... take on a more global significance. The climate crisis adds a dose of dread to a question long pondered by environmentalists: How can poor countries and communities protect the environment when the system ...
... a list of possible suspects this week. A no-drink notice was issued for Waikouaiti, Hawksbury and Karitane on February 2 after it was revealed high lead levels had been recorded in the water supply.
When ...
... Metallic Mining, mentioned other demands from environmentalists to government authorities: “the technical closing of abandoned mines, the closing of artisanal mining operations that are currently operating ...
Marvin Diaz - Gato Encerrado
The criminalization of environmentalists and land defenders was the thematic focus of the fifth meeting of the Central American Alliance Against Mining (ACAFREMIN) in El Salvador. ...
... of metal mining, for our country. This journalistic writing is to remember Dora Sorto, Juan Durán, Ramiro Rivera, and Gustavo Marcelo Rivera, who were the first front line defenders in the department of ...
... it to be installed again", said Domingo Miranda, at the commemoration ceremony of the eighth anniversary of the murder of environmentalists in San Isidro, Cabañas.
Eight years after the murders of Marcelo ...
... and demands the reopening of the discussion on the General Water Law proposed by environmentalist movements in 2006.
“We want to express our deep rejection of the Integral Water Law proposal presented ...
... environmental activists, journalist and members of faith based organizations in the organized resistance against the El Dorado mining project owned by Canadian corporation Pacific Rim.
The project had ...
List of already confirmed actions and events
September 3rd
Press conference OceanaGold campaign launch. LOCATION: San Salvador, El Salvador. CONTACT: alfredo.carias@gmail.com
September 5th ...
As the celebrations for World Environment Day concluded around the world on June 5th, Salvadoran environmentalist were left relishing a rarely felt sense of victory after a demonstration of more than 8000 ...
... often cited by environmentalists is the growing social vulnerability to extreme weather phenomena caused by continued environmental degradation. The country placed number four in a 2012 report by German ...
WaterNotGold tour, November 2013
PUBLIC MEETINGS
SYDNEY:
Lunch with Latin American Solidarity Forum
DATE: Monday 10th November, 2013 - 12 noon
LOCATION: Mision Catolica Hispana, 112 Vine ...
One Year Anniversary of Juan Francisco's Murder
One year ago the body of a student environmentalist, Juan Francisco Duran, was found buried in a common grave. When his body was found, Juan Francisco, ...
10 Prosecuted for murders of environmentalists
According to prosecutor’s hypothesis, none of the murders are linked to environmental activism against mining.
La Prensa Grafica By Suchit Chavez Wednesday, ...
Ruling Rejected in the Case of Murdered Environmentalists
Environmental Committee of Cabañas rejects the ruling in the case of murders of environmentalists
Zoraya Urbina, Diario Co Latino
Tuesday ...
Environmentalists threatened, murdered in El Salvador
Posted Feb. 2, 2012 / Posted by: Bill Waren
Salvadoran environmentalists are fighting for a ban on destructive mining projects in the face of ...
... organizer.
In that sense, a legal precedent established by the Guatemalan Constitucional Court in 2012 may be on the environmentalist's side as it ruled that these municipal consultation mechanisms ...
... year we want to set up a factory to extract coconut products.
In addition, we hope that the first indigenous university with holistic perspective can be installed there, where we will work on the themes ...
... were aware of the impacts that mining exploitation would have on water and the environment in general.
In recent days we have learned that the Salvadoran government has approached specialists from the ...
... of the communities that led to the acts of violence and assassination of 5 environmentalists in Cabañas and the strategies these communities utilized to forge a robust national and international movement ...