... Wharekirauponga (WKP), in the Coromandel, where it purchased rights to mine and explore in 2016.
The mining company has already started working on the tunnel on private farmland, even though it hasn’t ...
... from Honduras. We combined agendas so that all of us got the same update.
Félix Valentín works with the Organización Fraternal Negra Hondureña (OFRANEH), the structure that represents the Garifuna (or ...
... of Santa Marta.
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... where the five detained defenders live and work, but no one has ever faced justice.
Hundreds of national and international activists and organisations have condemned the detention as politically motivated. ...
... On Mining (Alianza Centroamericana frente a la Minería, ACAFREMIN), the Central American Network for the Defense of Cross-border Waters (Red Centroamericana por la Defensa de las Aguas Transfronterizas, ...
The Governments and Local Authorities of Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador, represented hereby are members of the Lempa River Trinational Border Association, and also the "Trinational Network for the ...
... (also known as Organización Fraternal Negra Hondureña, OFRANEH). This organization works to vindicate the cultural, political, and territorial rights of the Garifuna people.
* For its work defending ...
... does not seek to strengthen the institutional framework of the MAG.
The Law denies citizen participation. This Law creates a bureaucratic, vertical and centralized institutional framework that continues ...
... Mines Directorate; Public Works; Foreign Relations and Finance; as well as the Central Reserve Bank, Some municipalities, FOVIAL; and with some institutions in the private sector and academia.
According ...
... close relationships with large investors in this industry.
Instead of complying with the current law prohibiting metallic mining, the government, in May of this year, joined an international network ...
... shareholders, BHP and Glencore filed separate lawsuits for the same reason on April 27 and June 1, respectively.
Cerrejón has not been able to work on the northern section of the La Puente pit since ...
... such as the Central America–Dominican Republic Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA-DR), which have been imposed on Guatemalans. This framework favors the development of large-scale mining and energy projects that ...
... to come. What nature worked on and harnessed to develop in millennia will be gone in 25 years (the lifetime of a “Financial and Technical Assistance Agreement” for mining projects in the Philippines). ...
... a country rich in precious minerals.
In a position paper read at a hearing of a panel of the House of Representatives Wednesday, Kalikasan People’s Network for the Environment called for the urgent passage ...
... also be allocated for the government’s pandemic response.
But Kalikasan People’s Network for the Environment refuted this, saying the move is a “fake Covid-19 economic recovery program.”
“We won’t ...
... the operating licence remains suspended.”
The full statement by the Peaceful Resistance has been translated into English by the Guatemala Solidarity Network and can be read here.
The Peace Brigades ...
CNCA
Today the Canadian Network on Corporate Accountability (CNCA) releases draft model legislation that provides lawmakers with a blueprint for writing into Canadian law the corporate duty to respect ...
... Silver offloaded this project in 2012 after operating the mine for seventeen years, saying it trusted the responsibility of the incoming company to take care of workers and communities. But the new owners ...
... Consolidated Mining Corporation has worked closely with the Canadian company Ivanhoe Mines Ltd. over the past 20 years— and the environmental impact of their operations have been devastating.
“Abra ...
... company’s community work as coercive, in violation of the “free” nature of the consultation and the Constitutional Court suspension order, and a main driver of increased tension and violence. In their ...