February 21, 2008
Development and Peace participated in the CIDSE Private Sector working group to produce an advocacy document for John Ruggie. Ruggie has been mandated by the UN Secretary General to make recommendations on how to improve the human rights and social responsibility standards of Transnational Corporations, in particular in their operations in the countries of the Global South. Ruggie will make his final report to the UN Secretary General in late 2008. Français disponible bientôt. |
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January 25, 2008
Tells the story of Hondurans' struggle for responsible mining. A report back on our MPs' Fact-Finding Mission on mining issues to Honduras. |
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September 13, 2007
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Canadian and British MPs issue joint statement after Fact Finding Mission to Honduras where they met with representatives of the Honduran Congress, urging them to go ahead with reforms to the 1998 Honduran Mining Law. Their statement recognizes the responsible extraction of natural resources is an issue that concerns everyone, and that it is a debate that transcends national borders. They pledged to bring corporate social responsibility (CSR) issues to the attention of their governments, recognising that effective regulation in Honduras must be complemented by regulation in the home countries of the mining corporations.
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August 20, 2007
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Development and Peace salutes the commitment of its Mexican partners who have travelled to Montebello, Quebec, to raise their concerns about the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP), and its possible consequences for Mexico. |
April 2007
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A group of Canadian and British MPs have written a joint letter to the Honduran Congress, urging them to go ahead with reforms to the 1998 Honduran Mining Law. The proposed reforms set out better standards for social and environmental responsibility, and increase taxes that foreign mining companies would pay to the Honduran State. |
| 19 Bloc Quebecois MPs also wrote their own letter to the Honduran Congress, expressing their own concerns. |
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Development and Peace has been working with its sister agency CAFOD in the UK in support of our partners Caritas Honduras in their work in the Civic Alliance to Reform the Mining Law. For the past two years, this work has concentrated on reforming the 1998 Mining Law, draw up immediately after Hurricane Mitch. 'The Spanish invaders assumed that our colonial possessions were theirs by right, in this case it’s our own government giving away our possessions for free,' commented Cardinal Oscar Andres Rodriguez on the 1998 Mining Law.
After an extremely politicized debate, unfortunately the Congress returned the bill to SERNA and asked this government department to rewrite the bill. Our partners Caritas believe that this is a step backwards. Here is Caritas' commentary on the latest developments on the Mining Law: |
