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1. A Private Government in Honduras Moves Forward: (Mining and Human Rights); ... sudden onslaught of these new jurisdictions, Economic Development and Employment Zones (ZEDEs), which international promoters refer to as “charter cities,” “startup cities,” or “free private cities.” U.S. ...; Created on 15 February 2021
2. Water Forum of El Salvador: Water law secretly negotiated by goverment and private sector: (Mining and Human Rights); ... there was no negotiation with the private sector and it was denied that a new water bill was being planned. The Water Forum publicly denounces the existence of a proposed “General Water Law” agreed ...; Created on 26 September 2016
3. The Cerro Blanco mine and the right to consultation: (Cerro Blanco); ... informed consultation in the extractive industry is a driver of socio-environmental conflicts in Guatemala. As González stated, “impunity and the trade of private interests is a characteristic of the mining ...; Created on 22 September 2022
4. Public statement of the Local Governments of Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador, members of the Lempa River Trinational Border Association, regarding the “Cerro Blanco” mining project, developed by the ...: (Cerro Blanco); ... of the Region, which recognize pre-constituted rights to private and foreign companies. We demand that before guaranteeing rights to foreign corporations, the governments first guarantee the inalienable ...; Created on 12 June 2022
5. PRESS RELESE: Environmental Organizations Dennounce Privatization of Water in El Salvador: (Media Releases); ... companies. Another mechanism that generates water injustice, and favors theft and dispossession, are the private agreements between ANDA (National Association for the Management of Sewers and Aqueducts) ...; Created on 23 December 2021
6. Communique: Community organizations fear the return of metal mining in El Salvador: (Media Releases); ... Mines Directorate; Public Works; Foreign Relations and Finance; as well as the Central Reserve Bank, Some municipalities, FOVIAL; and with some institutions in the private sector and academia. According ...; Created on 16 December 2021
7. In Guatemala, Harris Should Address U.S. Policies That Put Corporations Over People: (Mining and Human Rights); ... are devastating to the well-being of rural communities and Indigenous peoples, while allowing private corporations to sue governments over hard-fought social and environmental protections. Case in ...; Created on 07 June 2021
8. 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
9. Canada’s Mining Industry Is Spreading Havoc Around the World — With Justin Trudeau’s Support: (Mining and Human Rights); ... and have their suits heard before private, investor-friendly international tribunals. The Trudeau government has channeled more than $100 million in assistance for international projects whose real purpose ...; Created on 07 May 2021
10. Swiss mining transnational Glencore in the Andes: (General mining reports ); ... has to do with its scope, since it would now focus not only on transnational corporations, but on all kinds of companies – large and small, public and private. “A Treaty was sought which focused on transnational ...; Created on 22 April 2021
11. Australian-Canadian mining company OceanaGold misleads public on Filipino mine: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... OceanaGold’s private security force also used violence against community members. The commission also found that the company had erected fences and checkpoints on roads used by locals, as well as using ...; Created on 22 April 2021
12. What Salvadoran Activists Can Teach Us About Building Coalitions: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... fight. A corollary of this lesson: Some in the private sector can emerge as comrades in a struggle that many perceive as anti-corporate. Granted, the water defenders in El Salvador had an advantage over ...; Created on 05 April 2021
13. Canadian Mining Companies Are Devastating The Global South: (Mining and Human Rights); ... court by Guatemalan plaintiffs who alleged the company’s private security were guilty of negligence and battery when they attacked and injured peaceful protesters at a mine operated by a subsidiary of ...; Created on 21 January 2021
14. From dreams of gold to organic agriculture: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... in the area and private vehicles cannot travel because the street is under repair. María, a retired teacher, says that her family traditionally produces basic grains because the soil has an abundance ...; Created on 05 January 2021
15. Honduran justice denies defenders of the Guapinol river to wait for their trial in freedom: (Regional News); ... judge of the city of Tocoa, Zoe Guifarro, who declared the request to review preventive detention measures inadmissible, which implies the denial of the request made by the private defense, which is composed ...; Created on 28 December 2020
16. 2020 in Review: Latin America and Investment Arbitration: (ISDS); ... awards, in order to increase the value of certain contracts and, hence, increase the company’s profits. In response to this ploy, public and private entities in Peru have endeavored to develop a means ...; Created on 19 December 2020
17. Reclaim Your Rights: Defend Indigenous People’s Lands: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... access to food and livelihood became everyday challenges. And while the mobility of indigenous villages are limited, there are no breaks for extractives, logging, government and private projects, and militarization in ...; Created on 17 December 2020
18. A Canadian Mining Giant Is Quietly Ramping Up Work in New Zealand. Locals Are Worried: (OceanaGold); ... Wharekirauponga (WKP), in the Coromandel, where it purchased rights to mine and explore in 2016. The mining company has already started working on the tunnel on private farmland, even though it hasn’t ...; Created on 17 December 2020
19. U.S.-Backed ANDA Appointment Threatens the Salvadoran People’s Water Resources: (Water Crisis El Salvador); ... But in 2013, the U.S. Embassy in El Salvador pressured for a new round of privatizations through a Public Private Partnership Law, which the U.S. required El Salvador to adopt in order to receive $277 ...; Created on 01 December 2020
20. Mining Injustice Through International Arbitration: (ISDS); ... Republic Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA-DR). In Guatemala, the U.S. mining firm Kappes, Cassiday & Associates (KCA) relied on repression by private and state security forces to overcome years of local resistance ...; Created on 21 October 2020

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