... the position of ANEP has logic. Large scale enterprise in El Salvador has not suffered from water scarcity. It has not lived this nightmare. Rather, it has been, and continues to be, an important causal ...
Jeff Abbott : UPSIDEDOWN WORLD
The long-running struggle of rural communities in Guatemala against the United States-based mining firm Kappes, Cassiday, and Associates (KCA) continues in Guatemala’s ...
Mario Beltrán - Contrapunto
Environmental NGOs fear that the approaching electoral season might advance the company´s goals at the expense of the environment.
Environmental organizations are worried ...
Edgardo Ayala : IPS News
Environmental organizations are not dropping the guard in their fight against the operations of transnational mining corporation OceanaGold, which has just lost litigation against ...
TELESUR
For grassroots organizations, the fight to protect water and local communities continues, now on a larger scale.
After El Salvador won a decade-long legal battle against mining company OceanaGold on ...
P. Cabezas
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 ...
... the peoples of the cross-border region, declared the manager of the Mancomunidad, Héctor Aguirre.
The tributary of the Lempa has a route of 422 kilometers and is born in Guatemala (30.4 km), continues ...
... the peoples of the cross-border region, declared the manager of the Mancomunidad, Héctor Aguirre.
The tributary of the Lempa has a route of 422 kilometers and is born in Guatemala (30.4 km), continues ...
... It has been shown and continues to be shown, that women have a lot of inventiveness and capacity to join in our struggles.
It was also shown that international pressure, the permanent accompaniment, ...
... Alliance against the Privatization of Water, the Roundtable of Churches in El Salvador and the Central American University state the following:
The Law continues to harm the rural and urban Community ...
... in the country and, on the contrary, the environmental and water crisis continues to worsen day by day.
In this sense, as civil society organizations that at that time fought for the prohibition of metallic ...
... a basic human right, the current administration continues to prioritize the interests of large companies over the interests of poor communities, approving projects that threaten sites for the recharging ...
... caused by a judicial decision. However, the license continues to be suspended.”
Brief timeline and context
In March 2012 residents from San José del Golfo and San Pedro Ayampuc – an area known as La ...
... interest and profit even in the face of people’s opposition.”
The presence of foreign companies in resource extraction is part of a long history of colonization in the Philippines that continues today, ...
... Silver is not currently extracting minerals at the Escobal mine, it continues to operate in Xinka communities. According to its 2019 Sustainability Report, the company is “engaging with community leaders, ...
... do they support this? If this continues, well, we will practically continue with the same unsustainable logic”.
“It is good that the authorities collaborate with us. We need the help of people from the ...
... operations. This, however, cannot be true given that the community continues to keep watch over the mine gates to prevent such a restart, limiting access during the shutdown to personnel responsible for ...
... all regulations and correct environmental processes," the statement continues. “We have high-level professionals with extensive experience in environmental care issues who work [consistently] with the ...
... prison closer to their homes, but bail continues to be denied and the community activists can expect to spend some two to three years in prison awaiting trial.
At the Guapinol river. Gabriela and Briana ...
... when it has to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic.” A US judge in the District of Columbia rejected Guatemala’s request.
Bolivia
While coping with the COVID-19 pandemic, Bolivia continues to fight four ...