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,...
Miguel SOTO Director of Strategic Engagement and Advocacy Campaigns, Project on Organization, Development, Education and Research (PODER) Overview Thank you John for this invitation and thank you all of you for coming...
40.2 mil millones de pesos es lo que el Servicio de Administración Tributaria (SAT), condonó a las 41 empresas más beneficiadas por los perdones impositivos entre 2007 y 2015. Entre esas 41 firmas, se encuentran desde...
Mexico City, November 30, 2018.- Thelma Moiza, representative of the Río Sonora Watershed Committees (CCRS by its Spanish acronym) and resident of the affected community of Bacánuchi, participated, this week, in the UN...
Mexico City, May 23, 2017.– A coalition of civil society organizations has requested that U.S. and Canadian securities regulators investigate whether Canadian-based company, Almaden Minerals, violated the disclosure...
CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANIZATIONS REQUEST INVESTIGATIONS OF ALMADEN MINERALS IN THE U.S. AND CANADA FOR CONCEALING INFORMATION FROM INVESTORS - The Canadian company breached the disclosure requirements of financial...
ALMADEN MINERALS LISTS NEW SHARES TO FINANCE MINING ACTIVITY IN PUEBLA, WITHOUT OBTAINING EXPLORATION PERMIT - Communities affected by the mining project report that the company has omitted information from investors...
The gold and silver open pit mine IXTACA PROJECT, on its advanced exploration stage, is located in the Ixtacamaxtitlán municipality, in the SIERRA NORTE region of the Mexican State of PUEBLA. It occupies the...
THIS COMMUNITY-LED HUMAN RIGHTS IMPACT ASSESSMENT (HRIA) AIMS TO IDENTIFY, MEASURE, AND PREVENT THE IXTACA PROJECT’S NEGATIVE IMPACTS ON HUMAN RIGHTS. More specifically, the HRIA demonstrates the discrepancy between...
CIVIL SOCIETY WARNS OF OMISSIONS IN THE CREATION OF THE NATIONAL BUSINESS AND HUMAN RIGHTS PROGRAM IN MEXICO • The Mexican Government ignored recommendations from the Civil Society Focal Group on Business and Human...
Recommendations to the Mexican Government in relation to the National Baseline Assessment for the implementation of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights in Mexico This document contains...
National Baseline Assessment for the implementation of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights in Mexico The present study identifies the policy criteria in the field of business and human rights that...