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But Ivanhoe Mines is not the only Canadian company operating in the Philippines. While Claver said corporate mining ownership has been difficult for civil society to track due to a “global practice of ...
... a Supreme Court ruling that suspended his sentence. However, the judicial harassment he and other leaders of the Aymarazo protest movement have faced is a reminder of Canada’s leading role in the global ...
ON WORLD INDIGENOUS PEOPLE’S DAY, THE GLOBAL NETWORK YES TO LIFE NO TO MINING JOINS THE GLOBAL PROTEST AGAINST OCEANA GOLD WITH ITS MEMBER ORGANISATION KALIKASAN FROM THE PHILIPPINES
Indigenous peoples ...
... growing concerns over the ability of governments in the Global South to act decisively on serious environmental issues such as climate change.
In other words, in order to take meaningful environmental ...
Leon Dulce: IPCM
The 2016 World Social Forum recently held in Montreal, Canada became an important opportunity to develop an important global undertaking: the forging of an international people's campaign ...
World Economic Forum
This report highlights the most significant global risks, including economic, environmental, geopolitical, societal and technological risks. It identifies global risks and their ...
GermanWatch
According to the Climate Risk Index, less developed countries will be the most affected by extreme weather events. The countries most affected by impacts of weather-related loss events such ...
By: Antonia Recinos - Radio Victoria / Translation: Sigrun Pallesen and Marina Bonetti
On the 15th of August 2015, I was invited to participate in a mission of solidarity to the region of Didipío, ...
Activists are challenging rules that grant corporations the right to sue governments.
By Robin Broad and John Cavanah
Published in http://www.thenation.com/article/177930/global-fight-against-corporate-rule?page=full# ...
PRESS RELEASE
In commemoration of Global Day of Action Against Open Pit Mining the National Roundtable Against Metallic Mining, once again demand the Legislature of El Salvador to expedite and promote ...
Today’s Trivia Quiz: How Global Mining Corporations Are Able to Undermine Democracy
Posted By Triplecrisis On June 28, 2012 @ 9:00 am In Guest Bloggers | No Comments
Robin Broad, guest blogger
Today’s ...
Global Investment Rules: Threat to Democracy and the Environment
Around the world, citizens have been mobilizing to defend their environment and economic sovereignty from transnational corporations, ...
... defenders who were instrumental in achieving a 2017 legislative ban on metal mining in El Salvador.
Global alarm has been building since Miguel Ángel Gámez, Alejandro Laínez García, Pedro Antonio Rivas ...
... "green mining," "modern mining," and "responsible mining." But the experience with metallic mining in Central America, and globally, teaches us that there is nothing new under the sun. Central American mines ...
... a Castillo government that would seek higher taxes on mining is "becoming more of a reality," Rohan Reddy, Global X vice president, and research analyst, said by phone.
Higher taxes would raise costs ...
... been used as a neocolonial instrument to discipline and punish governments and peoples in the Global South in order to protect transnational companies over everything else.
Nearly a third of the more ...
... human rights and the environment.
The draft model law, if adopted, would require Canadian companies to prevent human rights and environmental harm throughout their global operations and supply chains. ...
... almost any country in the Global South, from Papua New Guinea to Ghana, Ecuador to the Philippines, and you will find a Canadian-run mine that has caused environmental devastation or been the scene of ...
... to the highest social and environmental international standards and considers Didipio the template for responsible mining globally,” he added.
In October last year, as many as 496 employees at the Didipio ...