A new study debunks eight falsehoods the mining corporation OceanaGold has used to try to justify mining in El Salvador and undermine public debate and policymaking. Vancouver-based Pacific Rim Mining, recently acquired by Australian-Canadian firm OceanaGold, has been trying to access●●●
Debunking Eight Falsehoods by Pacific Rim Mining / OceanaGold in El Salvador
Institute for Policy Studies (IPS)
Profiting from Crisis: How corporations and lawyers are scavenging profits from Europe’s crisis countries
Transnational Institute - TNI
Corporations, backed by lawyers, use international investment agreements to scavenge for profits by suing Europe’s crisis countries. While speculators making risky investments are protected, ordinary people have no such protection and – through harsh austerity policies – are being stripped●●●
Calls for a binding treaty on business & human rights – perspectives
Business & Human Rights Resource Centre
At the UN Human Rights Council session in September 2013, Ecuador led a number of governments in issuing a statement in favour of a legally binding international instrument on business & human rights to be concluded within the UN system. The●●●
