... movements have lost similar battles all over the world, so what else was critical to their achievement? One factor was La Mesa’s education campaigns, which creatively spread the word on the science of ...
“What is Happening to Canada’s Good Name?”
As Pacific Rim pushes forward with its law suit for $77 million against the Salvadoran government, environmental, policy and trade organizations visited the ...
What the 2012 Elections Mean for Mining in El Salvador
March 2012
Changes to the political power dynamics of El Salvador, some surprising and some expected, after the March 12th elections for Representatives ...
... of Santa Marta.
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... role in securing a historic mining ban in El Salvador have been detained accused of civil war era and gang-related crimes, in what rights groups fear is a ruse to restart mining.
Miguel Ángel Gámez, ...
... also arrested several anti-mining activists on what critics say are dubious charges. Five “water defenders,” who led the charge on the 2017 mining ban — and who had begun to speak out again last year — ...
... stop discrediting, stigmatizing, and persecuting organized communities and their organizations. We also ask the International Community to be attentive to what is happening in the country to make statements ...
... been one of the voices that have warned about what is happening in Honduras: the dispossession of the ancestral territories of indigenous peoples and what she considers to be the genocide of the Garifuna ...
... spoke of a particular project.
Cardinal Rosa Chávez said he did not know the content of the project, but hopes that "what has been done so far will be taken into account", and described the way in which ...
... in Guatemala, nor did it ever obtain a construction permit to build its mine in the first place.
Such injustice is precisely what the Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) framework enshrined in thousands ...
... Sagittarius Mining Inc. (SMI) in Tampakan, South Cotabato.
These developments are disconcerting, for they are the exact opposite of what “recovery” should look like. If there’s anything this pandemic ...
... with which we started will continue at coming meetings. What we seek, what brings us here to the consultation in good faith, is the right to self-determination of our people and the right to consent… We ...
... West Philippine Sea.
Pass ‘green’ recovery measures instead
Kalikasan PNE urged the government to enforce what it called a “green recovery policy,” instead of reviving pro-mining measures.
The group ...
... Resistance of La Puya (La Resistencia Pacifica La Puya) reaffirms its commitment to peaceful struggle in the defence of life, nature, and land.
We call on the population to be on guard against whatever ...
... Convention 169.
Even after the eviction in 2014 and the court ruling in 2016, members of La Puya continued a 24-hour presence in opposition to the mine.
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... doing what’s needed to protect human and environmental rights will welcome this legislation,” said Hassan Yussuff, President of the Canadian Labour Congress. “Those that aren’t will now be held accountable ...
... can do whatever they want.”
He said that the ruling class – which controls government institutions, police, and the military – provide mining companies protection. “They work in concert to realize corporate ...
... Swiss activist Stephan Suhner, member of the Swiss-Colombian Working Group Ask!, told us that “civil society organizations in Switzerland had been observing for several years what the Swiss government ...
... That same month, Duterte lifted an oil exploration moratorium in what the Philippine government calls the West Philippine Sea, an area it claims in the South China Sea.
These government decisions boosted ...
... thought we’re just ignorant farmers with big hats who don’t know what we’re doing.”
Unfortunately, there is something of that same assumption lurking in The Water Defenders. The insistence on repeating ...