Este es un reportaje de la Red de Periodistas de América Latina para la Transparencia y la Anticorrupción (Palta) –coordinada por OjoPúblico (Perú), y en la que participaron Perfil (Argentina), Repórter Brasil...
Highlights
Grupo Mexico seeks to prevail against SCJN ruling
The company seeks to evade its obligation to comply with the resolution of additional measures dictated by the Semarnat to protect the healthy environment and the interrelated rights in favor of people, as stated in...
The Gas Industry in Latin America and the Caribbean
The use of natural gas use is a topic of debate. On the one hand it is considered a non-renewable source the combustion of which produces almost 50% less greenhouse gases (GHG) than coal or oil combustion. So in this...
The road to truth after 8 years of impunity in the Sonora River
August 6, 2022, marks eight years since the Sonora and Bacanuchi Rivers were polluted with 40 million liters of acidified copper sulfate from a leachate pond at the Buenavista del Cobre mine, owned by Grupo México, the...
First results of effects on health, environment, economy and drinking water treatment plants in Sonora River
Authorities confirm high exposure to lead in blood and urine in people from all the municipalities affected by the spill.Economic losses due to spill caused by Grupo Mexico amount to 4 billion pesos, according to INEEC...
Ixtacamaxtitlán communities call on Almaden Minerals investors to reconsider their position on the Ixtaca Project
We share the statement of the Union of Ejidos and Communities in Defense of Land, Water and Life, Atcolhua adressed to Almaden Minerals' investors. Northern Highlands of Puebla, June 28, 2021. We, the members of the...
Pharmaceutical companies sold vaccines to Latin American with legal and tax benefits
The mass purchase of Covid-19 vaccines has once again shrouded Latin America in a cloak of opacity. Pressure from the laboratories and government desperation to acquire millions of vaccines in a race against time have...
Affected communities and PODER warn about investing in Almaden Minerals’ Ixtaca Project after the rejection of the company’s Environmental Impact Assessment
Mexico City, February 22, 2021. Following the Mexican Ministry of the Environment and Natural Resources (Semarnat)'s rejection of the Environmental Impact Assessment (MIA) of Almaden Minerals Ltd, the affected...
#Feminists4BindingTreaty: recommendations on the Binding Treaty’s 2nd Revised Draft
Feminists4BindingTreaty: Key Recommendations on the Second Revised Draft dated 6 August 2020 of the Legally Binding Instrument to regulare, in international human rights law, the activities of transnational...
Five strategies corporations use to avoid responsibility for human rights abuses
Nine years after the adoption of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, avoiding accountability for corporate abuse is still very common. Hiding behind complex supply chains, undermining unions,...
New shared leadership in PODER
We are pleased to announce that Elena Arengo will be joining PODER as Co-Executive Director in April. Elena will join Fernanda Hopenhaym in the leadership of our organization, projecting PODER’s institutional strength...