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On 27 October 2018, some 1,500 police and army officials descended on the community of Guapinol to stop the protests. Soon after the arrival of the police in October 2018, the public prosecutor issued ...
... mining license but orders a consultation. The mine remains suspended due to the ongoing roadblock. CALAS appeals the ruling in October.
2018
January 15: Tahoe cuts 250 jobs at Escobal, blaming delays ...
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The Philippines will again undergo validation of its compliance with the EITI Standard in October 2020. And this time, the commitment of civil society and industry may not be enough to salvage what remains ...
... resistance against one of the most polluting and conflictive industries known on the planet. On October 14, 2016, after seven years of litigation at the International Center for the Settlement of Investment ...
... which extends though the Colon, Olancho and Atlantida departments.
Criminalization as a response to dissent
In October 2018, residents and alternative news outlets reported the deployment of ...
... three young farmers in Masbate province on the island of Luzon, who were killed in October 2017 after they were red-tagged. The three farmers had opposed the Masbate Gold Project, the country’s top gold ...
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On October 4th 2018 in Washington D.C. Cristóbal Yugra Villanueva and Jacinta Yolanda Montoro Flores, accompanied by sister Patricia Ryan, received the 42nd Letelier Moffitt Prize for DHUMA’s dedication ...
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On October 4th, 2018, Puno-based organization Human Rights and Environment – DHUMA will receive the Institute for Policy Studies’ Letelier-Moffitt international Human Rights Award in Washington ...
... Walter Aduviri itself has been somewhat controversial because of his electoral aspirations. Aduviri is a candidate in the Puno regional elections in October of this year. The judges in Lima, the electoral ...
... of their Internet networks.
In October 2015, 12 Members of the United States Congress called upon then interim president Alejandro Maldonado to respect the July 2015 court ruling against KCA.
“The ...
... Giustra.
OcenaGold lost its law suit against El Salvador in October 2016, but there is reason why the company has not completely closed its subsiadiaries Minerales Torogoz and El Dorado Foundation:i ...
... dispute lasted seven years. In October 2016, the ICSID ruled against the mining company and required a payment of 8 million dollars in favor of the Salvadoran State.
Marcelo Rivera, at the time of his ...
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The October 2016 ICSID panel award unanimously stated that the Pac Rim Cayman suit did not have any legal merit. Indeed, the Pac Rim Cayman vs El Salvador suit demonstrates the abuse of “investor-state” ...
... Center for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), a court of the World Bank, which ruled, on 14th of October 2016, in favor of El Salvador in a lawsuit filed by the Canadian mining company Pacific ...
... Canadian based company. The shares were bought on October 2013 after Pacific Rim’s failed to raise funds to continue a law suit against El Salvador. The Canadian company had begun mining exploration in ...
... a week of mobilization for a Binding Treaty about transnational corporations and human rights that will take place in Geneva, Switzerland, from the 23rd to the 27th of October. In parallel, there will ...
P. Cabezas
Members of the National Roundtable Against Metallic Mining demanded the immediate removal of Australian/Canadian OceanaGold mining company of El Salvador after the Attorney General's Office ...
... made history, becoming the first country to ban metal mining outright, after a World Bank tribunal rejected last October a US$250 million lawsuit launched against the government by Canadian-Australian ...
... that nation’s water supply. Who could have imagined an editorial in the New York Times entitled “El Salvador’s Historic Mining Ban” on April 2, 2017?1 The other win occurred six months earlier, in October ...
... not address the reputational risk that the company continues to face.
In October 2016, a World Bank tribunal found against OceanaGold in a seven-year, multimillion-dollar suit against El Salvador. The ...