The Nation
Robin Broad and John Cavanagh
In March 2017, people from poorer communities across El Salvador stood up to corporate power and convinced their legislature to make their country the first ...
... to an Oxfam America study, Dirty Metals, "When it comes to toxic emissions, metal mining is one of the leading industries."
Given this reality, broad based social coalitions, together with the Catholic ...
... from Peru, Bolivia and Haiti shared their perspectives on the constant mobilization for the defense of natural goods and proposed strategies for extending long term collaborations with antimining coalitions ...
Andrés McKinley - UK LAB
On March 29th, 2017, the small country of El Salvador became the first nation in the world to exercise its sovereign right to say “no” to metallic mining after carefully analyzing ...
... clean, accessible and affordable drinking water and sanitation for all”.
Members for the Environmental Alliance - a hub for diverse environmental coalitions that seek a green agenda for El Salvador- ...
... coalitions and grass roots organizations have been working for the past decade to address the freshwater crisis in one of most water-stressed countries in the world,” said Meera Karunananthan, international ...
... a landmark in a changing tide. It is why coalitions of people affected by corporate human rights violations celebrated as 20 governments voted in favour of a resolution to establish an open-ended intergovernmental ...
... put forwards by environmentalists during the consultations.
National movements such as the Environmental Alliance,an umbrella organization for diverse environmental coalitions in El Salvador, became ...
... environmental coalitions, has publicly announced its new campaign to pressure decision makers. It will be calling on voters not to vote for candidates who don’t support and promote the anti-mining ban ...