... to protect ourselves because if they displace the communities of the Garífuna people, they will disappear. And that is the goal of this government.
One of the big impacts on the Garífuna people is forced ...
... Water Systems. It maintains the privatizing spirit in which it was presented last June by the President of the Republic. It is a Law that deepens water injustice as it includes mechanisms that will generate ...
... mining, we call on the Salvadoran population to be attentive to the proposals that the Intergovernmental Forum on Mining, Minerals, Metals and Development (IGF ) will present to the Government, since a ...
... regulations, instructions, resolutions, standards, agreements and other general provisions […] will remain in force […] while they are not expressly repealed or modified”. This ambiguity clearly opens ...
... report closes demanding that the current government of Nayib Bukele guarantee that the mining prohibition will not be reversed and that the Ministry of the Environment and Natural Resources (MARN), and ...
FIDES
Salvadoran Cardinal Gregorio Rosa Chávez, in his usual Sunday press conference, said he hopes that the initiative of the water law that the government will present contains the progress made in ...
... trading.
"Regardless of who wins, there will be huge swings in Peruvian assets and investors don't want to get caught on the wrong side," said Brendan McKenna, currency strategist at Wells Fargo in New ...
... violently evicted the Peaceful Resistance La Puya, clearing the way for the company to begin operations. Unwilling to give up, the resistance camp resumed outside the mine gates shortly after, but the ...
... has taught us, it is that our environmental and human health are inseparable, and our abuse of nature will come to haunt us, not least in the form of viral outbreaks caused by our exploitation of animals, ...
... by lawmakers from the Makabayan bloc.
“Local 'no mining zones' and a legislated prohibition of the destructive open pit method will allow us to conserve our mineral resources until such time a genuine ...
... the Escobal mining license was held on Friday, May 21 of this year in the offices of the Xinka Parliament of Guatemala. The purpose was to identify the entities that will participate as observers and to ...
... administration of former President Benigno Aquino III.
Creating new mining deals will also spur employment opportunities in rural areas, as well as provide support to its flagship infrastructure program, ...
... doing what’s needed to protect human and environmental rights will welcome this legislation,” said Hassan Yussuff, President of the Canadian Labour Congress. “Those that aren’t will now be held accountable ...
... denouncing the violence. Shareholders asked Winckler if Pan American Silver will respect the Xinka people’s right to a “free” consultation and immediately cease interference in local communities. They ...
... rights abuses and environmental devastation. But they are up against a very powerful lobbying group and a government with very little will to transform the industry.
In 2010, a private members bill was ...
Counterpunch
Jen Moore
In the wake of a shooting attack, death threats, and fear of further violence against members of the peaceful resistance to Pan American Silver’s Escobal silver mine in Guatemala, ...
CNCA
On March 2, 2021, the Federal Court of Canada will hear arguments in a lawsuit that seeks information about the Canadian government’s response to a human rights case concerning a Canadian-owned ...
... almost any country in the Global South, from Papua New Guinea to Ghana, Ecuador to the Philippines, and you will find a Canadian-run mine that has caused environmental devastation or been the scene of ...
The Conversation
Giada Ferrucci
Two men shot Arnold Joaquín Morazán Erazo to death in his home in Tocoa, Honduras, one night in October 2020. Morazán was an environmental activist and one of 32 people ...
... company that owns the mine, scheduled a meeting with Cerro Blanco residents on May 1 to announce not only its reactivation, but also a change of plans: the project will change from an underground mine ...