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1. NEW BOOK: Rethinking Bilateral Trade Agreements: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); Republished from Both ENDS See chapter on "ISDS, Extractive Industries and the Pacific Rim vs El Salvador case" on page 231, written by Sarah Anderson and Manuel Perez Rocha from the Institute for Policy ...; Created on 11 May 2016
2. New Study Shows Dangers of Trade Agreements that Help Corporations Sue Govenments: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); By Robin Broad and John Cavanagh First published in http://tinyurl.com/lntc9dh As the Obama administration negotiates new trade agreements with European and Pacific nations, a battle has emerged over ...; Created on 25 March 2014
3. Fixing Free Trade Agreements: Putting People and the Planet over Corporate Profit: (FTAs & ISDS); Fixing Free Trade Agreements: Putting People and the Planet over Corporate Profit Today's trade rules are not designed first and foremost to protect workers, the environment or public health. They ...; Created on 05 March 2012
4. Is El Salvador preparing to reverse its landmark mining ban?: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... government has created a new agency to oversee extractive industries and begun looking into international agreements that facilitate investment in precious metals. Five “water defenders,” who have spent ...; Created on 03 April 2023
5. Public statement of the Local Governments of Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador, members of the Lempa River Trinational Border Association, regarding the “Cerro Blanco” mining project, developed by the ...: (Cerro Blanco); ... the population, in compliance with: i. Human rights, and international agreements and treaties; by not authorizing the mining exploitation of the “Cerro Blanco” project, owned by BLUESTONE RESOURCES ...; Created on 12 June 2022
6. PRESS RELESE: Environmental Organizations Dennounce Privatization of Water in El Salvador: (Media Releases); ... population and the supply for industrial use, risking that supply systems prioritize the latter. The law does not solve the injustice generated by the agreements signed between ANDA and construction ...; Created on 23 December 2021
7. El Salvador: Metallic Mining Threatens Again: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... regulations, instructions, resolutions, standards, agreements and other general provisions […] will remain in force […] while they are not expressly repealed or modified”. This ambiguity clearly opens ...; Created on 14 December 2021
8. In Guatemala, Harris Should Address U.S. Policies That Put Corporations Over People: (Mining and Human Rights); ... of free trade agreements, bilateral investment treaties, national investment laws, and contracts around the world enables. As an enforcement mechanism for protecting investor rights, ISDS has principally ...; Created on 07 June 2021
9. Mining is not ‘recovery’: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... the ban on new mining agreements. On the heels of his order — EO 130 — came two announcements for the renewal of two agreements with large mining corporations: OceanaGold in Didipio, Nueva Viscaya, and ...; Created on 02 June 2021
10. Green group supports ban on open-pit mining, protection of 'no mining zones: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... Last month, President Rodrigo Duterte lifted a nine-year moratorium on new mining agreements to allow in investments and boost government revenues. But environmental groups said the move was one of the ...; Created on 27 May 2021
11. First Pre-Consultation Meeting with the Xinka People on the Escobal Mine: (Mining and Human Rights); ResistEscobal Indigenous Xinka authorities and the Ministry of Energy and Mines establish initial agreements regarding the pre-consultation process The first pre-consultation meeting concerning ...; Created on 26 May 2021
12. Scientists, fishers say new mining deals to cause more damage than good: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... the moratorium on making new mining agreements in the Philippines purportedly to stimulate its ailing economy during the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. Last week, the Mines and Geosciences Bureau of the ...; Created on 24 May 2021
13. Canada’s Mining Industry Is Spreading Havoc Around the World — With Justin Trudeau’s Support: (Mining and Human Rights); ... that being associated with the Government of Canada abroad brings.” The Liberals also seem happy to rubber-stamp Foreign Investment Promotion and Protection Agreements (FIPAs), which are designed to ...; Created on 07 May 2021
14. Environmental activists are being killed in Honduras over their opposition to mining: (Regional News); ... to guarantee impunity for those persecuting defenders. The United States and Canada play a key role in the current crisis. They have geostrategic and economic interests in Honduras, through trade agreements ...; Created on 06 May 2021
15. Swiss mining transnational Glencore in the Andes: (General mining reports ); ... for its part has only said that the purchase agreements between its subsidiary and the cooperatives are subject to a due diligence requirement that includes safety and the risk of child labor. Bolivian ...; Created on 22 April 2021
16. ‘Complete turnaround’: Philippines’ Duterte lifts ban on new mining permits: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... agreements that will maximize government revenues and share from production, including the possibility of declaring these areas as mineral reservations to obtain appropriate royalties, in accordance to ...; Created on 15 April 2021
17. A Private Government in Honduras Moves Forward: (Mining and Human Rights); ... to create a global market of private governments. However, internal disagreements and public controversies over government corruption, drug trafficking, and electoral fraud slowed the project. Government ...; Created on 15 February 2021
18. Canadian corporate greed on display in Mexico mining dispute: (Regional News); ... In April 2014, as talks to renew their agreements with Goldcorp reached an impasse, they held a 33-day strike. This time, the mine has been stopped for almost 80 days. Carrizalillo is roughly half a ...; Created on 28 November 2020
19. Mining Injustice Through International Arbitration: (ISDS); ... can overrule or punish governments that fail to meet the demands of these corporations. Arbitration suits like this are made possible by international investment agreements, such as the Central America-Dominican ...; Created on 21 October 2020
20. New Report: Mining Injustice Through International Arbitration: Countering Kappes, Cassiday & Associates’ Claims over a Gold-mining Project in Guatemala: (Regional News); ... Agreements, and are disproportionately brought against governments in the Global South, especially Latin America. The report’s examination of KCA’s lawsuit exposes a supranational arbitration system that ...; Created on 24 August 2020

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