... 2015 setting an all time record of 74 new cases in just one year.
Pacific Rim is a Canadian company, also registered in the Cayman Islands tax haven. In its first attempt to bring the ISDS case against ...
... in the neighboring department of Chalatenango have conducted referenda where 99% of the population said no to mining in their lands.
It is now Cinquera´s turn, and environmentalists expectations a positive ...
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Ongd AFRICANDO, Spain
Plataforma Salvemos Cabana, Spain
PowerShift e.V., Germany
Protect the Forest, Sweden
Sukuma arts e.V., Germany
Transnational Institute, Netherlands
War on Want, UK
Latin ...
... are calling for an end to mining operations and for their lands to be rehabilitated. The statement highlighted "massive environmental degradation, human rights abuses, and the pollution of waterways and ...
... Allies Against Mining in El Salvador congratulate you in the unequivocal legal victory that asserts the struggle that for many years you have conducted to defend your water and lands from mining exploitation. ...
... sentiment in the discussions is that the case of OceanaGold presages what a free-trade economic regime would be like: the 100-percent foreign ownership of mineralized lands in ‘resource-cursed’ countries, ...
Gloria Orellana – CoLatino.
Berta Caceres' murder did not fall on "deaf ears", peasant and indigenous organizations from Honduras and El Salvador have decided, under a banner of solidarity, to unite ...
... indignation and sadness at Berta’s murder. I cried a lot and felt pain.
And it is not a unique case. Through this decade many others have been murdered in Honduras for defending their lands. Here in ...
... has become a habit to resist mining”. Rodolfo shows us the wonderful landscape of Chalatenango. After a 30-minute-hike, we have climbed the Patacón mountain, and we enjoy the view.
Here, the company ...
... Honduras. It teems with dragonflies and butterflies. The hill is called Cerro Patacon, named after a bloodsucking insect. “We do not want new bloodsuckers to come here and plunder this landscape”. People ...