... take on a more global significance. The climate crisis adds a dose of dread to a question long pondered by environmentalists: How can poor countries and communities protect the environment when the system ...
... Metallic Mining, mentioned other demands from environmentalists to government authorities: “the technical closing of abandoned mines, the closing of artisanal mining operations that are currently operating ...
Marvin Diaz - Gato Encerrado
The criminalization of environmentalists and land defenders was the thematic focus of the fifth meeting of the Central American Alliance Against Mining (ACAFREMIN) in El Salvador. ...
... Cabañas, El Salvador to plant the seeds for our fight and environmental defense.
Remembering was the key word of environmentalists and social organizations commemorating the tenth anniversary of the ...
... it to be installed again", said Domingo Miranda, at the commemoration ceremony of the eighth anniversary of the murder of environmentalists in San Isidro, Cabañas.
Eight years after the murders of Marcelo ...
... and demands the reopening of the discussion on the General Water Law proposed by environmentalist movements in 2006.
“We want to express our deep rejection of the Integral Water Law proposal presented ...
P. Cabezas
As the world celebrated the conclusion of the COP21 talks in Paris, the somber mood in the community of La Maraña, in the northern department of Cabañas of El Salvador, hardly echoes the cheerful ...
As the celebrations for World Environment Day concluded around the world on June 5th, Salvadoran environmentalist were left relishing a rarely felt sense of victory after a demonstration of more than 8000 ...
... often cited by environmentalists is the growing social vulnerability to extreme weather phenomena caused by continued environmental degradation. The country placed number four in a 2012 report by German ...
One Year Anniversary of Juan Francisco's Murder
One year ago the body of a student environmentalist, Juan Francisco Duran, was found buried in a common grave. When his body was found, Juan Francisco, ...
10 Prosecuted for murders of environmentalists
According to prosecutor’s hypothesis, none of the murders are linked to environmental activism against mining.
La Prensa Grafica By Suchit Chavez Wednesday, ...
Ruling Rejected in the Case of Murdered Environmentalists
Environmental Committee of Cabañas rejects the ruling in the case of murders of environmentalists
Zoraya Urbina, Diario Co Latino
Tuesday ...
... are precarious to start with.” “Water Is More Important Than Gold” The Salvadoran mining ban was instituted in March 2017, after years of lobbying by scientists, environmentalists, labor groups, the church, ...
Mongabay
Maxwell Radin
El Salvador banned all mining of metals in 2017, but environmentalists are concerned that the government is preparing to reverse the decision and bring in international investment. The ...
... organizer.
In that sense, a legal precedent established by the Guatemalan Constitucional Court in 2012 may be on the environmentalist's side as it ruled that these municipal consultation mechanisms ...
... disregard the anti-mining struggle that the country experienced for more than twelve years and for which at least four environmentalists from Cabañas who offered their lives so that Canadian mining companies ...
... of the communities that led to the acts of violence and assassination of 5 environmentalists in Cabañas and the strategies these communities utilized to forge a robust national and international movement ...
... Philippines. The Philippines is also dangerous for journalists, trade unionists, peasants and environmentalists. According to a report released by Global Witness, the Philippines had the highest number ...
... was swift and brutal. It violently broke up the protest camp, militarized the entire region and arrested 32 local environmental activists.
In 2019, 12 of the accused environmentalists appeared voluntarily ...
... Voters of South Carolina, said environmentalists plan to speak out about the mine expansion proposal.
“The conservation community will be weighing in on the expansion permits, especially given the recent ...