... His talk focused on the advances of corporate rights, which through legal instruments such as free trade and investments agreements are strengthening the power of multinational corporations – TNCs, and ...
NEWS RELEASE : January 17, 2018
(Ottawa) Today, Canada’s International Trade Minister announced the creation of a Canadian Ombudsperson for Responsible Enterprise to investigate human rights complaints ...
... Rivera, Dora Alicia Sorto (who was eight months pregnant) and Ramiro Rivera, committed between June and December 2009, relatives and members of La Maraña Environmental Association, ADES and the National ...
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VIDEO: On the occasion of the third session of the UN Human Rights Council open-ended intergovernmental working group on transnational corporations (TNCs) and other business ...
Social movements say: no to the privatization of water in El Salvador
We want to express our deep rejection of the "Integral Water Law" proposal presented in mid-June by the National Association of Private ...
Edgardo Ayala : IPS News
Environmental organizations are not dropping the guard in their fight against the operations of transnational mining corporation OceanaGold, which has just lost litigation against ...
To the people of El Salvador,
To the communities of cabañas,
To the organizations of the National Roundtable Against Metal Mining,
The organisations and individuals* who are part of the International ...
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 ...
INTERNATIONAL TRADE UNION CONFEDERATION
Brussels, 15 April 2015 (ITUC OnLine): The ITUC has described a $300m claim against El Salvador by an Australian/Canadian mining conglomerate as an example ...
... OceanaGold, withdraw its law suit.
The panel of arbitrators, part of the World Bank's International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes-ICSID, is considering a decision merely on trade merits, ...
Media coverage of the International Month of Action
SEPT: 5th: Sidney and Melbourne, Australia MUA: MUA Calls for Australian Resources Company to Drop Law Suit Trade union officials are calling on ...
... a contentious and long-running dispute between an international mining company and the government of El Salvador. An Australian mining company, OceanaGold, is suing the Salvadoran government for refusing ...
September 22, 2014, San Jose las Flores -Chalatenango
We, the International Observer Delegation, comprising of 15 representatives from North, Central, South America and New Zealand, acknowledge the ...
CALL FOR INTERNATIONAL SUPPORT
The International Allies Against Mining in El Salvador call on our friends and allies to support the National Roundtable against Metallic Mining and mining-affected communities ...
... mining in El Salvador. Since 2005, organizations such as CRIPDES-CCR, CORDES, members of the National Roundtable Against Metallic Mining, municipal authorities and faith groups have fiercely opposed attempts ...
... in protest the mega mining projects" stated Vidalina Morales commemorating the international fight against transnational mining which causes misery and environmental pollution.
The theme of year's International ...
... World Bank, 90 percent of the surface water is heavily contaminated and 20 percent of its rural population lacks safe drinking water. Pacific Rim is using the World Bank’s International Centre for Settlement ...
By: Patrick Weiniger
Patrick Weiniger
First published in: http://redflag.org.au/article/mining-multinationals-exploit-central-america
El Salvadoran anti-mining campaigner Vidalina Morales recently ...
Translated from: http://tinyurl.com/mhvvolz
By: Elder Gomez, CoLatino News El Salvador faces an "international mafia" seeking control of the country's natural resources, through "frivolous" legal international ...