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While There is a Slight Increase in Water Quality, the Situation is still Critical
River Water Quality Improves, says MARN
The water classified as “good” in rivers increased 2 per cent, to 12 percent ...
... victims. “The arrests are politically motivated as they seek to silence these water defenders and to demobilize community opposition at this critical moment,” the Institute for Policy Studies, a progressive ...
... civil society organizations, to assume a vigilant, critical, and participatory position in the face of this economic activity that, far from bringing true development, brings confrontations, instability ...
... in their municipalities; 77% believed that the Salvadoran State should definitively ban metallic mining in the country and, despite the critical situation of unemployment in the surveyed communities, 86% ...
... in the mining industry means government policies on dealing with environmental and human rights abuses abroad are critical for regulating the sector internationally,” said Asuncion. “To this date, no Canadian ...
... an international coalition—paid off at critical moments. In October 2016, the World Bank tribunal where their international partners held protests dismissed the mining company’s claims. Five months later, ...
... 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 ...
... movement in Canada must also start to look more critically at issues of resource extraction, and pressure our political leaders to take the steps toward a more sustainable and equitable role in the world ...
... his apprehensions against the continued mining, which included, among others, that Barangay Didipio and Barangay Runruno are sub-watersheds of the Cagayan River and that these are “critical watersheds,” ...
... critical, complaints of mismanagement also rose, which forced Bukele’s government to remove ANDA president Frederick Benitez. Despite his high-visibility mismanagement, Bukele ended up promoting Benitez ...
... political prisoners and others detained simply for expressing critical or dissenting views”.
Trócaire – through it’s partner organisation Fundación San Alonso Rodríguez (FSAR) – has also been supporting ...
... release all detainees without a sufficient legal basis, including political prisoners and others detained simply for expressing critical or dissenting opinions. "
Agro politics disadvantages peasants ...
... is especially critical in Honduras. According to the NGO "Global Witness", between 2010 and 2017 alone, more than 120 people who fought in defense of the environment were killed. For some weeks, this risk ...
... governor stated that Luque will be solely responsible for the region's failure. He added that the current administration is plagued by a series of anomalies for which media are not as critical as they were ...
... Cordillera, said he was targeted for his work as an Indigenous activist, doctor, and politician critical of the government. He resisted many government actions and was part of a group that had been pushing ...
... these, the diverse forms of privatization and water being the most critical one.
Confronting this issue as the National Alliance Against the Privatization of Water, we join the global actions, linked ...
... lawyers who have no obligation to consider concerns related to communities or the environment.
"Through years of advocacy, communities have managed to enshrine critical land rights, Indigenous rights, ...
... critical of the consultation standards laid out in the ruling and what he considered the disregard for the principle of free, prior and informed consent.
“What we interpret is that they maintain that ...
... ecological balance. A particular environmental condition that fueled the opposition to mining is the critical state of El Salvador’s water resources. More than 90% of surface water sources are contaminated, ...