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More than one hundred member organizations of the Alliance Against the Privatization of Water in El Salvador mobilized throughout the country to deliver letters to regional Legislative offices ...
... Development Association of Santa Marta (ADES); Pedro Cabezas from Association for the Development of El Salvador, (CRIPDES) and Saul Baños from the Foundation for the Study of the Application of the Law ...
... made with this firm that has become known for its negative impacts on affected communities and ignoring its international obligations to pay El Salvador,” concluded Pedro Cabezas with the Association for ...
... communities who for more than a decade organized relentlessly to demand a mining ban and their right to determine their form of sustainable development,” said Pedro Cabezas, a member of theInternational ...
By P. Cabezas & Sebastian Rosemont
In response to enormous public pressure, lawmakers have rejected appeals by global corporations and voted to protect the country’s people and water supply by banning ...
... government US$8 million to cover its legal fees and costs. For Pedro Cabezas, also a member of the roundtable and the Association for the Development of El Salvador, CRIPDES, the struggle now continue ...
... we can’t stand by with our arms crossed,” says Pedro Cabezas, coordinator of the mining and human rights program at the Association for the Development of El Salvador (Cripdes), a rural development organization ...
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As the morning sun rises on the town of San Jose las Flores, members of the community prepare for the annual pilgrimage to the Urbina Hills, the site that once was the main exploration ...
... people’s opposition both in its host and home countries.
In the WSF workshop, Mr. Pedro Cabezas of the International Allies to Stop Mining in El Salvador discussed how the El Salvadoran people came together ...
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Anti-mining activists in el Salvador and their allies in the US and Australia demanded on April 28th that de International Center for the Settlement of Investment Disputes, ICSID, release ...
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Anti-mining activists in el Salvador and their allies in the US and Australia demanded on April 28th that de International Center for the Settlement of Investment Disputes, ICSID, release ...
... water in San Sebastian
Before we get to meet the people of Arcatao, Pedro Cabezas and Alfredo Carias from CRIPDES take us for a tour across the small Central American country – as a preparation for the ...
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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 ...
Xenia Gonzales Oliva: El Diario de Hoy / Translation P. Cabezas
Between 2000-2010, 49 exploration permits were approved, they are all currently under an administrative freeze.
49 applications for metal ...
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The Ministries of Economy, Environment, FIAES and the Maquilishuat foundation recently released a report on the environmental legacy and damages to health caused by mining operations abandoned ...
By Marvin Diaz: Gato Encerrado - Translation: P. Cabezas
Various social organizations in collaboration with the Municipality of Arcatao, Chalatenango, unveiled a plan for the fourth referendum on metal ...
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Environmental organizations poised to have a ratification vote before the legislature dissolves on April 30th.
An open letter addressed to to president of El Salvador from the UN’s Special ...
... will be able to sue the Salvadorian state for millions, exploiting a legal vacuum that emerged in 2008,” warns Pedro Cabezas, a representative of SalvAide, of International Allies Against Mining in El ...
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Lack of protections and reparations for those affected by human rights violations in mining affected communities is regretful states the Human Rights Ombudsman of El Salvador.
Several ...