search

1. Urgent! Strengthening a powerful global voice in defence of life: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); By: Antonia Recinos - Radio Victoria / Translation: Sigrun Pallesen and Marina Bonetti On the 15th of August 2015, I was invited to participate in a mission of solidarity to the region of Didipío, ...; Created on 29 September 2015
2. Trade Deals Are Giving Corporations the Power to Intimidate Tiny Countries: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); Sandra Cuffe: New Republic Alejandro Guevara hasn’t slept. There was a death in La Maraña, and Guevara, the vice president of the community environmental association, spent the night at the wake. Still, ...; Created on 13 May 2015
3. El Salvador’s Historic Metal Mining Ban Is in Danger: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... meet necessary regulatory requirements, and was ordered to pay El Salvador $8 million in legal fees. Following the victory over the Canadian company, the anti-mining movement was empowered. It used its ...; Created on 06 April 2023
4. Salvadoran environmental defenders detained for decades-old crimes: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... arrests send thousands into despair Nayib Bukele, the authoritarian populist president who swept to power in 2019, has repeatedly blocked attempts to seek justice for civil war victims – the vast majority ...; Created on 04 April 2023
5. MIRIAN MIRANDA: There is a genocidal plan against the Garífuna people: (Regional News); ... The Garífuna people are matrilineal people. The power of women is great, it is part of our culture and identity. In Garífuna communities, women can be left alone and the community will always continue ...; Created on 25 December 2021
6. Communique: Community organizations fear the return of metal mining in El Salvador: (Media Releases); ... and establishes among the powers of the new Directorate, the capacity to establish, maintain and promote cooperative relations with foreign and multilateral institutions or organizations "linked to the ...; Created on 16 December 2021
7. Why Canada is at the centre of global mining atrocities: (Mining and Human Rights); ... rights abuses and environmental devastation. But they are up against a very powerful lobbying group and a government with very little will to transform the industry. In 2010, a private members bill was ...; Created on 12 May 2021
8. Canada’s Mining Industry Is Spreading Havoc Around the World — With Justin Trudeau’s Support: (Mining and Human Rights); ... establishing an independent mechanism with powers to investigate human rights abuses by such corporations abroad; and (c) develop a legal framework that affords legal remedies to people who have been victims ...; Created on 07 May 2021
9. A New Environmentalist Playbook An improbable victory in El Salvador offers lessons for grassroots activists worldwide: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... and powerful Western corporations set their sights on these lands, or the minerals beneath them, local people standing in their way frequently find themselves bulldozed. In the era of climate catastrophe, ...; Created on 23 April 2021
10. Swiss mining transnational Glencore in the Andes: (General mining reports ); ... and children in rural communities in the area. A Giant in Espinar - Glencore and the patterns of corporate power in the South of Peru An important detail regarding the conflict in Espinar is the existence ...; Created on 22 April 2021
11. El Salvador’s Water Defenders and the Fight Against Toxic Mining: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... community meetings, a Pac Rim official boasted that cyanide was so safe that he was more than happy to drink a glass of a favorite local drink, horchata, laced with a white power he claimed was cyanide. ...; Created on 11 April 2021
12. 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
13. WATER IS LIFE. CAN WE PROTECT IT?: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... the Apache lands to Mississippi to Flint, Michigan. If ordinary people can overcome powerful companies to protect their water in a poor country like El Salvador, imagine what their counterparts can do ...; Created on 28 March 2021
14. Parliamentary Petition Calls on Canada to Act on Human Rights Abuses in the Philippines: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... an Ombudsperson in Canada who has the necessary investigatory powers to compel witnesses and documents to address complaints against Canadian mining companies.” MiningWatch Canada and the International ...; Created on 25 February 2021
15. A Private Government in Honduras Moves Forward: (Mining and Human Rights); ... services and pays a determined royalty to the Council. Any semblance of local democracy in the Próspera charter is undermined by the power of the Committee for the Adoption of Best Practices (CAMP) over ...; Created on 15 February 2021
16. OceanaGold (ASX:OGC) fined A$128,500 as environmental concerns at Haile continue: (OceanaGold); ... its Environmental Policy. Former Democratic member of the South Carolina House of Representatives Mandy Powers Norrell, who raised concerns regarding the mine's environmental impact before it opened, ...; Created on 15 February 2021
17. Gold mine fined $100,000. Toxic air pollution found at big mine near tiny town: (OceanaGold); ... the latest fine has sparked questions about OceanaGold’s commitment to following rules that protect the environment. Former state Rep. Mandy Powers Norrell, who questioned the mine’s potential environmental ...; Created on 12 February 2021
18. Canadian Mining Companies Are Devastating The Global South: (Mining and Human Rights); ... address complaints about abuses by Canadian corporations overseas, has been criticized by activists for not having any powers to actually investigate or deal with these abuses. CORE was, however, praised ...; Created on 21 January 2021
19. Vizcaya governor asks Rody to end 2 mine operations: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... irrigation services and hydroelectric power,” he said. Appealing for the nonrenewal of the OGPI FTAA, Padilla said the expansion of the company’s mining operation would endanger the unexplored areas and ...; Created on 21 January 2021
20. NEW BOOK: The water defenders - how ordinary people saved a country from corporate greed: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); Water is life. Countless communities across the world, from Flint, Michigan to the Standing Rock Reservation to the Gualcarque River in Honduras, have used this phrase as a rallying cry against powerful ...; Created on 14 January 2021

Start
Prev
1
2
3
Next
End

Allied Organizations

Contact Us