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1. Application of Convention NO. 169 by Domestic and International Courts in Latin America
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
International Labour Organization The Convention No. 169 is a central element of the contemporary international normative framework for the promotion and protection of the rights of indigenous and tribal ...
Created on 23 April 2016
2. Indigenous and Tribal Peoples’ Rights in Practice, a guide to ILO Convention No. 169
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
International Labour Organization The International Labour Organization adopted the Indigenous and Tribal People’s Convention (ILO Convention No. 169) in 1989, which has been ratified by 20 countries. ...
Created on 23 April 2016
3. URGENT COMMUNIQUE: To the people of Asuncion Mita, the national and international community
(Cerro Blanco)
... article 64 of the Municipal Code and not on the 169 convention of the ILO where the ministry has jurisdiction and advantage against indigenous communities.   The people of Asunción Mita identify themselves ...
Created on 23 September 2022
4. PBI-Guatemala accompanies the Peaceful Resistance of La Puya as court ruling gives mining company access to the site
(La Puya International Support Letter)
... Convention 169. Even after the eviction in 2014 and the court ruling in 2016, members of La Puya continued a 24-hour presence in opposition to the mine. What has just happened? Prensa Comunitaria ...
Created on 22 May 2021
5. Canada’s Mining Industry Is Spreading Havoc Around the World — With Justin Trudeau’s Support
(Mining and Human Rights)
... protect Canadian mining investments. A March 2017 news release promoting Canada’s mining sector at an industry convention offers one example: The Canada-Mongolia Foreign Investment Promotion and Protection ...
Created on 07 May 2021
6. Environmental activists are being killed in Honduras over their opposition to mining
(Regional News)
... for Human Rights, Oxfam and the Canadian Peace Brigades. Under the Geneva Convention rules, the international community should condemn the state’s violence against environmental defenders and accept ...
Created on 06 May 2021
7. The Status of Investor-State Arbitration in Latin America in 2021
(ISDS)
JDSUPRA With a total of 54 cases filed, 2020 was a record year for cases filed under the ICSID Convention, and with a total of 72 treaty-based cases, an important year in general for Investor-State Arbitration. ...
Created on 21 January 2021
8. From dreams of gold to organic agriculture
(Pacific Rim/OceanaGold)
... to agriculture. He mentions that at that time he learned to plow the land with oxen but now he uses conventional agriculture. "You don't work like that anymore, you work with poison and that's where poisoned ...
Created on 05 January 2021
9. 2020 in Review: Latin America and Investment Arbitration
(ISDS)
... actually took place, which in turn will depend on the standard of proof used by the Arbitral Tribunal. The ICSID Convention and the Arbitration Rules are silent on this matter, on which there is no consensus ...
Created on 19 December 2020
10. We Are in Danger Daily: Honduran Afro-Indigenous Garífuna Demand Return of Kidnapped Land Defenders
(Mining and Human Rights)
... relations coordinator at the Black Fraternal Organization of Honduras. AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org. We are breaking with convention, and this is The Quarantine Report. I’m Amy ...
Created on 17 August 2020
11. Defending Land and Water from Mining Profiteers in the Time of Covid-19
(Regional News)
... organizations worldwide. The Institute for Policy Studies contributed to a snapshot report, Voices from the Ground, which provides examples to back up the statement. “The Coronavirus Convention” Mining ...
Created on 23 July 2020
12. Timeline: Guatemala mine suspensions
(Regional News)
... with indigenous communities, a requirement of the International Labour Organization’s convention 169 (ILO 169). But while Guatemala ratified the convention in 1996, industry leaders say regulations setting ...
Created on 23 July 2020
13. Social organizations reject militarization in five municipalities of Guatemala
(Regional News)
... based on the standards of Convention 169 is carried out. ILO. In addition, the Constitutional Court pointed out irregularities in the extension of the license, since the Environmental Impact Study presented ...
Created on 20 July 2020
14. In El Estor: a chain of breaches and contempt by CGN-PRONICO puts the lives of human rights defenders at risk
(Regional News)
... Nickel Company) for breach of the Free, Prior, and Informed Consultation of Indigenous Peoples as stipulated by ILO Convention 169 [1]. In the middle of last year, the Constitutional Court of Guatemala ...
Created on 12 June 2020
15. Governor Aduviri must remain in jail
(Regional News)
... 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, ...
Created on 26 December 2019
16. National Alliance Against the Privatization of Water “Water is not for sale, we care for it and defend it
(Water Crisis El Salvador)
... of the Legislature and the Executive branches to international conventions and treaties regarding the human right to water and to confront climate change. Of the business, industrial and agro industrial ...
Created on 26 September 2019
17. Guatemalan court upholds Tahoe mine suspension
(Regional News)
... (MEM) to carry out consultation immediately in compliance with the International Labor Organization’s Convention 169 concerning Indigenous and Tribal Peoples in Independent Countries. “At this time, ...
Created on 16 September 2018
18. Criminalisation brought to new extremes in case of Aymara indigenous communities in Peru
(Regional News)
... and consulted about development projects (particularly ILO Convention 169) are recognised both in the Peruvian legal system and Constitution as well as in international treaties to which Peru is a signatory. ...
Created on 28 August 2018
19. Rural Communities’ Struggle Against US-Owned Mine Continues in Guatemalan Supreme Court
(Regional News)
... communities in accords with the Guatemalan constitution and international Labor Organization’s Convention No. 169. In the declaration, the judge called for “The suspension of all activities of the ...
Created on 27 August 2018
20. Central Americans Demand to be Consulted About Mining Projects
(Regional News)
... improvised camp. Credit: Edgardo Ayala / IPS One of the rules under which the organisation operates is ILO Convention 169 on Indigenous and Tribal Peoples, in force since September 1991, which has been ...
Created on 09 May 2018
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