... 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 ...
... to protect the rights of Indigenous communities, and the commission retracted it in 2011.
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... territory surrounding the mining project. We have recommended a thorough, prompt and impartial investigation of the human rights abuses by military police and paramilitary forces against human rights defenders ...
... company that owns the mine, scheduled a meeting with Cerro Blanco residents on May 1 to announce not only its reactivation, but also a change of plans: the project will change from an underground mine ...
... gold and copper mine have lost their jobs during the first round of permanent layoffs conducted by OceanaGold.
Along with the termination of direct employees, approximately 400 people working with contractors ...
... resources and leave others in the ground. Due to climate science if not solidarity, the prospects of local communities and activists for notching environmental wins against wealthy and well-connected companies ...
... 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, ...
... multinational miner” and that it had the strong endorsement of residents in local communities in and around the mine, including Indigenous people.
In fact, the mine is strongly opposed by local communities ...
... Salvador. The authors describe Pac Rim “as one entity operating in its Canadian headquarters, as a Cayman Island shell company, and on the ground in El Salvador.”
At that time, there were no mines active ...
... has a great deal to teach people around the world struggling to save their communities from corporate predators—whether they are mining corporations, or Amazon, Walmart, Google, ExxonMobil, or the titans ...
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While mining pits would be enlarged, the company also plans to dig an underground mine, a new feature. That would be up to 1,314 feet below the surface. The company’s mill operations also would become ...