... the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI). We were among the first countries to meet the requirements of the 2013 EITI Standard. However, not much has happened in terms of progress of the ...
Karla Rodas - Vanguardia
El Salvador is among the ten most vulnerable countries in the world due to its geographical position and environmental conditions such as deforestation, limited access to water ...
... In that regard, we must find collective solutions to defend human rights" Pedro Cabezas told GatoEncerrado.
Environmental defenders believe that the governments of their countries benefit mining projects, ...
... the deadliest country for land and environmental defenders in 2018, when 30 people were killed. Last year, over half of the 212 reported killings worldwide occurred in just two countries: Colombia, with ...
... more and more frequently by transnational extractivist companies to demand millionaire payments for the loss of investments from countries, as documented in the Extractivism Casino report, presented last ...
... before the International Center for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), under the protection of the DR-CAFTA free trade agreement, signed between the Central American countries and the US.
The ...
... an issue, there more than 40 mining concessions in the borders with Honduras and Guatemala and no step has been taken to dialogue with other countries to make a cross border water treaty to ensure the ...
... and the Philippines— have studied OceanaGold’s operations in the Philippines and other countries. Among us, we have visited the Didipio mine on fact-finding missions four times since 2013. We have studied ...
... the Salvadoran example, “there are cases of movements that are demanding mining-free territories” in neighboring countries, Nicaraguan researcher Angélica Alfaro, one of the chief authors of the new study, ...
... system to pursue their commercial interests abroad—too often to challenge responsible government policies taken in the public interest in developing countries.
A common narrative runs through many of ...