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) ...
... of fresh water due to its release of acid mine drainage.” Organized around the slogan “Water is more important than gold,” activists succeeded in getting the mining ban passed and thereby ensured the ecological ...
... that violate human rights.
We all have the right to migrate, but we also have the right to stay in the country and live well. Because this is a country where we could live and ensure our well-being, ...
... type of thing.”
“So, it has to be implemented in binding legislation and enacted in law for it to actually work, and also they need to be working alongside local community members to ensure that the ...
... effectiveness of existing mechanisms to ensure that all Canadian corporations under its jurisdiction, in particular mining corporations, respect human rights standards when operating abroad; (b) consider ...
... Governments will continue to set their own rules on the environment, and foreign companies and local communities will continue to have disputes. By helping to ensure that those laws are upheld—and that ...
... efforts to ensure that Glencore assumes responsibility for its impacts, the landscape in the territories does not seem to have changed much. For this reason it is necessary to support the push for mechanisms ...
... OceanaGold and take appropriate action to ensure it is meeting corporate social responsibility standards.
[ANCoMP members include: Action for Peace and Development in the Philippines; Advanced League ...
... in the early 2030s.
Haile had agreed to post a $10 million cash bond before the mine opened in 2017, but expanding the gold mine will increase environmental risks — and more cash better ensures taxpayers ...
... at the continued human rights abuses by Honduran security forces and the corrupt actions of President Juan Orlando Hernández. This legislation will ensure that the U.S. government is not complicit in abuses ...
... penalties and easier pathways to prosecution of these companies are required, and Canada needs to work with other governments to ensure that local communities are listened to, rather than attacked, when ...
... include:
Fair and equitable treatment: The fair and equitable treatment standard aims to ensure that the conduct of business by a foreign investor is not hampered by the host state without good reason. ...
... as their leader and representative of the democratic opposition."
When the Islamic State arrived in Mosul in August 2014, Mgr Najeeb Michaeel, Archbishop of Mosul, ensured the evacuation of Christians, ...
... Escaleras National Park...
The legal team ensures that pre-trial jail in this case is unnecessary, disproportionate and illegal. What’s more, the new criminal code, which came into force in June 2020 ...
... mining corporations will not deliver a future for the Global South that ensures good food, clean air and water, healthy communities, and planetary survival. However, the health-centered struggles and collective ...
... damage from these activities, or ensure that more of the benefits stay in the home country.
Of the 34 cases we examined, one targeted Canada. All the rest were aimed at governments in the Global South. ...
... “ecological flow” must be established, which ensures a sufficient amount of water in the flows for the correct functioning of ecosystems, the preservation of biological resources and biodiversity, the ...
... do not forget and that we have will continue to demand the truth, and we know that we must continue to advocate to ensure that Marcelo’s death is not forgotten, and to ensure that the intellectual authors ...
... the development of hygiene in homes, if one wants to effectively face the crisis generated by the current pandemic and other socio-natural phenomena water must be ensured in sufficient and good quality. ...
... of the Health Emergency due to the COVID-19 pandemic that is plaguing the world and the country, water must be considered as a human right and the approval of a General Water Law must be ensured.
In ...