UNHRC moves away from voluntary standards and towards a binding treaty to prevent transnationalcorporations human rights violations
Twenty country members of the United Nations Human Rights Council, ...
... rights.”
The case of Pacific Rim-OceanaGold and the human rights violations the company has engaged in while in El Salvador was presented in Geneva by Saul Baños, a member of La Mesa and a lawyer with ...
By Danielle Marie Mackey
First published in: http://www.guernicamag.com/features/the-rights-clash/
Mining in El Salvador exposes the contradiction between human rights and corporate rights under ...
Take Action to Support El Salvador’s Human Right to Water
On October 20th, thousands of people will be marching in El Salvador to demand their Human Right to water and demonstrate their opposition to ...
ADES and MUFRAS 32 and the communities of Cabañas celebrate the IV Festival for the Human Right to a Healthy Environment
By, Héctor Berrios
On September 15, 2012 women, men, young people and children ...
Investor Rights Strip Communities of their Basic National Sovereignty
On the day of the expected Pacific Rim decision, the National Roundtable against Metallic Mining organized a press conference with ...
CAFTA Investor Rights Undermining Democracy and the Environment: Pacific Rim Mining Case
2010
Pacific Rim Mining Corp., a Canadian-based multinational firm, sought to establish a massive gold mine ...
The costs of ICSID arbitration and the consequences for the enjoyment of social rights in El Salvador
February, 2012
By the Foundation for Studies on the Application of Law (FESPAD, a Member of the ...
The CAC Reports a New Round of Threats
On the heels of the one year anniversary of the murder of Juan Francisco Duran, the Environmental Committee of Cabañas (CAC) reports new threats towards ...
... the country. We also have concerns that these men have been denied their basic right to due process,” 17 U.S. members of Congress said in a letter earlier this month.
Known locally as “water defenders,” ...
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21 de abril: (EL SALVADOR) Marcha del Agua en el Lago Güija en la frontera con Guatemala y El Salvador para exigir el cierre de la Mina ...
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... human rights defenders, including environmental defenders, as they oppose his extractivist economic agenda. The use of hatred by the president is replicated by all the institutions of the state apparatus ...
... role in securing a historic mining ban in El Salvador have been detained accused of civil war era and gang-related crimes, in what rights groups fear is a ruse to restart mining.
Miguel Ángel Gámez, ...
... The water defenders were part of a resistance group fighting the right-wing dictatorship during the war. But they come from Santa Marta, a community founded by displaced people largely considered to be ...