... Ordinary People Saved A Country from Corporate Greed, Robin Broad and John Cavanagh tell the harrowing, inspiring saga of El Salvador’s fight – and historic victory – to save their water, and their communities, ...
... of the Health Emergency due to the COVID-19 pandemic that is plaguing the world and the country, water must be considered as a human right and the approval of a General Water Law must be ensured.
In ...
Sandra Cuffe: Mongabay
Legislators in El Salvador made history Wednesday, passing a bill to ban all metallic mining activities in the country.
The results of the much-anticipated vote were unanimous: ...
... for the protection of the health of the population and the preservation of the environment against the transnational metal mining industry in the country.
Guillermo Mata, president of the Environment ...
World Bank, 2009
A summary of the current information related to climate change and agriculture in El Salvador. The Country Note describes the role of El Salvador in mitigation and adaptation to climate ...
... and Natural Resources, at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. He is currently the president of the Salvadoran Ecological Unit (UNES).
"I joined the revolutionary struggle of the country, and was member ...
... legal proceedings against their members and representatives. Santa Marta is an exemplary community that has achieved enormous social development, like no other rural population in the country. ADES has ...
... there is a humanitarian crisis that is creating the notion that “everyone wants to leave this country”.
OFRANEH was born in the late seventies. At that time, OFRANEH concentrated its fight against the ...
... rates of their users, who are often the most impoverished communities in the country.
Although the Law regulates domestic use and human consumption as a priority, it does not regulate how water should ...
... of this organization visited our country a couple of weeks ago and held meetings with different government institutions such as the Ministries of the Environment; Economy, through its Hydrocarbons and ...
... This historic victory of a country known primarily for its worrisome levels of social violence, overpopulation, migration and environmental deterioration, rendered El Salvador the first nation in the world ...
... against metal mining in the country.
After learning that metal mining in neighboring countries had caused environmental degradation, the loss of biodiversity and sources of water, and more importantly, ...
... who promises to redistribute wealth, took a slight advantage over Keiko Fujimori (Fuerza Popular). Peru is a country with 32 million inhabitants.
The Peruvian currency fell back to a record low, weakening ...
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Efenita Taqueban and Gideon Lasco
In the name of “recovery” from the pandemic, the Philippine government has opened up mining opportunities in the country, with the President recently lifting ...
... a country rich in precious minerals.
In a position paper read at a hearing of a panel of the House of Representatives Wednesday, Kalikasan People’s Network for the Environment called for the urgent passage ...
... to the country’s total was 0.95% or an annual average contribution of $39.7 billion from 2002 to 2020. The average annual share of the mining and quarrying sector in the gross domestic product has been ...
... Boxxer Gold Corp.) have known operations in the country, according to Claver. These companies are part of a global mining sector predominantly based in Canada and infamous for unchecked environmental and ...
... nearly 4,000 people are calling on the Vancouver-based company to halt all community activities in the Central American country.
In mid-April, activists delivered a petition to Pan American Silver urging ...