... that a local indigenous community had not consented to the operation. The atlas uses information gathered from local communities to both raise the profile of their struggle and to connect disparate environmental ...
... on the 13th to the 15th of November, 2019. For years, defenders belonging to the alliance have raised concerns about the impacts of the mining industry that violate multiple human rights and cause irreversible ...
... stock exchanges and raise funds in multiple countries, and mine in yet another country, they should be able to be held to account in any of the jurisdictions where they have a significant nexus,” Coumans ...
... many people in the department of Cabañas and other sectors of the country who recognize their struggle, and subsequent murders due to the presence of mining corporations, managed to raise national awareness ...
... and the use of slave labour. Yet there are rarely any consequences for companies where they are headquartered and allowed to raise most of their money – namely, in Canada.Successive Canadian governments ...
Andrés McKinley - UK LAB
On March 29th, 2017, the small country of El Salvador became the first nation in the world to exercise its sovereign right to say “no” to metallic mining after carefully analyzing ...
... sources in the community. Instead of responding to concerns raised by the public, the company sued the government of El Salvador, first in local courts and later at the International Centre for the Settlement ...
... Morales denounced that a "green mining" campaign recently emerged on social media networks is raising the alarm of a possible counter-offensive by the industry to raise the issue again in the public arena ...
... on her family, including her three-year-old daughter’s life. But the radio station continued its campaign.
“It was such a hard time,” she says, “but instead of people shutting up in fear, they raised ...
... struggle carried out for 12 years by various organized expressions of society that raised their voices against metallic mining. However, irreparable damage was done with the murder of Dora Sorto, who opposed ...
... Canadian based company. The shares were bought on October 2013 after Pacific Rim’s failed to raise funds to continue a law suit against El Salvador. The Canadian company had begun mining exploration in ...
... issue of mining was a totally unknown issue," said Morales, who added that she had to "raise awareness among the population" about the threats it posed.
All this fight for the environment represented threats ...
... raise attention to the injustice of the lawsuit while providing “research accompaniment” and media outreach on both Pac Rim and the lawsuit.10
One of the remarkable biases of this system of investor rules, ...
... aggravated divisions and raised the stakes around current and potential economic benefits from mining. These could only have contributed to threats and violence against community organizations and people ...
... mining projects. They also highlighted the absurdity of Canada’s ongoing praise of international trade deals and the assertion that they will contribute to economic development in countries like El Salvador. ...
... of El Salvador raised concerns over the failure of the company’s El Dorado gold mine to submit an Environmental Impact Assessment. OceaneGold then sued the small Central American country in the World Bank' ...
... countries, which came together in 2009 as International Allies, praised the communities in El Salvador that have opposed the mining company and have rallied the Salvadoran public and government to oppose ...
... 2013, Pacific Rim, a company without any real assets except the hope of mining in El Salvador, ran into financial troubles in 2012 after it failed to raise the money needed to continue the costly suit ...
... human living; and we met people full of skin sores who told us about their suffering. All that information helped us raise awareness among our population to stop the mine.”
To make it more difficult ...
... as a dispute resolution mechanism.
The company ran into financial troubles in 2013 when it failed to raise further investment to sustain a high profile law suit. In October 2013 it sold its ...