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21. A New Environmentalist Playbook An improbable victory in El Salvador offers lessons for grassroots activists worldwide: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... corporate power. These alliances allow bad actors to run roughshod over community resistance, from towns like Marcelo Rivera’s to the Brazilian Amazon to the palm oil plantations of Indonesia. Recent investigations ...; Created on 23 April 2021
22. Swiss mining transnational Glencore in the Andes: (General mining reports ); ... consultation on the Initiative on Corporate Responsibility carried out in Switzerland in November 2020, as well as an update on the negotiation process at the UN for a Binding Treaty on Business and Human ...; Created on 22 April 2021
23. Australian-Canadian mining company OceanaGold misleads public on Filipino mine: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... 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 ...; Created on 22 April 2021
24. What Salvadoran Activists Can Teach Us About Building Coalitions: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); The Nation Robin Broad and John Cavanagh In March 2017, people from poorer communities across El Salvador stood up to corporate power and convinced their legislature to make their country the first ...; Created on 05 April 2021
25. Gold mine expansion could produce $2.5 billion. But environmental problems linger: (OceanaGold); ... letters of credit, corporate guarantees and other mechanisms. DHEC did not directly address whether more cash would be required, but a spokeswoman indicated in an email that the $10 million in cash posted ...; Created on 30 March 2021
26. An unlikely eco-alliance in postwar El Salvador: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... Saved A Country from Corporate Greed." TRANSCRIPT: Marco Werman: This is a story about gold and water and activism. El Salvador is dangerously close to running out of clean water. Its rivers have ...; Created on 22 March 2021
27. Ottawa must disclose how it aided Goldcorp in human rights dispute, Federal Court will hear: (Mining and Human Rights); ... of human rights abuse at its mine in Guatemala. The lawsuit, filed by Shin Imai, York University law professor and co-founder of the Justice & Corporate Accountability Project (JCAP), is supported by ...; Created on 02 March 2021
28. Parliamentary Petition Calls on Canada to Act on Human Rights Abuses in the Philippines: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... at the consular level in the Philippines and through its lack of corporate accountability mechanisms at home. “When some of the villagers were falsely accused, facing threats of extrajudicial killing because ...; Created on 25 February 2021
29. A Private Government in Honduras Moves Forward: (Mining and Human Rights); ... over the 58 acres now incorporated into the ZEDE model. The land has allegedly been transferred from the municipal registry to an independent Próspera ZEDE land registry. The ZEDE law gives the Honduran ...; Created on 15 February 2021
30. Canadian Mining Companies Are Devastating The Global South: (Mining and Human Rights); ... what pushing back against Canadian corporate interests can do. In 2011, Aduviri, an Indigenous Aymara leader from Peru’s Puno region, helped lead a protest movement against a silver mine in the region ...; Created on 21 January 2021
31. Disputes against governments under investment treaties: a growing trend in the mining industry in 2020: (ISDS); ... most modern investment treaties contain investor-state arbitration clauses. These operate to allow an investor of one state party (such as a mining company incorporated in the relevant state) to bring ...; Created on 06 January 2021
32. Reclaim Your Rights: Defend Indigenous People’s Lands: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... indigenous territories. Wealth outpours to secure corporate profit at the expense of indigenous rights to land and environment protection. Imperialist plunder dominates over people’s health and lives. ...; Created on 17 December 2020
33. The hidden connection between a US steel company and the controversial Los Pinares mine in Honduras: (Regional News); ... registry, the partnership between the Honduran and U.S. companies included an agreement by which a subsidiary of Nucor incorporated in Switzerland, Nucor Trading, would purchase the raw materials produced ...; Created on 28 November 2020
34. After trying to protect water sources, these Hondurans have been held without bail for more than a year.: (Mining and Human Rights); ... of corporate environmental ethics” and dismissed the Guapinol’s water defenders as “false environmentalists.” A Pinares statement suggested, according to The Nation, “that many are armed criminals who, ...; Created on 25 September 2020
35. New Report: Mining Injustice Through International Arbitration: Countering Kappes, Cassiday & Associates’ Claims over a Gold-mining Project in Guatemala: (Regional News); ... ignores or even awards corporate abuses by enabling private companies to sue national governments over matters of public interest, such as the devastating social and environmental impacts of mining. “KCA’s ...; Created on 24 August 2020
36. The Honduran government intensifies persecution against defenders of the Guapinol River: (Regional News); ... the right to organize, and the right to defend rights, have been denied to the defenders of the Guapinol River. Instead, they have been criminalized by the state for the benefit of corporate rights. With ...; Created on 20 August 2020
37. Defending Land and Water from Mining Profiteers in the Time of Covid-19: (Regional News); by Jen Moore - inequality.org Global South Communities affected by mining face multiple pandemics - health, economic, violence, militarization and corporate capture Over the years, the mining industry ...; Created on 23 July 2020
38. In El Estor: a chain of breaches and contempt by CGN-PRONICO puts the lives of human rights defenders at risk: (Regional News); ... Along with this, CGN-PRONICO launched a campaign by corporate media to delegitimize the sentence emitted by Constitutional Court and organized a sit-in in front of the building that houses the Constitutional ...; Created on 12 June 2020
39. With Passage of NAFTA 2.0, Congress Boosts Fossil Fuel Polluters, Particularly in Mexico: (FTAs & ISDS); ... nature over corporate rights, as we laid out in the report “Beyond NAFTA 2.0.” The Sierra Club, one of the most vocal opponents of the USMCA, had demanded complete elimination of the ISDS system, which ...; Created on 03 May 2020
40. International report finds that the Honduran government violates the rights of Tocoa's environmental defender: (Regional News); ... Honduras when they challenge the legality of corporate mega projects and the power of extractive industries. Specifically, the report finds that in the case of the licences granted to Inversiones los ...; Created on 20 April 2020

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