April 24, 2019 Today, a letter signed by 227 Guatemalan and international networks and organizations was delivered to Guatemalan authorities and the U.S. Embassy in Guatemala. The letter denounces ...
Statement signals the posibility of achieving a mining prohibition during the tenure of incoming president Salvador Sanchez Ceren
by P. Cabezas
Incoming minister of the environment and natural resources ...
... economic, social and environmental reality of OceanaGold’s Didipio mine confirms the worst fears of the Salvadoran people and government,” said Dr. Robin Broad of American University in Washington, D.C. ...
The MARN confirms the presence of cyanide and iron in the San Sebastian River, La Unión
This weekend the Ministry of the Environment and Natural Resources (MARN) confirmed the presence of unhealthy levels ...
Mining Firm Doubles Up On Law Firms in Quest for Pot of Gold
Sarah Anderson, IPS Global Economy Project Director
Posted: 06/06/2012 5:50 pm
A Canadian mining company has cleared a major legal hurdle ...
... firmados en 1992.
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Como parte de la campaña internacional para defender la histórica prohibición minera y para demandar la liberación inmediata de los Defensores de Santa Marta, ...
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... Ochoa Pérez.
4. This case also confirms the absurd logic of criminalizing the victims instead of prosecuting the perpetrators. The Santa Marta community is a victim of massacres and displacement suffered ...
... Natural Resources. Yet, this Ministry had initially rejected the same environmental impact assessment (EIA) twice due to inconsistent information affirming that there would be no impact on the environment ...
... to investors. That is why we reaffirm that there is a genocidal plan against the Garífuna people.
And that is why we are calling to monitor what is happening in Honduras. People have left the country ...
... metal exploration and exploitation again.
The government has shown little interest to date in environmental issues, and its policies and practices confirm the absence of an environmental conscience. ...
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Despite of the success of the campaign and the fact that the mining prohibition has been in force for the last four years, La Mesa affirms that there has been no commitment on the part of the Salvadoran ...
... they reaffirmed their “rejection of the mining project as destructive and a threat to the life of the population and their natural commons.”
Almost seven years earlier to the day, on May 23, 2014, police ...
... of Australian-Canadian firm OceanaGold in Nueva Vizcaya, which resulted in the decimation of the biodiversity-rich Dinkidi Hill and contributed to the decline of water resources in the area. In 2019, the ...
... Movement Association, when they dispersed people forming a barricade against the entry of fuel tankers into the operation site of Australian-Canadian mining firm Oceanagold in Nueva Vizcaya.
To recall, ...
... 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 ...
... the parties presented, the Ministry of Energy and Mines (MEM) added.”
Prensa Comunitaria notes: “[The Peaceful Resistance] reaffirms its commitment to peaceful struggle for the defense of life and natural ...
... largely a smokescreen.
“It does not have teeth at all,” said Lang.
The office’s operations are grounded firmly in the logic of corporate social responsibility, and leans heavily on dispute resolution ...
JACOBIN
Yves Engler
Three-quarters of the world’s mining companies are headquartered in Canada. Canadian mining firms are mired in corruption and human rights abuses around the world, yet Justin Trudeau ...
... in which to be a defender. 64 community and social leaders were killed in 2019 according to reports from Global Witness, while Front Line Defenders affirms that of the 177 Human Rights defenders murdered ...