... the National Roundtable Against Metallic Mining in El Salvador mobilized to the Embassy of Guatemala in El Salvador today to express our opposition to the Cerro Blanco mine. The Cerro Blanco operation, ...
Given its failure to pay its fees to ICSID, the tribunal rejected the extension request by the mining company Commerce Group in the trial against El Salvador
On August 9th the International Centre for ...
U.S. and Canadian Press Coverage:
Reuters Canada: El Salvador Says Panel Rejects Complaint from Canadian Miner
Reuters: Canadian Miners Complaint Can Proceed Under El Salvador Law
CNBC: BRIEF-Pac ...
Salvadorans Pressure the Attorney General for Justice
On April 25th the civil society organizations and communities that make up the National Roundtable against Metallic Mining (the Mesa in Spanish) ...
... tossing out the case.
Steve Watrous, of the Midwest Coalition Against Lethal Mining, a group of student, environmental, and religious organizations that have been pressuring Commerce Group to drop the ...
The Mesa’s Elections Campaign Heats Up
With the midterm elections less than a month away the National Roundtable against Metallic Mining in El Salvador (the Mesa in Spanish) has increased their pressure ...
... environmental coalitions, has publicly announced its new campaign to pressure decision makers. It will be calling on voters not to vote for candidates who don’t support and promote the anti-mining ban ...
... organizations express the following:
1. Our full support, recognition and solidarity with the Santa Marta Community and ADES who are now facing attempts to smear, discredit and intimidate with dubious ...
... carried out under article 64 of the Guatemalan Municipal Code.
We express:
That today, September 21, 2022, at 3:45 pm, we were notified about an injunction against the Commission specifically ...
... waste systems, recently published by the Heinrich Boll Foundation confirms the concerns expressed by environmental organizations. Dr. Dina Lopez, a retired vulcanologist from the University of Ohio, has ...
... Miriam Miranda highlights that the award to OFRANEH comes at a time when pressure from the Honduran government is increasing to deprive indigenous and black peoples of their territories; a moment in which ...
... regulations, instructions, resolutions, standards, agreements and other general provisions […] will remain in force […] while they are not expressly repealed or modified”. This ambiguity clearly opens ...
FIDES
Salvadoran Cardinal Gregorio Rosa Chávez, in his usual Sunday press conference, said he hopes that the initiative of the water law that the government will present contains the progress made in ...
... police actions to defend the company’s interests and repress community members. Just a couple of weeks ago, police put on an intimidating show of force on behalf of KCA, a reminder of the strong government ...
... administrations refused.”
It is important to mention that the lead up to this pre-consultation process has been marked by a context of repression, criminalization, assassinations, and discrimination. ...
... Ministry of Energy and Mines (MEM).
We Express:
Our rejection of the damaging mining project which negatively affects the lives of the people and the well-being of the environment.
Our rejection ...
CNCA
Today the Canadian Network on Corporate Accountability (CNCA) releases draft model legislation that provides lawmakers with a blueprint for writing into Canadian law the corporate duty to respect ...
... American is fueling with Indigenous Mapuche Tehuelche People and other residents of the province of Chubut, Argentina. The company’s involvement in pressuring local authorities to overturn a mining ban ...
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Since the infamous vote, human rights defenders have continued the call for legally binding regulations on the sector. Pressure from civil society eventually produced a commitment from the Justin Trudeau ...
... is arbitrary as it constitutes a reprisal for the defenders' legitimate exercise of their rights to freedom of movement, equality before the law, freedom of expression, freedom of assembly and association, ...