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A new report by the Netherlands-based Transnational Institute reveals a rush of international arbitration cases against Latin American states by international investors during the COVID-19 pandemic. ...
... municipality of Eduardo Neri, in the center of the state of Guerrero, Mexico. These lands are located in an area that enjoys a peculiar and abundant wealth of precious metals. "The territory is crossed ...
... wetlands and glacier systems in the Andes, which are crucial sources of water for millions of people. Mining companies also have their sights set on the Amazon basin, the health and integrity of which ...
... sufficient supply of nutrients, the dilution of pollutants, the decrease of the impacts caused by extreme events and the preservation of the landscape. In this sense, studies of water resources should ...
... against Ecuador for $480 million over the suspension of the Rio Blanco mining project. Local communities achieved the suspension of this underground gold and silver mine in the highlands of south-central ...
... organization. She and her organization have been vocal in resisting the attempts of five large-scale mining companies to enter and operate in their ancestral lands and forests in the Andap Valley Complex ...
... Abarca award for environmental defense. MODEVITE has a presence in eleven municipalities, organizing with Tzeltal, Tzotzil and Ch’ol Indigenous peoples from the highlands and lowlands of Chiapas who are ...
... escalating conflict between big landowners and small farmers whose lands are being illegally occupied to make way for the palm oil industry.
The impacts of the conflict on the rights of the local rural ...
... back against “development aggression,” or corporate activities imposed on Indigenous ancestral lands without tribal consent. Many of these ventures are helmed by Canadian corporations.
Claver is one ...
... the destruction of biodiversity within the small areas of protected lands and mangrove forests; in addition to taking actions that weaken the public sector and in turn strengthen the private sector – among ...
... be said that one of the biggest environmental victories in the world was won in a small country, which for many decades was classified as one of the environmentally worst, not knowing that within its lands ...
... buy food. It takes him at least a couple of hours to commute from Didipio to the next province.
Long before mining companies entered Kasibu, Nueva Vizcaya has been known for its rich agricultural lands. ...
... said their current situation is far from what he dreamt he would be retiring to; far from what he and his ancestors invested to their rich mountainous lands; far from what they really deserve.
The luscious ...
... Court to protect wetlands that are the source of the country’s precious freshwater have triggered a spate of ISDS claims under the Canada-Colombia Free Trade Agreement. These, and similar cases, have sparked ...
... de la Terre (Friends of the Earth France)
Adveniat (GERMANY)
Both Ends(NETHERLANDS)
CAREA e.V (GERMANY)
CETRI Centre Tricontinental (BELGIQUE)
Christian Initiative Romero (CIR)(GERMANY)
Colectivo ...
... the mine to the United States.
“In an effort to force El Salvador into a decision, Pacific Rim reincorporated its Cayman Islands subsidiary Pac Rim Cayman, LLC (Pac Rim) in Nevada, and transferred ownership ...
... lands. Nueva Vizcaya is one of the fruit and vegetable capitals of Luzon. OceanaGold has dismissed such concerns with vague reassurances that it does "green" and "responsible" mining. Yet, monitoring reports ...
... of these lands should be then put in place in order to foster the development of the affected communities”, concluded Bernardo Belloso.
The concerns above, are in addition to concerns expressed a few ...
Dario Bossio - Iglesia y Minería
“Historically we have known the dealings of the corporations in our lands, in our countries. We have known firsthand how human rights are violated in our territories. ...
... all open-pit mining in 2010. Mining is also outlawed in high-altitude wetlands vitally important to water supplies in Colombia. And at least half a dozen provinces in Argentina have passed bans on industrial-scale ...