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1. Human Rights Advocates and Legal Experts Deliver Blueprint for New International Corporate Accountability Law in Canada: (Mining and Human Rights); CNCA Today the Canadian Network on Corporate Accountability (CNCA) releases draft model legislation that provides lawmakers with a blueprint for writing into Canadian law the corporate duty to respect ...; Created on 21 May 2021
2. Experts Will Assign Responsibility in Mining Case: (FTAs & ISDS); Experts Will Assign Responsibility in Mining Case Studies have shown that there is cyanide, iron and other heavy metals in the water October 9, 2012-German Rivas La Prensa Grafica The original ...; Created on 24 October 2012
3. Salvadoran environmental defenders detained for decades-old crimes: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... to widespread arbitrary detentions and other abuses, according to United Nations experts. Original Source https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jan/14/el-salvador-environmental-defenders-arrested-mining-ban ...; Created on 04 April 2023
4. El Salvador: Metallic Mining Threatens Again: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... and access. According to experts, rivers are drying up, the water levels of the nation's most strategic aquifers are falling more than one meter per year, more than 90% of lakes and rivers are polluted ...; Created on 14 December 2021
5. Honduras: Supreme Court must correct distorted ruling & free arbitrarily detained Guapinol defenders: (Mining and Human Rights); ... widely as possible". The Working Group(WG) is a specialized body of the United Nations, composed of five independent experts from different regions of the world, authorized by the UN Human Rights ...; Created on 11 May 2021
6. ‘Complete turnaround’: Philippines’ Duterte lifts ban on new mining permits: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... in Semirara Island, central Philippines, March 2005. Image by TJCERAME – Wikimapia via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0) While Duterte’s policies on mining have caused instability in the sector, experts ...; Created on 15 April 2021
7. Gold mine fined $100,000. Toxic air pollution found at big mine near tiny town: (OceanaGold); ... unsafe to eat more than small amounts. The mercury pollution likely came from coal-burning power plants. The pollution fell into the water and was slowly taken in by fish, experts have said. Records ...; Created on 12 February 2021
8. How Honduras became one of the most dangerous countries to defend natural resources: (Mining and Human Rights); ... consultation inside a protected national park in a process mired by irregularities, according to international experts. In response to criminal complaints filed by the company Inversiones Los Pinares, ...; Created on 07 October 2020
9. Corporate Lawsuits Could Devastate Poor Countries Grappling with COVID-19: (FTAs & ISDS); ... during the outbreak, the government is being threatened with arbitration by businesses in the European Union and Canada that want access to its energy markets. Several other legal experts have warned that ...; Created on 23 July 2020
10. Land Defenders Are Killed in the Philippines for Protesting Canadian Mining: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... experts say some of the extrajudicial killings and forced displacement are byproducts of Canadian mining in the Philippines. In most cases, the Canadian government offers little recourse for those harmed. ...; Created on 04 October 2019
11. Save Nueva Vizcaya Movement Launched: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... gold mine of Australian-Canadian transnational mining corporation Oceanagold.” Save Nueva Vizcaya was convened by various leaders and experts, including representations of Diocese of Bayombong Bishop ...; Created on 16 September 2019
12. THE STRUGGLE FOR GOOD WATER GOVERNANCE CONTINUES IN EL SALVADOR: (Water Crisis El Salvador); ... experts. The main cause of the current crisis is poor water management (pollution and over-exploitation) due to the lack of policies (General Water Law), practices and programs that ensure good governance. ...; Created on 27 August 2018
13. Rural Communities’ Struggle Against US-Owned Mine Continues in Guatemalan Supreme Court: (Regional News); ... industry and is considered to be one of the leading experts on the use of cyanide in the mining industry. “And you have no way of knowing what is in the concentrate, and neither does the Guatemalan government ...; Created on 27 August 2018
14. El Salvador: first anniversary of the mining ban A cause for celebration, but the new law faces dangers: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... metallic mining in El Salvador had been presented in 2006 and 2013, but had been largely ignored by legislators. In 2016, experts on water and mining from the Jesuit-run Central American University, José ...; Created on 22 June 2018
15. Central Americans Demand to be Consulted About Mining Projects: (Regional News); ... warned Rodolfo Calles, of the Association for the Development of El Salvador (CRIPDES). Convention 169 refers only to indigenous peoples, although the experts said in the meeting that national laws that ...; Created on 09 May 2018
16. El Salvador – When The Seeds Of Resistance Bloom: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... powerful. Working with international civil society experts, such as the Center for International Environmental Law, the Institute for Policy Studies, Mining Watch, and Oxfam, as well as academics from ...; Created on 23 June 2017
17. A wake-up call for Trump's trade agend: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... disastrous environmental consequences. These biased investment rules don't result just in frivolous lawsuits. They also exert what experts call a "regulatory chill,"scaring governments to refrain from passing ...; Created on 03 March 2017
18. Across the Pacific: building a global struggle against the free-trade agenda of OceanaGold: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... of the International People’s Conference on Mining, a global gathering in 2015 of activists, advocates, experts, and grassroots leaders hailing from 29 different countries that have united in opposing ...; Created on 26 September 2016
19. NEW BOOK: Rethinking Bilateral Trade Agreements: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... 19 distinct analyses by leading experts in the field, covering both national and international perspectives. Some contributions are written by current or former government officials, others are written ...; Created on 11 May 2016
20. Commerce Group Mining Corporation required to pay for environmental clean up of the San Sebastian mine.: (Commerce Group); ... written by an international multidisciplinary team of experts in human rights and international law, hydrology and economics, concludes that the San Sebastian mine has instituted a negative legacy of mining ...; Created on 02 March 2016

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