... growth, had violated human rights, and posed a threat to the province’s agricultural activity, the environment, and future generations.
His testimony helped break down the myths of economic growth and ...
... In fact, the tribunal dismissed without consideration the “amicus curiae” intervention that a number of Salvadoran organizations presented with the help of the Center for International Environmental Law ...
... called for the renegotiation of NAFTA to (as he puts it) help U.S. workers.
So far, the media focus has been on Trump's suggestion that he wants to increase tariffs on U.S. imports from Mexico. But NAFTA ...
... of People who would be affected by the contamination produced by the mining industry.
"They helped their colleagues and our country against extractivist companies who want to take over El Salvador's resources, ...
... moved by the pain of those deaths, which is the pain of the organized communities. That was the main thing that helped us prove we were right: we defend life, "he said.
On the "award", lawyer Saúl Baños, ...
... human living; and we met people full of skin sores who told us about their suffering. All that information helped us raise awareness among our population to stop the mine.”
To make it more difficult ...
... referendum day, November 8th, begins for us vote observers at five in the morning. After meticulous preparations of the young voting-helpers, the first village inhabitants can cast their vote in one of ...
... the threat these deals pose to our future, will help galvanize the broad-based public pressure on lawmakers needed to do just that.
- Janet Redman directs the Institute For Policy Studies’ climate policy ...
... The hope is that, following the success of this project, other international organizations will decide to step in and help fund El Salvador in this important process of civil empowerment against mining ...