Urgent Communique from the Municipal Commission Specific to the Consultation on Mining
The members of the Commission recognized and designated by the Municipality of Asuncion Mita, Jutiapa to organize ...
Communique: Community organizations fear the return of metal mining El Salvador
San Salvador December 16, 2021 - Only four years have passed since El Salvador banned metal mining in all its forms. ...
Aldo Orellana Lopez
Terra Justa
We supported allies DHUMA to submit questions about Anglo American's Peruvian operations to their online AGM in May 2020. Their responses left much to be desired.
The ...
... to defend human rights. ”
In light of the standards set forth, CEJIL requested the Honduran Court of Appeals to issue a ruling in accordance with the aforementioned standards and, therefore, to revoke ...
La Republica
Through his lawyers Walter Aduviri, the governor of the Puno region, criticized his deputy governor Agustín Luque. Aduviri expressed that Luque will be solely responsible for the region' ...
Guatemala City, April 26-27, 2018.
We, the representatives of social movements, environmental organizations, human rights defenders, women's groups, indigenous peoples participating in the II Regional ...
Alfredo Carias : Contrapunto
Arcatao, San José las Flores, San Isidro Labrador and Nueva Trinidad in Chalatenango have already carried out referenda on mining.
Citizens of the municipality of Cinquera ...
... Monsignor José Elías Rauda, Bishop of the Diocese Of San Vicente, at a mass officiated in the church Santa Barbara, in Sensuntepeque, Cabañas. "Mining is not a matter of left or right but of life or death, ...
... to be delivered to the municipal City Council. The petition requested the council of San Jose Las Flores to conduct of a local referendum to declare the municipality a “Territory free of Mining."
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... said law. Theypresented a request to the Legislative Assembly detailing a reform that would ensure that corporations are no longer afforded the option of suing the government in the ICSID, before filing ...
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 ...
Mining Firm Doubles Up On Law Firms in Quest for Pot of Gold
Sarah Anderson, IPS Global Economy Project Director
Posted: 06/06/2012 5:50 pm
A Canadian mining company has cleared a major legal hurdle ...
¿Qué Pasó con los Arbitrajes con las Empresas Mineras?
18 04 2012
Netorivas
Versión Original
Hace días que no se habla sobre los arbitrajes con Commerce Group y Pacific Rim que han demandado ...
The costs of ICSID arbitration and the consequences for the enjoyment of social rights in El Salvador
February, 2012
By the Foundation for Studies on the Application of Law (FESPAD, a Member of the ...
... who were arrested in January.
A lack of evidence behind the allegation that they were involved in a civil war-era kidnapping and murder has raised questions from U.S. officials and the U.N. about the ...
... el sexto aniversario de la histórica prohibición minera, aprobada por unanimidad por la Asamblea Legislativa en 2017, hay indicios de que el gobierno del presidente Nayib Bukele está creando condiciones ...
... industry. This is unique in the region, the result of years of organizing by social groups, environmental organizations, and the Catholic Church.
Under President Nayib Bukele, however, this mining ...
... “raises questions about whether the true motivation is to attempt to silence these water defenders”.
Without providing details, prosecutors have also accused the five men of illicit association – a crime ...
... an international body that supports “sustainable development goals” for the mining sector. Neither institution responded to a request for comment.
The country last November also began negotiating a trade ...
... of the current government."
"This further raises questions about whether the attorney general's true motivation is to attempt to silence these water defenders, especially in light of the current administration' ...