... care of the environment through her television show G Diaries which focused on environmental conservation, area development, and helping local communities across the country.
“Tireless in promoting the ...
... by rich companies who the government helps to terrorize us,” said Sorto, 28. “Every day that passes we know less about him. He’s weak, he’s had Covid symptoms, we worry about his health and safety in the ...
... a family visit since March. Once a week, their loved ones have special permission to send them a home-cooked meal plus extras like green avocados and tortillas that will help them get through the week. ...
... help. I claim to open their eyes. Open your eyes. All the people who is dying there have the same blood that you have here.
AMY GOODMAN: Minnesota Congressmember Ilhan Omar, who just won her primary, ...
... approaches of mining-affected communities and Indigenous peoples can help us refocus on what is truly essential toward a healthier future for all.
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Jen Moore is an ...
... are at far greater risk. They tend to be the host rather than the home country for transnational corporations, and they are more politically vulnerable.
Members of these governments who want to help ...
... of southern Peru, scheduled to begin operations in 2022. As members of London Mining Network, and together with colleagues from DHUMA (Human Rights and the Environment) in Puno, we helped to submit a series ...
... and forthcoming trade agreements such as the TPP, “The environmental consequences of the USMCA are very real. The deal would contribute to the climate crisis by helping corporate polluters dodge our climate ...
... of relevant, reliable, and up-to-date data help in producing more robust, evidence based studies to support public policy. This brings me to another relevant policy issue.
In 2013, the Philippines joined ...
... Otros Mundos Chiapas that has accompanied the Abarca family all of these years and the Mexican Network of Mining Affected People (REMA by its initials in Spanish), which Mariano helped found. Ten years ...
... it was looking for new mining projects, and that the environmental “trade-off” will help the economy recover. “With (Duterte’s) kind of fascist thinking, there’s no way we can get out of this way through ...
... artisanal mining in order to transition to occupation, naturally with the help of the State. However, this transition was started by the FMLN government and it still constitutes an urgent matter to be ...
... to strengthen existing alliances in the US and to begin to make new ones with groups and organisations that will help DHUMA to strengthen its work in defence of the rights of Aymara and Quechua indigenous ...
... trees providing an important source of oxygen for greater San Salvador, helping to maintain a more balanced climate for the capital city and filtering millions of cubic meters of water per year to recharge ...
Andrés McKinley - UK LAB
On March 29th, 2017, the small country of El Salvador became the first nation in the world to exercise its sovereign right to say “no” to metallic mining after carefully analyzing ...
... to El Salvador in 2015, to invest in the Calleja Foundation and in its program "Cultivating opportunities".
This investment helped Carlos Calleja, the president of the Calleja Foundation, become part of ...
... Before these violations happened, and up to this date, we were not in possession of a judicial instrument that can help communities to access justice and have companies respect and not prey on our rights ...
... help of local organizations, used the community referendum process as a legally binding tool to take direct political action. Since 2014, five municipalities in key mining zones voted overwhelmingly to ...
... of government (and vice-versa), and they were backed by a well-organized set of international allies.
It helped that there was not a strong domestic business lobby for mining.15 It helped that the corporation ...
... of some of these broader struggles helped turn a localised struggle in to a powerful global symbol.
One very concrete result of the extensive international coverage was that it obliged local actors in ...