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41. New Report: Mining Injustice Through International Arbitration: Countering Kappes, Cassiday & Associates’ Claims over a Gold-mining Project in Guatemala: (Regional News); ... while riding roughshod over community opposition. KCA knew that, at the end of the day, international arbitration could guarantee them millions in profits,” remarked Guatemalan investigative journalist ...; Created on 24 August 2020
42. Legal Defense: Honduran Courts Rule to Sustain Political Persecution in Guapinol Case: (Regional News); ... in the Montaña Botaderos Carlos Escaleras National Park. To date, the Public Prosecutor's Office has not investigated the serious damage suffered by the young man while they have forged ahead with the ...; Created on 18 August 2020
43. HONDURAS: Human rights defenders threatened by armed groups during quarantine: (Regional News); ... journalists, social communicators and justice operators, while 101 Colombian organizations joined in making the same call to their leaders. Colombia and Honduras are considered two of the most dangerous ...; Created on 31 July 2020
44. Defending Land and Water from Mining Profiteers in the Time of Covid-19: (Regional News); ... such as tuberculosis. While this connection has yet to be well investigated, we identified seven cases in which nearly 250 community members tested positive for Covid-19 and four died. Zoom meetings ...; Created on 23 July 2020
45. Timeline: Guatemala mine suspensions: (Regional News); ... with indigenous communities, a requirement of the International Labour Organization’s convention 169 (ILO 169). But while Guatemala ratified the convention in 1996, industry leaders say regulations setting ...; Created on 23 July 2020
46. Corporate Lawsuits Could Devastate Poor Countries Grappling with COVID-19: (FTAs & ISDS); ... from such claims. “While the future remains uncertain,” states Aceris Law, an international arbitration law firm, “the response to the Covid-19 pandemic is likely to violate various protections provided ...; Created on 23 July 2020
47. Anglo American responses to AGM queries raise more questions than they answer: (Mining and Human Rights); ... of mining projects were allowed to continue. As such, companies like Anglo American have been working with almost total normality while the majority of the population has assumed the costs of quarantine. ...; Created on 22 July 2020
48. Social organizations reject militarization in five municipalities of Guatemala: (Regional News); ... by the company at the time of obtaining the license covered an extension of 6.29 square kilometers, while the Ministry of Energy and Mines authorized the exploitation in more than 247.9 square kilometers. ...; Created on 20 July 2020
49. Environmentalists commemorate the 11th anniversary of the murder of Marcelo Rivera: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... have. While international groups should never have a place to dictate political strategy to local actors, this campaign, started by Marcelo, showed the very effective ways of applying many mechanisms ...; Created on 15 July 2020
50. World Environment Day with nothing to celebrate: (Regional News); ... time for humanity, where countries must reflect and support the need to rebuild a new development model, such as decent housing and access to drinking water, " Murillo said. Meanwhile, Omar Flores from ...; Created on 06 June 2020

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