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1. How Honduras became one of the most dangerous countries to defend natural resources: (Mining and Human Rights); ... prison.” Honduras became one of the most dangerous countries in the world to defend natural resources and land rights after the 2009 coup ushered in an autocratic pro-business government – which remains ...; Created on 07 October 2020
2. Corporate Lawsuits Could Devastate Poor Countries Grappling with COVID-19: (FTAs & ISDS); ... Other corporations settled for hundreds of millions more. With countries scrambling to survive the global Covid-19 pandemic, many other countries could suffer Argentina’s fate. As economies falter, these ...; Created on 23 July 2020
3. New Report Exposes Mining Companies Suing Latin American Countries Where Communities Defend Land and Environment: (FTAs & ISDS); ... with Latin American Lives and Sovereignty through Supranational Arbitration,” exposes how transnational mining companies file multi-million dollar suits against Latin American countries to challenge key ...; Created on 03 May 2019
4. “Latin American Countries exposed to law suits from transnational comporations: Manuel Pérez Rocha: (Regional News); ... undermining the sovereignty of the countries of Latin America."There is currently a strong debate about agreements that give TNCs what is left of our public services. These agreements have been negotiated ...; Created on 10 May 2018
5. The obscure legal system that lets corporations sue countries: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); Claire Provost and Matt Kennard - The Guardian Fifty years ago, an international legal system was created to protect the rights of foreign investors. Today, as companies win billions in damages, insiders ...; Created on 11 July 2015
6. Trade Deals Are Giving Corporations the Power to Intimidate Tiny Countries: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); Sandra Cuffe: New Republic Alejandro Guevara hasn’t slept. There was a death in La Maraña, and Guevara, the vice president of the community environmental association, spent the night at the wake. Still, ...; Created on 13 May 2015
7. Multiple Countries Rejecting Investor State Dispute Settlement: (FTAs & ISDS); Multiple Countries Rejecting Investor State Dispute Settlement By Janet M Eaton, Phd. April 12th, 2012 There appears to be a growing awareness that NAFTA-style foreign investor privileges and ...; Created on 10 May 2012
8. The Cerro Blanco mine and the right to consultation: (Cerro Blanco); ... suffer the worst consequences. At Cerro Blanco, the company has proposed a filtered tailings storage facility will be built in dangerous proximity to communities that would be banned in many countries ...; Created on 22 September 2022
9. Public statement of the Local Governments of Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador, members of the Lempa River Trinational Border Association, regarding the “Cerro Blanco” mining project, developed by the ...: (Cerro Blanco); ... Border Association is a Legal entity, located in the Trifinio (Tri-national) Region that is comprised by 26 municipalities from countries of El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras and it is committed to ...; Created on 12 June 2022
10. MIRIAN MIRANDA: There is a genocidal plan against the Garífuna people: (Regional News); ... of our people. These investors also have the absolute support of the justice system of our countries. Proof of this is the case of our Guapinol brothers (eight defenders of the Guapinol river, in northern ...; Created on 25 December 2021
11. Communique: Community organizations fear the return of metal mining in El Salvador: (Media Releases); ... Intergovernmental Forum on Mining, Minerals, Metals and Development (IGF), an organization of Canadian origin that promotes best practices of mining in its member countries. According to policy statements ...; Created on 16 December 2021
12. El Salvador: Metallic Mining Threatens Again: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... of over 50 countries promoting mining called the Intergovernmental Forum on Mining, Metals and Sustainable Development and based in Ottawa, Canada. Two participants in the Forum, and members of the board ...; Created on 14 December 2021
13. La Mesa releases a memoir of their collective struggle to ban mining in El Salvador: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... against metal mining in the country. After learning that metal mining in neighboring countries had caused environmental degradation, the loss of biodiversity and sources of water, and more importantly, ...; Created on 29 June 2021
14. Human Rights Advocates and Legal Experts Deliver Blueprint for New International Corporate Accountability Law in Canada: (Mining and Human Rights); ... Similar laws are in place or being developed in several countries. Canada, however, is falling behind. Instead of legally requiring companies to respect human rights and the environment, Canada encourages ...; Created on 21 May 2021
15. Why Canada is at the centre of global mining atrocities: (Mining and Human Rights); ... not only goes unchecked, but is actively fostered through economic support. According to Natural Resources Canada, in 2019, 621 Canadian mining and exploration companies operated in 96 countries abroad, ...; Created on 12 May 2021
16. A New Environmentalist Playbook An improbable victory in El Salvador offers lessons for grassroots activists worldwide: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); PROSPECT Sasha Chavkin From tropical rain forests to drinkable water, a vast share of the planet’s essential environmental resources are found in developing countries. When growth-oriented governments ...; Created on 23 April 2021
17. Swiss mining transnational Glencore in the Andes: (General mining reports ); ... transnational dedicated to the production and marketing of raw materials. It has mining operations in more than 50 countries and its revenues in 2019 exceeded $215 billion – five times more than Bolivia’s ...; Created on 22 April 2021
18. ‘Complete turnaround’: Philippines’ Duterte lifts ban on new mining permits: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... That year, the Philippines topped the list of countries with the highest number of mining-linked deaths of environmental defenders. Among the 16 fatalities that year was Datu Kaylo Bontolan, an Indigenous ...; Created on 15 April 2021
19. El Salvador’s Water Defenders and the Fight Against Toxic Mining: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... million in fees (excluding expenses) on the case—get to decide whether El Salvador’s mining law … was legal? Why should a panel of three de facto judges from other countries, using a biased set of rules, ...; Created on 11 April 2021
20. An unlikely eco-alliance in postwar El Salvador: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... than 50% of the water to the country. And for them, as for water defenders, in many other countries, water is life. Water is more precious than gold. So a group of water defenders from all over the country ...; Created on 22 March 2021

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