... necessity and proportionality, essential in a democratic society ”. In this sense, the rule should be the liberty of the person prosecuted while resolving their criminal responsibility.
The organization ...
... step is to replicate the national level multi-stakeholder conversation and disclosure at the sub-national or local level to also cover the small-scale mining industry. The stakeholders from civil society ...
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In addition to direct criminalization against organizations and social leaders, governments have progressively restricted the margins of action of civil society in the exercise of their rights, through ...
... Institute Justice Team (USA)
Sister Parish of First United Methodist Church, Decorah IA (USA
Sister Parish Inc. (USA)
US. - El Salvador Sister Cities (USA)
Washington Ethical Society / Global Connections ...
... civil society organizations, urges the Supreme Court to annul the sentence against Walter Aduviri. Aduviri was sentenced to 7 years in prison and ordered to pay more than USD$600,000 in damages, for alleged ...
... and to intimidate organized civil society.
Enemies of the State
“In Peru,” says Tomas Medina Mamanchulla, President of the Jatuncachi peasant community in Puno, "there are laws to criminalise popular ...
... civil society continue to be essential. Community-level organisations and groups play an essential role in voicing out resistance. In Cabanas in El Salvador, the grassroots media group Radio Victoria has ...
... Morales also noted “new threats on the horizon that put at risk democratic aspirations, social justice, and the search for an ecologically sustainable society for the Salvadoran people.” Chief among ...
... students and Salvadoran society in general to join in one voice to fight until a General Water Law that guarantees Public Management, community participation, sustainability and the human right to water ...
... government, the Catholic church and civil society organizations that have taken their battle back to the streets, suggest that privatization won’t be easy task for ARENA.
The month of June has seen new ...
... its forms, civil society organisations carried out popular consultations in at least four municipalities, under the Municipal Code.
For now there is no need for further consultations, as the law banned ...
... society and the private sector. “It’s a matter of consensus,” he explains. The proposal, now up for debate in Congress, is supported by the Archdiocese of San Salvador and by the Attorney General’s Office ...
... and civil society. The battle against all forms of metallic mining is not over in El Salvador. The rapidly changing political situation represents a danger for environmental organizations that fought and ...
... struggle carried out for 12 years by various organized expressions of society that raised their voices against metallic mining. However, irreparable damage was done with the murder of Dora Sorto, who opposed ...
Rufo Valencia - Radio Canada International
Manuel Perez Rocha interviewed by Radio Canada International. Click here to hear the interview.
One year ago, an international coalition of civil society organizations, ...
... of involvement of the society, this Binding Treaty will be an instrument to ensure that the communities will have access to it”, affirmed Vidalina. Moreover, she adds that “It will be essential that we ...
... named the “comprehensive water law” claiming that they had the support of wide sector of business, government and civil society organizations and publicly asking the legislature to expedite the approval. ...
... of the proposed General Water Law submitted by civil society organizations in 2006.
In the letter submitted, they demand that the discussion of two previous proposals presented by civil society organizations ...
... that the university began, two years ago, to develop a proposal for a bill prohibiting metallic mining. After a lengthy process of consultations with civil society organizations and other key actors, the ...
... civil society perspective, municipal referendums have served as an empowering device for communities all across El Salvador. As with the anti-mining law that just passed, the citizens of El Salvador have ...