... and criminalization against environmental defenders.
In Honduras, repression has intensified this year through protests against the privatization reforms of health and education and the increase of violence ...
... affecting the ecosystems of communities and their environment. Today, environmentalists fear that the newly elected President Alejandro Giammattei will intensify the extractivist model of the past government. ...
... of extension.
While the act mandates environmental impact assessments and compels developers to get consent from Indigenous communities before setting up mines in ancestral lands, activists say companies ...
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Beside the impacts on the environment and to the residents’ livelihood, the People’s Coalition on Food Sovereignty (PCFS) documented cases human rights abuses.
“We have heard accounts of intensified ...
... an example of the tensions caused in Central America by metals mining, an activity that has been ongoing in the area, albeit in a rudimentary fashion, since the time of Spanish colonialism in the sixteenth ...
... the harmful extraction industry.
The report examines all 38 known cases that have been brought by mining companies against governments in Latin America with increasing intensity in the last two decades. ...
... sought the cancellation of all mining concessions in the region and a moratorium on future concessions. The strike in Puno intensified and the government was eventually forced to repeal its decree. The ...
... of greater San Salvador. However, the transnational corporation, Constancia/ SabMiller, a subsidiary of Coca Cola, threatens the aquifer with over-exploitation for the production of beer and more than ...
... their right to their investments through accusing them of illegal mining.
This case in Guatemala threatens to mirror a similar case in neighboring El Salvador.
Canadian mining firm Pacific Rim began ...
... Tens of decentralized direct actions continue to occurr across the country.
All of these actions are coordinated through a newly emerging coalition called the National Alliance against Water Privatization ...
Kakadu is known for both its cultural heritage and its natural features. It is one of a small number of places listed as World Heritage Places for both reasons. Extensive rock art is found there.