... efforts to organize at the community level, they have faced defamation, criminalization, arbitrary detention, physical threats from armed groups and forced displacement.
Internationally, in the ongoing ...
... corporations are no exception. “You’ve never seen them condemn or make proactive efforts to diffuse tension in the area,” Dulce said. “The state security is their biggest investment guarantee.”
Canada ...
... sectors – who are the ones that, at the global and national levels, have led us to this global environmental and climatic crisis – to abandon their efforts to privatize water and their intentions to destroy ...
... Jimmy Morales over to the Court’s rulings on mining projects, as well as efforts by the executive branch to put the brakes on corruption investigations involving high level officials. “We fear that the ...
... our efforts to attain responsible water legislation capable of assuring equitable, efficient and sustainable management of water resources in El Salvador: Right based focus: Water is a source of life. ...
Report by IBON International
"Towards curbing OceanaGold’s dirty operations in El Salvador and the Philippines, efforts of people’s organisations, communities, environmental advocates as well as international ...
... for their reforestation efforts. The firm began its reforestation program years before the mine opened, and was the recipient of a 2009 National Environmental Award for its forestry program from the Philippine ...
... We want our incoming legislators to know that we will double and triple our efforts to make sure they do not capitulate to big mining interests,” commented Rodolfo Calles, National Coordinator of the Association ...
... to accept candidates commissioned by labor and cooperative sectors.
He recalled that privatization efforts in the past, such as telecommunications, AFPs and dolarization have been "technical" initiatives ...
... central government to weaken its regulatory requirements.
But the company’s backdoor efforts failed. In response, Pacific Rim launched a US$250 million lawsuit with the World Bank alleging lost potential ...
... yes to life!” Local efforts were key to winning this hard-fought national consensus.
In the years leading up to the vote, while facing a largely unresponsive government, Salvadoran citizens, with the ...
... and Salvadoran efforts to protect precious water resources from transnational mining companies. Having just returned from overseeing an international delegation in El Salvador herself, Grzyb was able to ...
... to its legal defence, and the chill effect on efforts to get a ban on metal mining in El Salvador during the last seven years are the real price that Salvadorans have already paid for this suit.
The Fight ...
... moved to curb mining activity in the country in the past, efforts by the FMLN to institutionalize a ban have been unsuccessful. In 2008, President Antonio Saca, then of the Arena party, implemented a moratorium ...
* Gloria Silvia Orellana: CoLatino
“Efforts to have a legislative decree that prohibits mining operations and all of its forms have sprung since the year 2006. As a political party we can say that there ...
... El Salvador but does not show any signs of giving up the extractive business in this Central American country.
"The threat has not disappeared yet, they (OceanaGold) continue their efforts to confuse people ...
... on a binding international treaty regulating the responsibility of states (including the state of origin) and enterprises with regards to human rights is so relevant.
The efforts made at the recent second ...
... efforts to build viable alternatives to mining can take root.
At the same time, we’re drawing from this experiences to redouble our efforts on the trade front. We must stop the Trans-Pacific Partnership and ...
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According to Montes, the ruling is “a reflection of the struggle of the peasant and popular organizations."
“The communities have suffered for opposing these projects. Without their efforts, none of ...
... a chilling effect on the efforts of governments to enact measures to protect the environment and public health, including proposals in El Salvador to legally ban metal mining.
The report calls for the ...