... organizations around the world publicly denounced transnational mining companies for ignoring the threat of the Covid19 pandemic and continuing to operate normally. The communiqué, based on extensive research, ...
Gloria Silvia Orellana - Diario CoLatino
Manuel Pérez Rocha, fellow from the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS), participated in the Regional Meeting of the Central American Alliance Against Mining. ...
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VIDEO: On the occasion of the third session of the UN Human Rights Council open-ended intergovernmental working group on transnational corporations (TNCs) and other business ...
Edgardo Ayala : IPS News
Environmental organizations are not dropping the guard in their fight against the operations of transnational mining corporation OceanaGold, which has just lost litigation against ...
... Prominent Anti-Mining Activists
CANADIAN DIMENSION: El Salvador arrests anti-mining activists as transnational companies eye investment
INEQUALITY: Is Mining Money Behind the Arrest of Salvadoran Water ...
... would be a disaster for the nation’s already contaminated water supply. Unlike many Latin American countries that court extractive investments from transnational companies, El Salvador has no metal mining ...
... been used as a neocolonial instrument to discipline and punish governments and peoples in the Global South in order to protect transnational companies over everything else.
Nearly a third of the more ...
... projects that are environmentally destructive and threaten the livelihoods of surrounding communities.
According to ICHRP-Toronto member Angela Asuncion, 60 percent of transnational mines in the Philippines ...
... with corporate greed; a transnational lawsuit at a secretive World Bank tribunal in Washington, DC; violent threats; murders; and, surprisingly, victory. The husband-and-wife duo immerses the reader in ...
... are the most drastic measures used to stop Garífuna organizing so they can eventually hand their territories over to transnational capital.”
Our Garífuna ancestors arrived in Honduras in 1797 and have ...
AFTINET
A new report by the Netherlands-based Transnational Institute reveals a rush of international arbitration cases against Latin American states by international investors during the COVID-19 pandemic. ...
... Carlos Martínez from the Guatemalan Human Rights Lawfirm.
“ISDS is evidence of stark asymmetries entrenched through free trade agreements. While they enable transnational corporations to throw their ...
Deutsche Welle
According to a study from the organization Voces Desde el Territorio and backed by 300 organizations, transnational mining companies are taking advantage of the Covid-19 pandemic to promote ...
... are at far greater risk. They tend to be the host rather than the home country for transnational corporations, and they are more politically vulnerable.
Members of these governments who want to help ...
Terra Justa Aldo Orellana Lopez of TerraJusta joined panellists Carla García Zendejas (Center for International Environmental Law), Jen Moore (Institute for Policy Studies), and Vidalina Morales (Cripdes ...
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Cecilia Olivet, Coordinator of the Trade and Investment project at the Transnational Institute, participated in a 2013-2015 audit of bilateral investment treaties in Ecuador. She points out that although ...
... established in the 1990s, by intensifying investment in extractive industries by national elites and transnational corporations. These industries have established their operations without adequate consultation ...
... a mandate to protect flagship projects, including major mines run by transnationals.
Canadian mining sites, like this one in Siocon, Zamboanga del Norte, have demolished homes and displaced Indigenous ...
... more and more frequently by transnational extractivist companies to demand millionaire payments for the loss of investments from countries, as documented in the Extractivism Casino report, presented last ...
... other international investment agreements, gives transnational companies a binding resource to a perverse international arbitration system known as Investor Dispute Settlement - State-Investor State (ISDS). ...