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21. Defending Land and Water from Mining Profiteers in the Time of Covid-19: (Regional News); ... mining corporations will not deliver a future for the Global South that ensures good food, clean air and water, healthy communities, and planetary survival. However, the health-centered struggles and collective ...; Created on 23 July 2020
22. Corporate Lawsuits Could Devastate Poor Countries Grappling with COVID-19: (FTAs & ISDS); By Manuel Perez Rocha - Foreign Policy in Focus Wealthy corporations may use trade courts to keep public health measures from cutting into their profits. The country was in freefall. Formerly middle ...; Created on 23 July 2020
23. Environmentalists commemorate the 11th anniversary of the murder of Marcelo Rivera: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... for Policy Studies, speaks about the inspiration of Marcelo Rivera in the global struggle against mining corporations and the formation of the International Allies against Mining in El Salvador. ...; Created on 15 July 2020
24. World Environment Day with nothing to celebrate: (Regional News); ... Meanwhile, the Movement of Victims Affected by Climate Change and Corporations (MOVIAC) indicates in its statement its concern about the "non-existent Environment policy" in the country. This absence is ...; Created on 06 June 2020
25. With Passage of NAFTA 2.0, Congress Boosts Fossil Fuel Polluters, Particularly in Mexico: (FTAs & ISDS); ... Agreement (USMCA), the pact has some improvements but remains a handout to large corporations. This is particularly evident in the USMCA rules related to investor rights. One of the most controversial ...; Created on 03 May 2020
26. International report finds that the Honduran government violates the rights of Tocoa's environmental defender: (Regional News); ... 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 ...; Created on 20 April 2020
27. Land Defenders Are Killed in the Philippines for Protesting Canadian Mining: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... back against “development aggression,” or corporate activities imposed on Indigenous ancestral lands without tribal consent. Many of these ventures are helmed by Canadian corporations. Claver is one ...; Created on 04 October 2019
28. In Guatemala, north american mining company sues in La Puya case: (Kappes Kassiday & Associates Guatemala ); ... transnational corporations to pass over national courts and undermine the sovereignty of nations. Courts such as ICSID are not courts of justice, but secret panels of highly paid corporate lawyers whose ...; Created on 18 September 2019
29. Marcelo's Legacy: The environmentalist who fought against metal mining in El Salvado: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... Law. But, within the new balance of power, the correlation of strength and transnational interests are aligning under a government that seems servile to the interests of corporations, and which basically ...; Created on 18 September 2019
30. The long overdue breakup: Nueva Vizcaya and Oceanagold: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... and Geosciences Bureau, Department of Environment aand Natural Resources and National Commission for Indigenous People for “bowing down to the whims and caprices of foreign corporations like Oceanagold.” ...; Created on 16 September 2019
31. Mining Grabs Up Land, Deals Blow to Agriculture in Central America: (Background and reports ); ... century. In the last few decades it has expanded with the arrival of transnational mining corporations to the area. The arrival of foreign corporations generated social conflict, as local residents ...; Created on 07 May 2019
32. Central American antimining activists gather in El Salvador to discuss joint strategies for action: (Media Releases); ... committed with the explicit support of local governments who place the legal and repressive institutions of the states at the service of multinational corporations to ensure the application of commercial ...; Created on 05 May 2019
33. Getting the shaft on mining abuses: (Background and reports ); Sakura Saunders : Now Magazine After more than a decade of campaigning for oversight of Canadian mining corporations abroad, the feds appear to be backpedaling on gains won by human rights advocates ...; Created on 05 May 2019
34. Canadian mining companies are behaving badly in the Global South—and Wall Street is profiting from it: (FTAs & ISDS); ... sustaining and bolstering investment disputes, which is tipping the scales of ISDS even further in favour of multinational corporations. In practice, TPF is a fairly straightforward process. Investors ...; Created on 05 May 2019
35. New Report Exposes Mining Companies Suing Latin American Countries Where Communities Defend Land and Environment: (FTAs & ISDS); ... Latin America Program Coordinator at MiningWatch Canada. Transnational corporations have access to the supranational arbitration system as a result of investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) clauses ...; Created on 03 May 2019
36. Criminalisation brought to new extremes in case of Aymara indigenous communities in Peru: (Regional News); ... of natural resources - mostly by multinational corporations - by limiting and violating the rights of the population. The Aymarazo The conflict known as "El Aymarazo" was a mobilization in the ...; Created on 28 August 2018
37. Rural Communities’ Struggle Against US-Owned Mine Continues in Guatemalan Supreme Court: (Regional News); ... of multinational corporations over the health, safety, and welfare of local populations,” wrote Zaunbreche. Furthermore, Alexandra Pedersen argued in her August 2015 article for Telesur that mining that ...; Created on 27 August 2018
38. The international dimensions of the fight for water in El Salvador: (Water Crisis El Salvador); ... on the contrary, the international economic system is designed to shield corporations from the responsibility of systemically violating the rights to life, health, environment, safety, work, environmental ...; Created on 02 July 2018
39. Water 2.0 - Salvadoreans take to the streets to battle renewed attempts to privatize water resources: (Water Crisis El Salvador); ... weeks after elections and month before the new legislature took over, the American Chamber of Commerce flanked by large multinational corporations called a press conference to announce private initiatives ...; Created on 24 June 2018
40. El Salvador: first anniversary of the mining ban A cause for celebration, but the new law faces dangers: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); Andrés McKinley - UK LAB On March 29th, 2017, the small country of El Salvador became the first nation in the world to exercise its sovereign right to say “no” to metallic mining after carefully analyzing ...; Created on 22 June 2018

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