Semana de acción internacional para defender la prohibición minera en El Salvador y exigir la liberación de los cinco Defensores de Santa Marta
Mientras organizaciones sociales en El Salvador celebraron ...
Raul Moreno, 2005, Brot Foundation
The privatization of water in El Salvador would raise tariffs, have drastic effects on the quality of water, prevent the conservation of the resource, and would make ...
Muchas por registrarse para participar en la delegación y por su interés por saber más sobre el tema de la minería en El Salvador. Esperamos que por medio de esta experiencia los participantes desarrollen ...
... human rights defenders, including environmental defenders, as they oppose his extractivist economic agenda. The use of hatred by the president is replicated by all the institutions of the state apparatus ...
... a page. President Nayib Bukele, a populist who’s made investment and infrastructure the centerpiece of his agenda, has taken a number of steps that, at least on the surface, look like preparations for ...
... Bukele has shown no interest in implementing pending aspects of the mining prohibitions of 2017, like environmental remediation and reparation for the victims of the mining conflicts."
"On the contrary," ...
... paramilitary groups, including the massacres perpetrated in Santa Marta and surrounding communities, by troops from the Sensuntepeque Military Detachment No2, led by the recently deceased Colonel Sigifredo ...
... water, and ecosystems "is irremediable and irreversible" due to the intensive use of large amounts of cyanide and arsenic to separate the gold from the rest of the removed material.
In 14 years, according ...
... water, and ecosystems "is irremediable and irreversible" due to the intensive use of large amounts of cyanide and arsenic to separate the gold from the rest of the removed material.
In 14 years, according ...
... an effort to provide incentives for artisanal miners to convert to more sustainable occupations, reparations for families that were victims of mining violence have not been issued, no efforts have been ...
... shareholders, BHP and Glencore filed separate lawsuits for the same reason on April 27 and June 1, respectively.
Cerrejón has not been able to work on the northern section of the La Puente pit since ...
... 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, ...
... project.”
What happens now?
Prensa Libre explains (in an article about the start of a preparatory process for a consultation with the community on the El Escobal mine): “Regarding the Progreso VII ...
... others, to halt the Transmountain pipeline expansion project in BC.
The Trudeau government’s pandering to Canadian mining companies overseas runs parallel to its enthusiastic support for resource extraction ...
... of Honduras to "release the eight defenders immediately" and to grant them the effective right to compensation and reparation. The Group further called on the government to "conduct a thorough and independent ...
... has thus far refused to release any details about its communications with Goldcorp, Guatemala, or the commission itself.
Another Canadian court is currently hearing a separate case about a mining firm ...
... territory surrounding the mining project. We have recommended a thorough, prompt and impartial investigation of the human rights abuses by military police and paramilitary forces against human rights defenders ...
... victory was as resounding as it was improbable.
Their victory against such formidable odds also reveals the book’s central paradox. The story’s power derives from the water defenders battling a system ...
... to be developed, so that communities which resist and denounce transnationals like Glencore have protection mechanisms and an effective international path to access justice and reparations. In June 2014, ...
... too much cyanide. The releases also killed water bugs.
OceanaGold’s most recently disclosed troubles follow three separate DHEC enforcement cases involving the Haile Gold Mine.
The agency said in September ...