... superpowers and the oppressive governments and systems continue to intensify widening inequality. Exacerbated neglect and discrimination to their access to health and basic services has been a grave threat ...
... impossible. Their governments also don’t hold large mining players to account, she said.
When Ardern came into power in 2016, she announced plans to end all mining on conservation land. But so far, she ...
... Nueva Vizcaya. This is an illegal act by the mining company, as it’s mining contract has expired more than a year ago, and it does not have any permit to operate from the local governments. Our ...
... tactics to forcibly open mining operations in places where communities have resisted them.
First, they resort to repression. Then, if that fails, they sue governments in international tribunals — which ...
... was never an echo of concern from past governments. Water has not yet ended up serving the entire Salvadoran population.”
What is the source of the Salvadoran water problem? Access to water is not legally ...
... and observers including a group of MEPs. The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights has stated that “governments should release every person detained without sufficient legal basis, including ...
... lawyers say this constitutes expropriation and is open to ISDS claims.
The future
More than 600 social organizations have called on governments to block the use of ISDS in relation to COVID-19 measures, ...
... the disturbing trend of mining companies using ISDS to sue governments when their investments face opposition from local communities. Arbitration suits like this are made possible by International Investment ...
... a regional pattern of political persecution, where the governments of Central America´s CA4 region (Honduras, Guatemala, Nicaragua and El Salvador) are utilizing confinement measures, in the context of ...
... governments pressured by the lobby of the mining industry seek to silence the protests and use the current crisis to promote changes in national regulations that favor mining activities, at the cost of ...
... is intensifying the human rights crises in Honduras and Colombia," said EarthRights executive director Ka Hsaw Wa. "These governments are wisely protecting the public with measures of social isolation. ...
... water and ways of life.
Since the Covid-19 pandemic began, however, governments in country after country have declared mining an essential activity or responded to industry pressure to do so after a ...
... is a field of law made lucrative by the proliferation of some 3,000 international investment treaties and trade agreements that give corporations the right to sue governments for hundreds of millions, ...
... Quellaveco project, is located. Moreover, many governments seek to emerge from the current economic crisis by expanding and deepening mining extractivism. In the case of Peru, mining has been a priority ...
... department of Alta Verapaz. The government's justification for decreeing the state of Siege is that the presence of organized crime groups carrying out illicit activities such as drug trafficking, illegal ...
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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 ...
... aspects of the original NAFTA was that it allowed private corporations to sue governments in international tribunals, demanding compensation for alleged violations of a wide range of investor “rights.” ...
... Latin America and around the world.
Indigenous people and affected communities face many reprisals for their resistance, including a mounting number of arbitration suits against their governments from ...
... Gloria, there are at least 51 political prisoners previously working in environmental defense remaining in prison. This is despite the appeal of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights on world governments ...
... the local oligarchy that has controlled post-coup governments are at the roots of the current conflict in Bajo Aguan.
According to the study, successive governments have deepened neoliberal policies, ...