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21. Reclaim Your Rights: Defend Indigenous People’s Lands: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... superpowers and the oppressive governments and systems continue to intensify widening inequality. Exacerbated neglect and discrimination to their access to health and basic services has been a grave threat ...; Created on 17 December 2020
22. A Canadian Mining Giant Is Quietly Ramping Up Work in New Zealand. Locals Are Worried: (OceanaGold); ... impossible. Their governments also don’t hold large mining players to account, she said. When Ardern came into power in 2016, she announced plans to end all mining on conservation land. But so far, she ...; Created on 17 December 2020
23. ATM Statement on illegal entry of fuel trucks in Nueva Vizcaya: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... Nueva Vizcaya. This is an illegal act by the mining company, as it’s mining contract has expired more than a year ago, and it does not have any permit to operate from the local governments. Our ...; Created on 28 November 2020
24. Mining Injustice Through International Arbitration: (ISDS); ... tactics to forcibly open mining operations in places where communities have resisted them. First, they resort to repression. Then, if that fails, they sue governments in international tribunals — which ...; Created on 21 October 2020
25. Thousands of Salvadorans endure COVID-19 without running water to wash their hands: (Regional News); ... was never an echo of concern from past governments. Water has not yet ended up serving the entire Salvadoran population.” What is the source of the Salvadoran water problem? Access to water is not legally ...; Created on 11 September 2020
26. One year on and Honduran Environmental Defenders still in jail without trial: (Mining and Human Rights); ... and observers including a group of MEPs. The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights has stated that “governments should release every person detained without sufficient legal basis, including ...; Created on 01 September 2020
27. More ISDS cases launched against Latin American states amid the COVID-19 pandemic: (ISDS); ... lawyers say this constitutes expropriation and is open to ISDS claims. The future More than 600 social organizations have called on governments to block the use of ISDS in relation to COVID-19 measures, ...; Created on 01 September 2020
28. New Report: Mining Injustice Through International Arbitration: Countering Kappes, Cassiday & Associates’ Claims over a Gold-mining Project in Guatemala: (Regional News); ... the disturbing trend of mining companies using ISDS to sue governments when their investments face opposition from local communities. Arbitration suits like this are made possible by International Investment ...; Created on 24 August 2020
29. The Honduran government intensifies persecution against defenders of the Guapinol River: (Regional News); ... a regional pattern of political persecution, where the governments of Central America´s CA4 region (Honduras, Guatemala, Nicaragua and El Salvador) are utilizing confinement measures, in the context of ...; Created on 20 August 2020
30. Pandemic fuels mining extraction in Latin America: (Regional News); ... governments pressured by the lobby of the mining industry seek to silence the protests and use the current crisis to promote changes in national regulations that favor mining activities, at the cost of ...; Created on 09 August 2020
31. HONDURAS: Human rights defenders threatened by armed groups during quarantine: (Regional News); ... is intensifying the human rights crises in Honduras and Colombia," said EarthRights executive director Ka Hsaw Wa. "These governments are wisely protecting the public with measures of social isolation. ...; Created on 31 July 2020
32. Defending Land and Water from Mining Profiteers in the Time of Covid-19: (Regional News); ... water and ways of life. Since the Covid-19 pandemic began, however, governments in country after country have declared mining an essential activity or responded to industry pressure to do so after a ...; Created on 23 July 2020
33. Corporate Lawsuits Could Devastate Poor Countries Grappling with COVID-19: (FTAs & ISDS); ... is a field of law made lucrative by the proliferation of some 3,000 international investment treaties and trade agreements that give corporations the right to sue governments for hundreds of millions, ...; Created on 23 July 2020
34. Anglo American responses to AGM queries raise more questions than they answer: (Mining and Human Rights); ... Quellaveco project, is located. Moreover, many governments seek to emerge from the current economic crisis by expanding and deepening mining extractivism. In the case of Peru, mining has been a priority ...; Created on 22 July 2020
35. The state of Siege in Izabal and Alta Verapaz: shelters, poppies, and the fear of repression: (Regional News); ... department of Alta Verapaz. The government's justification for decreeing the state of Siege is that the presence of organized crime groups carrying out illicit activities such as drug trafficking, illegal ...; Created on 22 July 2020
36. REPORT: Voices from the Ground: (General mining reports ); ... Mining companies are ignoring the real threats of the pandemic and continuing to operate, using any means available Governments around the world are taking extraordinary measures to shut down legitimate ...; Created on 19 July 2020
37. With Passage of NAFTA 2.0, Congress Boosts Fossil Fuel Polluters, Particularly in Mexico: (FTAs & ISDS); ... aspects of the original NAFTA was that it allowed private corporations to sue governments in international tribunals, demanding compensation for alleged violations of a wide range of investor “rights.” ...; Created on 03 May 2020
38. Guatemalan Water Protectors Persist, Despite Mining Company Threats: (Regional News); ... Latin America and around the world. Indigenous people and affected communities face many reprisals for their resistance, including a mounting number of arbitration suits against their governments from ...; Created on 03 May 2020
39. Arrests, harassment of environmental defenders amid COVID-19 Pandemic in the Philippines: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... Gloria, there are at least 51 political prisoners previously working in environmental defense remaining in prison. This is despite the appeal of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights on world governments ...; Created on 21 April 2020
40. International report finds that the Honduran government violates the rights of Tocoa's environmental defender: (Regional News); ... the local oligarchy that has controlled post-coup governments are at the roots of the current conflict in Bajo Aguan. According to the study, successive governments have deepened neoliberal policies, ...; Created on 20 April 2020

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