... for the Development of El Salvador CRIPDES and the Association ADES from Santa Marta.
The mining industry does not provide enough conditions to improve access to employment, food, water and higher quality ...
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Every year the inhabitants of the communities of Santa Rosa, Trinidad and La Maraña in the Department of Cabañas, fervently commemorate the life of land defenders Ramiro Rivera, Marcelo Rivera ...
... to address the impacts of the San Sebastián Mine, located in the municipality of Santa Rosa de Lima, department of La Unión. These recommendations aim to ensure that the appropriate public institutions ...
... from the Guajoyo ad Pita Floja Rivers, tributaries of the Guija Lake located in Santa Ana, El Salvador. According to the testimonies of local residents, Pita Floja is already experiencing difficulties ...
... 2011, Aymara residents, led by former leader Aduviri, rejected mining concessions granted to the Santa Anan Sylver mining project owned by Vancourver based Bear Creek Mining. The Puno Court of Appeals ...
... on June 30.
Vidalina Morales, environmentalist and president of ADES (Association for the Social Economic Development, Santa Marta) points out the need to remember those who were the key to generating ...
... located in Santa Rosa de Lima, La Unión, as the representatives of the roundtable explained, continues to pollute the waters of the local San Sebastian river. As a result, the health risks for communities ...
... been complied with to date.
They argued that persisting environmental problems in the areas most affected by exploration and exploitation activities, as the San Sebastián community, in Santa Rosa de ...
... Alliance of Nevada (PLAN)
Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch (USA)
Rights Action (USA)
Santa Elena Project of Accompaniment (USA)
SERR (USA)
SHARE FOUNDATION (USA)
Sisters of Mercy of the Americas' ...
... such it represents a grave attack on human rights; on freedom of expression; and on social mobilisation”.
The case dates back to 2011, when communities in the Puno region mobilized against the Santa ...
... July 2017 in response to the lawsuit against the MEM.
Located a 75-kilometre drive southeast of Guatemala City in San Rafael las Flores, in the Santa Rosa department, the mine, which started up in ...
... Puno region in 2011 against the proposed Santa Ana mine - an open-pit mining project located near the border with Bolivia. The project was owned by the Canadian mining company Bear Creek and plans were ...
... originate in their struggle to repopulate the town of Santa Marta, Cabañas, at the height of the bloody civil war. Founded by community members on their return from Honduran refugee camps, ADES and Radio ...
... in the department of Santa Rosa.
The roadblock has been mounted by the inhabitants of Casillas, a neighbouring rural municipality, located a few kilometres down the road, and which cannot be avoided ...
...
El Salvador
Association for the Development of El Salvador - CRIPDES
Association for the Social Economic Development of Santa Marta - ADES
Radio Victoria
Association for Municipal Reconstruction ...
... at several levels: human health, environmentally and socially. In fact, in the community of Santa Marta, Cabañas, activists who denounced the intrusion of the Pacific Rim / Oceana Gold mining company were ...
... and a community radio station led the resistance against the mine and its potentially disastrous use of the chemical.
Marixela Ramos has worked for the Radio Victoria news team in Santa Marta for more ...
... in Guatemala; RENACAMIH and COPINH, Honduras, ADES Santa Marta in El Salvador, and the Latin American Network of Women Defenders of Social and Environmental Rights express our concerns about the effects ...
... the country in its favor" said Belloso.
Also, concerns were expressed about the presence of acid drainage in the San Sebastián River in Santa Rosa de Lima, department of La Unión (in the east of El Salvador). ...