... by transnational corporations.
Violations of human rights and the rights of peoples and nature have become inherent to transnational corporations’ operations and can only be equated with their growing ...
... our ecosystems and the rights of nature to reproduce water.
- How should water be managed?
Water management should be done in a participatory manner at local and national level, with a vision-for watershed ...
... to organize, educate and collect signatures in order to petition municipal councils to hold consultations on mining.
Following the request by community organizations, municipal councils must vote on ...
... contamination, labour and human rights violations. As well as exposing the widespread nature of corporate abuses, the tribunals have also consistently raised the importance of the international trade and ...
... up to six months.
But, the campaign against the company in El Salvador is far from over, an international online petition has already garnered over 170.000 signatures and organizers are poised to reach ...
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The David-versus-Goliath nature of this continuing battle between communities and the government against mining corporations in El Salvador is clearly evident in the ongoing investment case filed by ...
... Las Limas, Llano Verde, Hacienda Vieja and the village, all part of the municipality of San José Las Flores in Chalatenango, who had organized a petition with the signatures of over 500 registered voters ...
... that try to impose their dominion over territories, foretelling the future extermination of indigenous communities, the loss of cultural diversity and the destruction of nature itself.
El Salvador ...
... Environment and Foreign Affairs, we express our concerns about the first signs of what could become public policy clinging to the current neoliberal system that sees nature as a commodity. We refer in ...
... The way our society uses extracted resources, the nature, levels and types of consumption and the non-existent waste disposal practices are not sustainable," Navarro said.
In that sense, Sanchez Ceren ...