... Ordinary People Saved A Country from Corporate Greed, Robin Broad and John Cavanagh tell the harrowing, inspiring saga of El Salvador’s fight – and historic victory – to save their water, and their communities, ...
... 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 ...
... also revealed how many governments were taking extraordinary steps to suppress protests in mining contexts, as well as how companies and governments were taking advantage of the crisis to establish new ...
... the descriptor “ordinary people” in the subtitle and throughout the book strikes an odd note. These are people who risked, and some lost, their lives to defend their homes and communities and in so doing ...
... that came to be known as La Mesa.
This essay is adapted from Robin Broad and John Cavanagh’s The Water Defenders: How Ordinary People Saved a Country From Corporate Greed.
During those years, Marcelo ...
... first-hand about abuses by the same mining company, OceanaGold, in his province.
Against extraordinary opposition, these communities convinced their government in 2017 to become the first in the world ...
... Marco Werman spoke with attorney Luis Parada, who led El Salvador’s defense team in a mining lawsuit at the World Bank, and Robin Broad, a co-author of the book, "The Water Defenders: How Ordinary People ...
... by what it called a “particular importance” given to the term “invested by investors,” the Swiss Federal Tribunal held that Article 1(2) is an ordinary asset-based definition of investment – known for ...
... interests of the wealthy at the expense of ordinary people trying to protect their community’s future.
Solidarity and visibility from the international community have been among the strongest defences ...
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Mining companies are ignoring the real threats of the pandemic and continuing to operate, using any means available
Governments around the world are taking extraordinary measures to shut down legitimate ...
... to the Guatemalan Constitution, the Convention has primacy over ordinary laws such as the Mining Law, since it is part of the constitutional block that governs Guatemala's internal law.
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... extraordinary appeal within the corresponding legal time. One of the arguments presented in the appeal stated that Aduviri should be judged as a community member according to ILO Convention 169. However, ...
... both organizations’ blossoming successes over the years. The event, itself, reflected their extraordinary growth and community support as attendees came from municipalities far beyond Santa Marta, including ...
... on civil groups have helped bring ordinary citizens into the struggle. Meanwhile, they’ve enjoyed the strong backing of the scientific community, which has concluded that fracking is one of the most polluting, ...
... has kept a moratorium on metal mining which, although it has yet to be enshrined in law, has proved useful in safeguarding the interests of ordinary citizens.
Secondly it shows how different forms of ...
... treaty, 30 volumes and 2,500 pages, was ratified by 49 votes, 16 days after being released by the Ministry of Economy and was approved at an ordinary session of the Legislative Assembly that lasted 19 ...
... boast larger revenues than most countries' economies. And, if that weren't enough, corporations have gained extraordinary powers through trade and investment agreements to sue governments, often to override ...
... of the top 10 corporations boast larger revenues than most countries' economies.
And, if that weren't enough, corporations have gained extraordinary powers through trade and investment agreements to sue ...
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Over the past several decades, multinational corporate Goliaths have helped to write and rewrite hundreds of rules skewing tax, trade, investment and other policies in their favor. The extraordinary ...
... a call to the workers and managers of OceanaGold, and to the millions of ordinary Australians whose superannuation funds are invested in this company. We’ve heard that there have been environmentalists ...