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21. One year on and Honduran Environmental Defenders still in jail without trial: (Mining and Human Rights); ... group of community members handed themselves in to clarify their legal position with respect to the case in February 2019. All charges were quickly dropped against them. A further eight of the accused ...; Created on 01 September 2020
22. New Report: Mining Injustice Through International Arbitration: Countering Kappes, Cassiday & Associates’ Claims over a Gold-mining Project in Guatemala: (Regional News); ... is scary to think what further harm might be brought to communities from more protection of this sort,” Ellen Moore, International Mining Campaign Manager, Earthworks. KCA’s lawsuit is emblematic of ...; Created on 24 August 2020
23. The Duterte era: A state of nature under attack: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... which legal luminaries have described as ‘worse than martial law’, threatens to further inflame an already atrocious human rights situation faced by Filipino environmental defenders. Likewise, they have ...; Created on 25 July 2020
24. Defending Land and Water from Mining Profiteers in the Time of Covid-19: (Regional News); ... face were already high, however, and are only escalating further as the mining industry is being repositioned as a so-called essential industry and a vehicle for economic stimulus and recovery. For-profit ...; Created on 23 July 2020
25. Timeline: Guatemala mine suspensions: (Regional News); ... in a CALAS appeal against the supreme court decision to reinstate the mine’s license. March 8: Constitutional court calls for further anthropological studies to reach a ruling on the suspension of the ...; Created on 23 July 2020
26. Anglo American responses to AGM queries raise more questions than they answer: (Mining and Human Rights); ... the vulnerability of the population to show themselves as saviors, distributing food and creating divisions within populations. Furthermore, people cannot mobilize as a result of restrictive measures and ...; Created on 22 July 2020
27. Social organizations reject militarization in five municipalities of Guatemala: (Regional News); ... license of the Fenix mine from the Guatemalan Niquel Company, a subsidiary of the Swiss firm Solway Investment Group, was ratified on June 19. Further decisions are suspended until a prior consultation ...; Created on 20 July 2020
28. In El Estor: a chain of breaches and contempt by CGN-PRONICO puts the lives of human rights defenders at risk: (Regional News); ... this employer abuse, a worker died last month inside the mine facilities. To worsen even further the already difficult situation, amid the confinement measures imposed by the Giammattei government, the ...; Created on 12 June 2020
29. With Passage of NAFTA 2.0, Congress Boosts Fossil Fuel Polluters, Particularly in Mexico: (FTAs & ISDS); ... a threat to their land, health, environment, self-determination and ways of life. These suits represent a further assault. For the global mining companies, international arbitration is merely another opportunity ...; Created on 03 May 2020
30. Guatemalan Water Protectors Persist, Despite Mining Company Threats: (Regional News); ... arbitration “there are really no hard and fast laws” and “misrepresentations of fact and gross mis-citations of authorities are rampant and, when discovered, usually go unpunished.” It is further worrisome ...; Created on 03 May 2020
31. Ostúa River contaminated with lead and arsenic from Cerro Blanco mine: (Cerro Blanco); ... the Ombudsman for Human Rights showed interest. For its part, the Foreign Ministry of El Salvador granted a meeting in late 2018 to learn about the subject. However, further actions did not go beyond the ...; Created on 21 April 2020
32. German parlamentarians demand justice for Honduran environmental activists: (Regional News); ... "the preventive detention of the eight defenders lacks legal grounds and constitutes an arbitrary measure contrary to international human rights standards and guarantees of due process." Furthermore, they ...; Created on 20 April 2020
33. Honduran Land Defenders Receive the prestigious Letelier-Moffit award in Washington: (Regional News); ... human dignity of those who defend the commons in Guapinol, Honduras and the world.” He further stated, “In a time when we are living a climate crisis, the Honduran narco-government is more concerned with ...; Created on 24 October 2019
34. Save Nueva Vizcaya Movement Launched: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... red-tagging, surveillance, and intrusions in their homes by suspected personnel of Oceanagold. He further noted that there are also threats of dispersal and harm against the barricade especially in light ...; Created on 16 September 2019
35. Global protest launched against OceanaGold mine in the Philippines: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... pollution of rivers, unjust conditions of workers, illegal arrests, and red-tagging. The group also furthered that the entire Filipino people’s sovereign rights to their natural resources have been undermined ...; Created on 02 September 2019
36. Canadian mining companies are behaving badly in the Global South—and Wall Street is profiting from it: (FTAs & ISDS); ... sustaining and bolstering investment disputes, which is tipping the scales of ISDS even further in favour of multinational corporations. In practice, TPF is a fairly straightforward process. Investors ...; Created on 05 May 2019
37. Over two hundred organizations denounce multimillion-dollar suit brought by U.S. mining firm against Guatemala: (Media Releases); ... Office and others. In the letter, organizations argue that the suit “represents a further attack on Guatemala’s judicial system.” They point to mounting pressure on the Constitutional Court from President ...; Created on 04 May 2019
38. New Report Exposes Mining Companies Suing Latin American Countries Where Communities Defend Land and Environment: (FTAs & ISDS); ... highlights that for the Canadian companies who pursue ISDS across all economic sectors, environmental policy is the fastest growing trigger for such cases. The report further finds that financial speculators ...; Created on 03 May 2019
39. Letter of support for defenders of "La Puya" ...: (La Puya International Support Letter); ... supplies, ecosystems and the quality of life in the area. We express our dismay at how this suit represents a further attack on Guatemala’s judicial system. The Constitutional Court is already under ...; Created on 26 February 2019
40. Guatemalan court upholds Tahoe mine suspension: (Regional News); ... for], MEM completed the consultation within six months,” Tahoe said in a statement Monday. Tahoe did not respond to a CIM Magazine request for comment, but said in its statement that it would have further ...; Created on 16 September 2018

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