Global Voices
One of the most essential aspects of COVID-19 prevention is regularly washing your hands; however, hundreds of thousands of Salvadorans are facing COVID-19 without reliable access to water. ...
(Ottawa) Nearly 150,000 people have already signed an online petition directed at the Australian-Canadian firm OceanaGold urging it to drop its suit against El Salvador.
Secret hearings will begin on ...
... in Guatemala, nor did it ever obtain a construction permit to build its mine in the first place.
Such injustice is precisely what the Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) framework enshrined in thousands ...
... livelihoods will be affected, too: The clearing of thousands of hectares of forests for mining will certainly put the affected provinces at risk of flash floods and landslides, and will impact communities—indigenous ...
... them permission to operate in spite of overwhelming local opposition.
Over the past two decades, thousands of articles, reports, documentaries, and books have detailed Canadian mining abuses abroad. ...
... taxes and fees, royalty fees, and increase in export value, as well as employment opportunities for thousands of Filipinos," the chamber said.
In the executive order, Duterte said additional rules and ...
... they write, “On that balmy evening in 2009, who could have guessed that Miguel’s questions [about the ICSID lawsuit] and Vidalina’s call to action would pull us two—and thousands of others around the world—into ...
... the American Rescue Plan, Congress’s next big relief bill will focus on building a green infrastructure — and it can create tens of thousands of good, dignified union jobs in the process.
Movements that ...
... assistance to, an alleged drug trafficker who delivered thousands of kilos of cocaine throughout the United States.
In response to the news—which adds to a long list of cases by U.S. prosecutors in ...
... Aymarazo movement is just one of many examples of resistance to Canadian mining projects in Peru in recent years. In 2018, thousands of people in the district of Huayllay in central Peru protested for ...
... according to the alert, “together with the state, through military and judicial harassment, they are forging ahead at all costs with the iron ore project that threatens the water sources for tens of thousands ...
... over this widely unpopular policy fast-tracking amid the utter failure to effectively respond to the pandemic.
Instead of pouring thousands of health workers into the streets, we are seeing police and ...
... and Developers Association of Canada and draws tens of thousands of people from around the world. This year, the event went ahead despite criticisms only a week before the World Health Organization characterized ...
... ignored that below the earth layers are the aquifers that communicate harmoniously and form complex ecosystems. The communities affirm that a natural channel that has been formed for thousands of years ...
... developed agrarian reform laws, giving collective land to thousands of farmers organized in farming cooperatives. In 1992 the Law for Land Modernization gave way to the formation of large private monopolies ...
... because the country is made up of thousands of small islands and has a dense population. Waste from the mines typically contaminates the ocean and other waterways, which are heavily relied on for fishing, ...
... win millions of dollars thanks to a unilateral system, in which only companies can sue and those who rule on cases are their close allies.
Legalized dispossession
CAFTA-DR, like the thousands of ...
... effect pressures the government to restart the mine, or otherwise pay the company hundreds of millions of dollars in lost potential profits.
CAFTA-DR, like thousands of other international investment ...
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The scientific evidence is supported by the experience of thousands of inhabitants of urban slums who spend months without access to water, of poor communities in the rural sector who depend on increasingly ...
... on Corporate Accountability, and – with the support of tens and hundreds of thousands of Canadians over the years – has continuously fought for a such an oversight body, as well as for legal accountability ...