Teresa Alvarado: Transparencia Activa
The National Roundtable Against Metallic Mining, an entity that groups 11 citizen organizations - delivered a letter to the Legislative Assembly to demand approval ...
... natural resources, especially water, which are already suffering from dramatic levels of deterioration and vulnerability.
According to the United Nations, El Salvador has, after Haiti, the most deteriorate ...
... have been winning most of the lawsuits in these so-called “investor-state” tribunals, but here again El Salvador prevailed.
How? Why? What lessons can be learned, and can nations and activists build ...
... “they have political weight globally and are important ways to increase power”. A statement describing the human right violations of Pacific Rim-Oceana Gold was then submitted to the United Nations Human ...
... listed by the United Nations as one of the most environmentally degraded countries in the Latin America, and that’s without any major mining operations. The enormous threat of large-scale mining for rural ...
... Mesa). “Pac Rim's presence in El Salvador has fomented local conflict, which has led to threats, attacks, and assassinations. We want OceanaGold, and all the misery it has caused, out of El Salvador, and ...
... the lowest regulatory standards, and investor-state dispute systems undermining the sovereignty of nations are just among its alarming features.
The growing international people’s struggle against the ...
... peasant and indigenous movements from Honduras and El Salvador was to assess the reality and experiences that both nations face in relation to "megaprojects" that generate forced migration of populations, ...
... making donations to schools, clinics and other activities, but the operations of this entity also have the potential to exacerbate conflicts among the same population.
"We believe this research reveals ...
... right to sue sovereign nations for upholding public interests like preventing pollution seems, there’s little talk of investor-state clauses in the United States. That’s probably because we haven’t lost ...