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21. PRESS RELEASE: The municipal consultation on Cerro Blanco mine is valid and legitimate: (Cerro Blanco); ... government promote regulations that guarantee mining-free borders with a shared basin approach and give priority to the negotiation of a Treaty of transboundary waters. We alert the international community ...; Created on 21 September 2022
22. PRESS RELESE: Environmental Organizations Dennounce Privatization of Water in El Salvador: (Media Releases); ... (headed by the Regalado and Wright Families) who freely use all the surface and groundwater of the coastal territories, often times without permits and paying a pittance for its use. This Law, however, ...; Created on 23 December 2021
23. In Guatemala, Harris Should Address U.S. Policies That Put Corporations Over People: (Mining and Human Rights); ... such as the Central America–Dominican Republic Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA-DR), which have been imposed on Guatemalans. This framework favors the development of large-scale mining and energy projects that ...; Created on 07 June 2021
24. First Pre-Consultation Meeting with the Xinka People on the Escobal Mine: (Mining and Human Rights); ... the lack of prior, free and informed consultation. As a result, Arana insisted on respect for the principle of good faith and respect for Xinka rights as Indigenous peoples “We hope that the good will ...; Created on 26 May 2021
25. Community and environmental concerns not “pertinent” to Pan American Silver’s business: (Mining and Human Rights); ... denouncing the violence. Shareholders asked Winckler if Pan American Silver will respect the Xinka people’s right to a “free” consultation and immediately cease interference in local communities. They ...; Created on 17 May 2021
26. Why Canada is at the centre of global mining atrocities: (Mining and Human Rights); ... harm in the industry. Yet, the reality is the industry is firmly rooted in colonial practices that violate the right to free, prior, and informed consent of Indigenous peoples, a principle recognized by ...; Created on 12 May 2021
27. Pan American Silver Pressured to Shut Down Community Interference in Guatemala: (Mining and Human Rights); ... the company to respect the Indigenous Xinka people’s right to be freely consulted without violence and threats, and to immediately cease interference in their communities. Indigenous leaders such as Secretary-Treasurer ...; Created on 12 May 2021
28. Environmental activists are being killed in Honduras over their opposition to mining: (Regional News); ... the committee members were nominated for the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought awarded annually by the European Union. Yet, in Honduras, these same activists are victims of defamation campaigns, ...; Created on 06 May 2021
29. 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
30. Swiss mining transnational Glencore in the Andes: (General mining reports ); ... on its operations. It is a setup that has been classed as one-sided in serious research, due to how it frees Glencore from its labour and environmental responsibilities, which are outsourced to the mining ...; Created on 22 April 2021
31. Australian-Canadian mining company OceanaGold misleads public on Filipino mine: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... environment defenders who were exercising their right to freedom of assembly to object to the continued operations in the Didipio mine, adding that the police used “unnecessary and disproportionate force”. ...; Created on 22 April 2021
32. WATER IS LIFE. CAN WE PROTECT IT?: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... to ban all metals mining to save their rivers. Today the United States faces a similar reckoning as El Salvador. The Texas freeze that left millions without water exposed the desperate need to rein ...; Created on 28 March 2021
33. Urgent Action: Immediately release Guapinol defenders in high risk: (Mining and Human Rights); Guapinol Resiste On February 9, 2021, the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention sent a strong and clear message to Honduras: Immediately release the eight imprisoned Guapinol defenders. In its resolution ...; Created on 14 March 2021
34. The trial for Guapinol water defender Jeremías Martínez begins today in Tegucigalpa, Honduras: (Mining and Human Rights); PBI Brent Patterson On the morning of February 22, Libertad para los defensores de Guapinol (Freedom for the defenders of Guapinol) tweeted: “Minutes from the start of the trial of Jeremías Martínez, ...; Created on 22 February 2021
35. A Private Government in Honduras Moves Forward: (Mining and Human Rights); ... sudden onslaught of these new jurisdictions, Economic Development and Employment Zones (ZEDEs), which international promoters refer to as “charter cities,” “startup cities,” or “free private cities.” U.S. ...; Created on 15 February 2021
36. The Status of Investor-State Arbitration in Latin America in 2021: (ISDS); ... still will be protected under the Investment Chapter of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) until July 1, 2023. (See previous Holland & Knight alert, "Mexico Keeps Investment Disputes Mechanism ...; Created on 21 January 2021
37. From dreams of gold to organic agriculture: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... Orgánic production promotes chemical-free products for the consumer. Lourdes Molina, senior economist and specialist in ecological economics at the Central American Institute for Fiscal Studies (Instituto ...; Created on 05 January 2021
38. 2020 in Review: Latin America and Investment Arbitration: (ISDS); ... strengthening its commitment to ISDS. The United States – Mexico – Canada Agreement (USMCA) finally entered into force in July 2020. The USMCA succeeds the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and ...; Created on 19 December 2020
39. EL SALVADOR - Water recognized as a public good and human right, the satisfaction of the Church: (Water Crisis El Salvador); ... moral integrity, freedom, security, work; to these would be added water and its sanitation facilities. In addition, a further amendment was approved, to Article 69, to establish that water is a public ...; Created on 30 November 2020
40. Mining Injustice Through International Arbitration: (ISDS); ... Republic Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA-DR). In Guatemala, the U.S. mining firm Kappes, Cassiday & Associates (KCA) relied on repression by private and state security forces to overcome years of local resistance ...; Created on 21 October 2020

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