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Every year the inhabitants of the communities of Santa Rosa, Trinidad and La Maraña in the Department of Cabañas, fervently commemorate the life of land defenders Ramiro Rivera, Marcelo Rivera ...
By Marina Bonetti
Communities and organizations gathered in front of the World Bank in San Salvador to demand a fair verdict on the lawsuit of Pacific Rim vs El Salvador.
After days of uninterrupted ...
The Salvadoran Government Proposes Suspending Mining in El Salvador
On August 7th, the Ministry of the Environment (MARN) and the Ministry of the Economy (MINEC) presented a bill to the Legislative Assembly ...
Pac Rim Announces Pending ICSID Decision, the Social Movement
Responds
Monday April 30, Pacific Rim announced in a press release on MarketWatch that the company had been informed by the ICSID that ...
... Bukele has shown no interest in implementing pending aspects of the mining prohibitions of 2017, like environmental remediation and reparation for the victims of the mining conflicts."
"On the contrary," ...
... and sanitation as a right is also pending in the Legislative Assembly. The provision, approved by the previous legislature, requires 56 votes to enter into force (see Fides, 17/10/2020). Hundreds of Salvadorans ...
... the Guatemalan government. In addition to claims regarding government security, KCA is also retaliating against the court’s decision suspending the mine. The company argues that it is being discriminated ...
... country.
The potential entry of 291 mining projects also spells “doom” to affected communities of farmers, fishers and indigenous peoples, according to Pamalakaya.
“This is an impending environmental ...
... mine in Guatemala where a court-ordered consultation with the Indigenous Xinka People is pending. Pan American Silver’s continued interference at the local level is seen by the Xinka as an act of bad faith ...
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Aside from its pending FTAA renewal, OceanaGold has also been facing opposition from the local government unit (LGU) of Nueva Vizcaya for its project.
In 2019, Nueva Vizcaya Governor Carlos Padilla ...
... to clear ancestral domain lands for mining companies, particularly small-scale Chinese firms with pending mining applications. Since 2000, Chinese investments in the Philippine mining sector have been ...
... and muscle weakness, depending on the amount of exposure and the form of mercury, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Babies are particularly vulnerable. Mercury in high doses has caused ...
... coast and a cacao plantation located in its northeast.
Colombia. Around 15 Investor-State cases are pending against Colombia. These arbitrations relate to disputes over the construction and maintenance ...
... in its conduct of a field-based investigation without the Ancestral Domain Office (ADO) final decision. This was over the tribe’s pending Certificate of Ancestral Domain Title (CADT) application over the ...
... fertilizers (as part of the practices of traditional agriculture), I would not have been able to do this, because I would be spending money on the chemicals used to grow the vegetables”.
For María Dubón, ...
... million Indigenous Peoples depending on Amazon forest faces the attacks of criminal groups and illegal miners.
The oil spill in Coca and Napo river in Ecuador affecting 200,000 Kichwa and Shuar people ...
... water supplies have been depleted and contaminated by arsenic and other heavy metals. Families in the community report spending upwards of $6,300 CAD a year on bottled water for drinking and bathing.
A ...
... its operation in Nueva Vizcaya but it still has pending application to renew its financial and technical assistance agreement (FTAA).
Due to extensive excavations and harmful wastes by the mining company, ...
... Pajak and Paweł Preneta, Kamil Maczuga founded in 2019 the website Atlas of Hate, mapping and monitoring the many local Polish municipalities that had adopted, rejected or had pending “anti-LGBTI resolutions’’ ...
... and to suspend all existing ISDS cases during the pandemic.
Countries in Latin America and the Caribbean have so far been ordered to pay US$31 billion and face pending claims of US$40 billion in the ...