... fooled by the pretext that reopening our natural resources to large-scale mining would help revive the pandemic-battered economy as it would inflict serious damage than repair.”
Environment defenders, ...
... from Guapinol, Honduras, he has been held without bail in pre-trial detention for more than a year. The incarcerated men were part of a local campaign to protect water sources in their community.
“He’s ...
... project has in mind the use of “surplus water from the Tambo basin in rainy weather.” The company argues that these waters have no agricultural or domestic use and that each year more than 500 million ...
Groups call for the annulment of sentence against Aymara spokesperson in the Peruvian Supreme Court
Puno, Cochabamba, Washington, Ottawa, September 13th, 2018
PRESS RELEASE
More than one hundred ...
... are increasingly casting their gaze, as a clear declaration by mining-affected communities that water is more precious than gold.
It was in the northern department of Cabañas, where safe water supplies ...
... affection. He was the centerpiece of the most amazing and magical week I can remember in 12 long years of arduous struggle. It was a brief moment in time, more precious than gold.
[Andrés McKinley is ...
... and Social Development Association (ADES), who was a key leader in the fight against mining for more than 12 years and had recently been sounding the alarm over Bukele’s attempts to re-open the door to ...
... searching for new ways to earn revenues “thanks in part to its ill-advised embrace of Bitcoin.” The Salvadoran government invested $150 million of its reserves into cryptocurrency, and it is known that ...
... more than 33 years ago during the brutal civil war that claimed 75,000 lives.
Prisoners sat on the cement floor of a courtyard at a prison. Their upper bodies are bare, their heads shaved, and they ...
... Specifically, the water defenders were concerned about mining around the Lempa River Basin, which is one of the principal water sources in the country. It would take more than a decade and several lawsuits ...
... on environmentally destructive metal mining. More than 250 organizations from 29 countries came together Friday to pressure the Salvadoran government to drop the charges against and release five water ...
... and the population.
Fifteen years later, the Ministry received an updated EIA presented by its new owner, Bluestone Resources. The 3545-page update details an open pit rather than a tunnel mining extraction ...
... rights of the population of the region.
iii. Our support for the population of the municipality of Asunción Mita who have organized to reject this mining project by gathering more than 4 thousand signatures ...
... people.
In the last five years alone, more than 50 Garífuna men and women have been killed; 30 have been jailed and 32 have a court order, prosecuted for the alleged usurpation of their own ancestral ...
... El Salvador, there are more than 2,500 rural and community water systems that supply almost 25% of the Salvadoran population. The absence of the State that has historically neglected its responsibility ...
... The struggle led by communities affected by the threat of mining lasted more than twelve years, and this struggle was joined by different sectors of Salvadoran society and the international community that ...
... and access. According to experts, rivers are drying up, the water levels of the nation's most strategic aquifers are falling more than one meter per year, more than 90% of lakes and rivers are polluted ...
... than 1,000 known suits filed have been brought against governments in Latin America. Disputes with affected communities that are resisting mining operations or seeking remedy for harms are most often at ...
... hope that the right to self-determination that we have as Xinka Indigenous people will be respected”.
It should be emphasized that government has taken more than three years to comply with the Constitutional ...
... the environment, social governance. Those are the things that shareholders are valuing more today than ever, and I can say we’ve lived that… at the end of the day, it’s your actions and your real world ...