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21. The Status of Investor-State Arbitration in Latin America in 2021: (ISDS); ... change soon. Chile has recently been threatened by French investors with an ICSID claim over the disruption of their Santiago International airport concession by measures taken in response to the pandemic. ...; Created on 21 January 2021
22. Disputes against governments under investment treaties: a growing trend in the mining industry in 2020: (ISDS); ... actions against investment such as (but not limited to) the revocation or cancellation of a mining licence; a change in local laws; or an export ban. Investor-state arbitration can be a powerful tool ...; Created on 06 January 2021
23. From dreams of gold to organic agriculture: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... countries, Torres´ perspective changed: “Pacific Rim talked about green mining. But we saw that the company was going to benefit from the profits and we were going to be left with the damages to the environment. ...; Created on 05 January 2021
24. 2020 in Review: Latin America and Investment Arbitration: (ISDS); ... court also appointed by the States. As pointed out by our authors, Danny Davila II and Nicolas Borda, removing party-appointed arbitrators is a stark change from typical ISDS clauses and will test the ...; Created on 19 December 2020
25. A Canadian Mining Giant Is Quietly Ramping Up Work in New Zealand. Locals Are Worried: (OceanaGold); ... the frog, but “amphibians are very sensitive to even a very slight change in their environmental factors, so that was thankfully declined,” Macassey-Pickard said. Adams said applications brought forward ...; Created on 17 December 2020
26. U.S.-Backed ANDA Appointment Threatens the Salvadoran People’s Water Resources: (Water Crisis El Salvador); CISPES On September 24, the government of Nayib Bukele named a new official to head the National Aqueduct and Sewer Administration (ANDA), the autonomous institution charged with the management, treatment, ...; Created on 01 December 2020
27. EL SALVADOR - Water recognized as a public good and human right, the satisfaction of the Church: (Water Crisis El Salvador); ... the deputies, the change concerns Article 2 of the Constitution, which establishes that water is a human right. Thus the article guarantees individual and fundamental rights, such as life, physical and ...; Created on 30 November 2020
28. Sakharov Prize 2020: the nominees: (Mining and Human Rights); ... in their demands for free elections and democratic change." Dutch S&D member Kati Piri said: “This nomination proves the strong support for the legitimate demand and aspirations of the Belarusian people ...; Created on 29 September 2020
29. Thousands of Salvadorans endure COVID-19 without running water to wash their hands: (Regional News); ... recognized as a human right in El Salvador, and the country is at risk of drought. Although lack of water regulation and climate change are two of the reasons for El Salvador's overall water deficit, in ...; Created on 11 September 2020
30. Legal Defense: Honduran Courts Rule to Sustain Political Persecution in Guapinol Case: (Regional News); ... we are equal before the law, but in Honduras, that is not true." Despite a supplemental document that the legal team submitted to the Court of Appeals regarding the changes in the new Penal Code, and their ...; Created on 18 August 2020
31. 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
32. REPORT: Voices from the Ground: (General mining reports ); ... and governments are using the crisis to secure regulatory change that favours the industry at the expense of people and planet The report was jointly produced by Earthworks (USA), Institute for Policy ...; Created on 19 July 2020
33. Demand to resume discussion of the Water Law in El Salvador: (Regional News); ... of the General Water Law within the Commission of the Environment and Climate Change of the @AsambleaSV Source: National Alliance against the Privatization of Water The letter expresses "concern" that ...; Created on 03 July 2020
34. Status of the National Alliance against the Privatization of Water: (Regional News); ... and Climate Change of the Legislative Assembly. The objective of the letter was to remind the deputies of the Committee that, together with broad sectors of civil society and its organizations, the organizations ...; Created on 03 July 2020
35. Lack of a Water Law prolongs the historical crisis in the country: (Regional News); ... relation to the General Water Law presented by the organizations, the Legislative Commission on the Environment and Climate Change must be receptive to it. It should not be considered valid that the governing ...; Created on 17 June 2020
36. World Environment Day with nothing to celebrate: (Regional News); ... as water rights, food sovereignty, the effects of climate change and the defense of rights defenders human and the vulnerability of the population to natural phenomena. “Human rights defenders, and ...; Created on 06 June 2020
37. Arrests, harassment of environmental defenders amid COVID-19 Pandemic in the Philippines: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... Environmental Concerns (CEC Phils), Climate Change Network for Community-based Initiatives (CCNCI), Citizens' Disaster Response Center (CDRC), and Philippine Network for Food Security Programs (PNFSP) ...; Created on 21 April 2020
38. Ostúa River contaminated with lead and arsenic from Cerro Blanco mine: (Cerro Blanco); ... as a consequence of the effects of climate change, but as a consequence of the Cerro Blanco Mine, which is 7 kilometers from the village of Pita Floja. Jeremías Orellana, a resident of the area, said ...; Created on 21 April 2020
39. PRESS RELEASE: Citizen´s proposal for a general water law in El Salvador: (Water Crisis El Salvador); ... Water Law in the Environment and Climate Change Commission in the last thirteen years has condemned our population to suffer the increasingly serious consequences generated by the lack of good governance ...; Created on 20 April 2020
40. Civil society presents a proposal for the Water Law in the Legislative Assembly: (Water Crisis El Salvador); ... where water scarcity is most evident due to prolonged droughts, product of climate change. The representatives of the Alliance were received by legislators from diverse political parties, including ...; Created on 20 April 2020

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