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) instead ordered ...