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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. NEW BOOK: The water defenders - how ordinary people saved a country from corporate greed: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... from multinational mining company Pac Rim appeared in their home province of Cabañas. This ignited a people’s fight against corporate power that would last for over a decade. In The Water Defenders: How ...; Created on 14 January 2021
3. Canadian corporate greed on display in Mexico mining dispute: (Regional News); Jen Moore | Canadian Dimension As gold prices soar to record levels, the Los Filos gold mine in Mexico, one of the country’s largest, has sat idle since early September after its owner, Vancouver-based ...; Created on 28 November 2020
4. Corporate Lawsuits Could Devastate Poor Countries Grappling with COVID-19: (FTAs & ISDS); ... scrambled to lessen the pain of a deep economic crisis on average citizens, the last thing they needed was a barrage of corporate lawsuits. But that’s what they got. CMS Gas, for example, sued Argentina ...; Created on 23 July 2020
5. REPORT: Golden opportunities for profits, corporate plunder for OceanaGold Corporation: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... of their work. Broader movements such as the National Roundtable Against Metallic Mining in El Salvador (also known as La Mesa) are also active to protect water rights and to counter corporate mining in ...; Created on 24 August 2018
6. Setting the Record Straight: Debunking Ten Common Defenses of Controversial Investor-State Corporate Privileges: (ISDS); Public Citizen In order to counter the increased critiques of the investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) system, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative has declared that many of the claims are ...; Created on 30 April 2016
7. Myths and Omissions: Unpacking Obama Administration Defenses of Investor-State Corporate Privileges: (General mining reports ); Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch Investor-state dispute settlement system empowers foreign corporations to bypass domestic courts, challenge government’s public interest policies before extrajudicial ...; Created on 30 April 2016
8. PRESS RELEASE: Mining, Corporate Social Responsibility, and Conflict: OceanaGold and the El Dorado Foundation in El Salvador: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... at the local level is deceitful, disrespectful and dangerous. Mining, Corporate Social Responsiblity, and Conflict: OceanaGold and the El Dorado Foundation in El Salvador, published by the Institute ...; Created on 23 March 2016
9. Corporate bias at the World Bank Group: (FTAs & ISDS); The World Bank Group’s International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes Robin Broad - Bretton Woods Project This briefing focuses on the main venue for settlement of legal cases brought by ...; Created on 29 September 2015
10. Amid TPP Fight, El Salvador Mining Case Shows Danger of Corporate Tribunals: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... of corporate-friendly provisions buried in trade deals like the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a secret tribunal is on the brink of issuing a ruling any day that that could force the Central American country ...; Created on 18 May 2015
11. El Salvador’s struggle against corporate impunity: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... the growing international debate on the balance of corporate rights and responsibilities and the need for new legal international frameworks to address corporate impunity. 15 September marked the anniversary ...; Created on 20 October 2014
12. A corporate warning to El Salvador: Give up your gold or pay $315 million: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); As Salvadorans debate a mining ban due to pollution concerns, a large mining company has filed suit against the government. by Jamie Stark* First published in: http://www.globalpost.com/dispatches/globalpost-blogs/rights/el-salvador-gold-mining-lawsuit ...; Created on 06 August 2014
13. The Global Fight Against Corporate Rule: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); Activists are challenging rules that grant corporations the right to sue governments. By Robin Broad and John Cavanah Published in http://www.thenation.com/article/177930/global-fight-against-corporate-rule?page=full# ...; Created on 13 February 2014
14. Fixing Free Trade Agreements: Putting People and the Planet over Corporate Profit: (FTAs & ISDS); Fixing Free Trade Agreements: Putting People and the Planet over Corporate Profit Today's trade rules are not designed first and foremost to protect workers, the environment or public health. They ...; Created on 05 March 2012
15. 250+ Groups Call On El Salvador to Drop Charges Against Water Defenders: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... Dreams. Cavanagh, who co-authored with Robin Broad The Water Defenders: How Ordinary People Saved a Country from Corporate Greed, stressed that Bukele "is desperate for revenues" because he "has so mismanaged ...; Created on 20 January 2023
16. Community and environmental concerns not “pertinent” to Pan American Silver’s business: (Mining and Human Rights); ... of the meeting was dedicated to self-congratulatory remarks from the out-going chair of the board, Ross Beaty, about Pan American’s glowing reputation as a corporate citizen. Prior to question period, ...; Created on 17 May 2021
17. Why Canada is at the centre of global mining atrocities: (Mining and Human Rights); ... But Ivanhoe Mines is not the only Canadian company operating in the Philippines. While Claver said corporate mining ownership has been difficult for civil society to track due to a “global practice of ...; Created on 12 May 2021
18. Imai v. Canada: Access-to-information lawsuit concerning Canada’s intervention in human rights case against Goldcorp in Guatemala: (Mining and Human Rights); ... mine in Guatemala. The suit was brought by York University law professor and co-founder of the Justice & Corporate Accountability Project (JCAP), Shin Imai, who first sought the information through access-to-information ...; Created on 11 May 2021
19. Canada’s Mining Industry Is Spreading Havoc Around the World — With Justin Trudeau’s Support: (Mining and Human Rights); ... abroad. And, as you might expect, many of those projects involve shady corporate practices and violations of human rights. There have been an astounding number of conflicts at Canadian-run mines. Pick ...; Created on 07 May 2021
20. Environmental activists are being killed in Honduras over their opposition to mining: (Regional News); ... industries and causing conflicts with communities. The corporate-friendly General Mining Law lifted a seven-year moratorium on new mining projects — it was developed with technical assistance and funding ...; Created on 06 May 2021

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