P. Cabezas
Barely six weeks have passed since the newly elected, right wing dominated legislature took office, but recent frictions between security personnel of the legislature and university students ...
PRESS RELEASE
San Salvador, May 31st 2018. Last week the Environment and Climate Change Committee of the Legislative Assembly moved to archive all files and petitions related metallic mining in El ...
... histap. “Water comes twice or three times a week,” he says. “When I change my filter every few months, it is full of dark, slimy mud.” Like many other families, he relies heavily on commercial bottled ...
P. Cabezas
A few weeks after the first anniversary of the mining ban in El Salvador environmental activists in the country are wondering how long before the ban is overturned.
The ban approved with ...
... the assembly and presented a proposal to prohibit mining.
Two weeks later, in March 2017, more than 30,000 people from all over the country, including many clergy, participated in a massive march led ...
... Violence escalated in June 2009 when community leader and vocal anti-mining activist Marcelo Rivera went missing in the town of San Isidro. His body was found two weeks later, rotting inside a water well, ...
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It is an activism that has brought both death threats and triumphs to Morales, who arrived this week in Los Angeles to receive the Environmental Justice award from the organisation CARECEN in representation ...
... a week of mobilization for a Binding Treaty about transnational corporations and human rights that will take place in Geneva, Switzerland, from the 23rd to the 27th of October. In parallel, there will ...
Translated from Ultima Hora
Carlos Calleja, the candidate to the presidency for the Republican Nationalist Alliance, ARENA party, considers himself to be a true environmentalist and has declared he is ...
... rob this country of its future.
It was the most amazing week in the 12-year history of our struggle. And we owe much of the magic to the governor of a province called Nueva Vizcaya in the Philippines, ...