Project on Trade and Mining
The program works with grassroots activists around the world to advance alternative international trade and investment policies that elevate environmental, human, and labor rights above narrow corporate interests. In recent years program staff have played a lead role in supporting grassroots campaigns in Latin America against global mining corporations’ attempts to steamroll local resistance to harmful extractives projects.
Latest Work
Reports
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Climate Justice, Economic Justice, Peace & Foreign Policy, Racial & Gender Justice
The Dark Side of the Energy Transition: Green Colonialism in Southern Honduras
Multinational corporations exploited demand for green energy to shake down some of the most impoverished communities in the Americas.
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Climate Justice
The Corporate Assault on Honduras
How mafia-style investments undermine the Honduran people’s struggle for democracy and dignity.
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Economic Justice, Peace & Foreign Policy
El Salvador’s State of Deception
A fact-finding report on El Salvador’s detained water defenders, the potential return of environmentally destructive mining, and the state of human rights under the Bukele administration.
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Climate Justice
The Water Defenders
How ordinary people saved a country from corporate greed.
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Economic Justice
How U.S. Trade Policy Failed Workers — And How to Fix It
Now more than ever, we need a new trade policy to support an economic recovery from the pandemic and to start building an economy that works for everyone.
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Economic Justice
Mining Injustice Through International Arbitration
Across the Global South, international mining companies use disturbing tactics to forcibly open mining operations against the wills of local communities.
Project on Trade and Mining in the news
El casino del extractivismo y el arbitraje internacional que permite a empresas demandar a los Estados
Rechazan retorno al CIADI y alertan que la soberanía está en riesgo
Canada’s Mining Firms Are Big Beneficiaries of the Global Order Its Prime Minister Just Criticized
153 iglesias de 25 países expresan apoyo a lucha contra la minería en El Salvador
Over 150 Religious Orgs Endorse Salvadoran Mining Ban Reversed by Bukele
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