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UNHRC moves away from voluntary standards and towards a binding treaty to prevent transnationalcorporations human rights violations
Twenty country members of the United Nations Human Rights Council, ...
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Getting ready for our event- lots of tabling, coffee-drinking, and of course, conversation
At 7pm, Ross White from Cadboro Bay United Church welcomes ...
... to widespread arbitrary detentions and other abuses, according to United Nations experts.
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... industry.”
The Guatemalan Constitution (1985), ILO 169 (ratified in 1996), the Municipal Code (2002), and the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (2007) all recognize the ...
... for the governance, peace and integration of the peoples of the three countries.
3. That the human right to water is a right enshrined in the United Nations General Assembly Resolution number 64 - 292, ...
... based in Washington D.C. in the United States, which for almost six decades has been conducting research and supporting progressive social movements and leaders.
In an interview with Mongabay Latam, ...
... the United Nations’ Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP).
Impacted communities across the world have called for resource extraction projects to be halted, not just “greened.” This ...
... widely as possible".
The Working Group(WG) is a specialized body of the United Nations, composed of five independent experts from different regions of the world, authorized by the UN Human Rights ...
... 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 ...
... who had served as a military attaché to the United States during the civil war, and El Salvador’s influential archbishop, a member of the ultraconservative Opus Dei order. They persuaded the archbishop ...
... the United Nations Human Rights Council adopted resolution 26/9 for the development of a legally binding international instrument for transnational companies in relation to human rights. The objective ...
... would occur at one of the few gold mines in the eastern United States. The open-pit mine is a vast area of gaping holes and cleared land similar in scope to many western U.S. gold mines.
Haile’s expansion ...
... their water from polluting corporations.
In our travels, we’ve seen these fights up close — they’re harrowing, but also inspiring. As we in the United States face similar struggles, we might take some ...
... Witness,” said Patricia Lisson of ICHRP-Canada (International Coalition for Human Rights in the Philippines-Canada). “In 2020, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights issued a report highlighting ...
... assistance to, an alleged drug trafficker who delivered thousands of kilos of cocaine throughout the United States.
In response to the news—which adds to a long list of cases by U.S. prosecutors in ...
... Mine, owned by the Australian-company OceanaGold, is an open-pit digging operation and one of the largest gold mines in the eastern United States, comparable in scale to some western U.S. mines..
Located ...
... the United States and Europe won’t pay attention.
Canada Needs To End These Abuses With abuses by the mining industry being a regular occurrence in Peru, what makes Aduviri’s case unique is that a high-ranking ...
... note that 2021 might be the year that will witness the first case filed under the new United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) that entered into force on July 1, 2020, although legacy investments ...