... license of the Fenix mine from the Guatemalan Niquel Company, a subsidiary of the Swiss firm Solway Investment Group, was ratified on June 19. Further decisions are suspended until a prior consultation ...
... Nickel Company) for breach of the Free, Prior, and Informed Consultation of Indigenous Peoples as stipulated by ILO Convention 169 [1]. In the middle of last year, the Constitutional Court of Guatemala ...
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In 2016, the peaceful resistance turned to the courts. They achieved the mine´s suspension for lack of prior consultation with Indigenous people. Shortly later, an investigation was opened against the ...
... established in the 1990s, by intensifying investment in extractive industries by national elites and transnational corporations. These industries have established their operations without adequate consultation ...
... justice groups doing similar work. The mine in Guatemala remains closed, pending a new consultation process.
Pan American Silver, one of the world’s largest mining companies, operates eight mines in ...
... to carry a consultation with local indigenous populations of San José del Golfo and San Pedro Ayampuc, before the implementation of the project.
Since 2011, women, children and men have engaged in ...
... The company’s application for FTAA renewal has been swiftly endorsed to the Office of President Rodrigo Duterte without proper consultation with the provincial and local LGU and indigenous people of Kasibu. ...
... Policy Studies in Washington D.C. The Guatemalan Supreme Court of Justice suspended the mine in 2016 for lack of prior consultation with Indigenous communities in the municipalities of San Pedro Ayampuc ...
... response to their request for a dialogue.
July 15, 2015 -- A constitutional court rules against the mine and directs the company to hold community consultations with those who are impacted by the mine. ...
... representatives in Guatemala are currently under criminal investigation in Guatemala for illegally operating the mine, ignoring the initial court order suspending operations for lack of consultation. In ...
... shared by Peru and Bolivia); the lack of consultation of local communities; questions around the legality of the project; a lack of transparency; and the company’s negotiating in bad faith with the communities. ...
... of the Nevada-based company’s mining licence, pending consultation with Indigenous Xinca residents of the surrounding area.
Tahoe Resources subsidiary Minera San Rafael had argued that Xinca people were ...
... of irregularities in the acquisition of the land titles by the company, the communities began to petition the authorities, requesting in particular that their right to prior consultation be respected. ...
... of La Puya, and determined that the mining company and the municipality violated the rights of the communities to a prior consultation, and ordered the mining firm to suspend the construction of infrastructure. ...
... told IPS while moving about in the kitchen set up in an improvised camp, which IPS visited on Apr. 29.
The lack of prior consultations with the communities where such projects are installed is a recurrent ...
... Meeting of the Central American Alliance Against Mining -ACAFREMIN-, met in Guatemala City on April 26 and 27 of this year, in order to analyze "the state of the right to prior, free and informed consultation ...
... An email response by staff member of Presidential Coordination Office states in a typical bureaucratic fashion that “we are doing internal consultations to inform you about the status of the situation ...
... ten companies from the United States, Canada, and Australia, without consultation with the residents. These developments faced immediate popular resistance.
Two of the most affected areas were the departments ...
... through the Ministry of the Environment and Natural Resources, MARN. The bill was welcomed by social organizations who had participated widely in a public consultation process led by the legislative Commission ...
... that the university began, two years ago, to develop a proposal for a bill prohibiting metallic mining. After a lengthy process of consultations with civil society organizations and other key actors, the ...