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(Ottawa/Washington/Melbourne) A new study finds that OceanaGold’s attempt to rebrand its proposed gold mine in El Salvador through the use of a company-sponsored foundation ...
Experts Will Assign Responsibility in Mining Case
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October 9, 2012-German Rivas
La Prensa Grafica
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... protection is the responsibility of each of the three states.
6. That within international law and particularly of the Treaty between the Republics of El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras for the execution ...
... El Salvador, there are more than 2,500 rural and community water systems that supply almost 25% of the Salvadoran population. The absence of the State that has historically neglected its responsibility ...
... mining and establishes the promotion of mineral mining as a "duty of the State". It assigns the new Directorate with responsibility for establishing, maintaining and promoting cooperative relations with ...
... deemed not “pertinent”.
Shareholders asked if Pan American Silver would take responsibility for acid drainage and other tailings dam risks at the Quiruvilca mine in La Libertad, Peru. Pan American ...
... has listing and disclosure requirements that are pretty lax.”
Canada is a playground of deregulation for mining companies headquartered here. As both Lang and Asuncion asserted, corporate social responsibility ...
... 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 ...
... “legal stability” for individuals and property.
The Agreement also seems to preclude the possibility of social welfare. Residents must commit to “self-responsibility,” meaning the ability to meet the ...
... to shrug off responsibility for the shutdown. During the company’s third quarter investors’ conference call on November 9, Milau suggested that the residents of Carrizalillo, who live next to the mine’s ...
... the bishops’ conference of Honduras published a statement in October 2018 where they note, “The greatest responsibility for this situation lies with the economic model that privileges the excessive desire ...
... sided with the company to absolve it of responsibility and to discredit the Shuar People’s elected leadership instead.
As documented in Voices from the Ground, other mineral exploration companies have ...
... the use of this water to the Peruvian State and to the farming communities that depend on rainfall and underground and surface water courses, as an act of social responsibility and commitment to the environment. ...
... necessity and proportionality, essential in a democratic society ”. In this sense, the rule should be the liberty of the person prosecuted while resolving their criminal responsibility.
The organization ...
... elements to carry out these actions. Similarly, the National Roundtable against Mining is also contributing towards this objective. But the Government has failed on its responsibility to implement remediation as ...
... to the companies, as well as the countries where their headquarters are based, to take responsibility.
“Shouldn’t the mother countries be accountable for allowing their corporations to take advantage ...
... have recognized there’s a problem but have responded with policies and oversight bodies that are powerless by design.
For example, the establishment of a Corporate Social Responsibility Counsellor, ...
... to provide security services, and a change to the laws that exempts the police from any responsibility if they kill somebody in the line of duty and it’s no surprise to see that, of the 78 human rights ...
... on the contrary, the international economic system is designed to shield corporations from the responsibility of systemically violating the rights to life, health, environment, safety, work, environmental ...