by Maxwell Radwin on 2 August 2023 - MONGABAY
Calls from the international community are growing for the release of five environmental activists fighting water pollution and mining in El Salvador ...
Mining Watch
A petition calling on the Canadian Government to act in response to increasing extrajudicial killings of civilians and human rights defenders in the Philippines will be tabled by the Member ...
By Armando Jacinto : TVES
On February 6th, the Catholic Church presented the Legislative Assembly a legislative proposal to prohibit metal mining in El Salvador.
Next Thursday, March 9th, the Catholic ...
Since OceanaGold acquired Pacific Rim in 2013, members of the the Maritime Union of Australia, along Salvadorean and Filipino residents in Melbourne, have held monthly solidarity actions to demand that ...
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 ...
... turn, it was international organizations who helped members of la mesa navigate the international human rights system and helped to echo the calls for justice to the international public opinion. ...
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The Canadian government’s response to global mining injustice Asuncion said that the Canadian government has used CSR to shift focus away from calls for legal reform. “Instead, Canadian mining policies ...
... That same month, Duterte lifted an oil exploration moratorium in what the Philippine government calls the West Philippine Sea, an area it claims in the South China Sea.
These government decisions boosted ...
... leaders.
In Honduras, Miriam Miranda, a human rights advocate and the leader of OFRANEH, has articulated eight demands, including calls for the return of the five men kidnapped on July 18, that the Honduran ...
... activist denounces the government of Juan Orlando Hernández for having created special battalions of the Army and the police. "He calls them Special Groups for the Resolution of Environmental Conflicts. ...
... in a CALAS appeal against the supreme court decision to reinstate the mine’s license.
March 8: Constitutional court calls for further anthropological studies to reach a ruling on the suspension of the ...
... resume "urgently" the discussion of the General Law of Water.
The declaration recalls that "water is a source of life and a public good, whose access constitutes a fundamental human right", necessary in ...
... General Assembly of the United Nations (UN) designated June 5 as World Environment Day. Since the 1970s, the UN has been developing initiatives, calls, and messages with the aim of raising awareness across ...
... proposal that calls specific attention to the problems of quality and quantity of water resources, as well as consumption, demand and coverage. The poor quality of service is a problem experienced by semi-urban ...
... Secretariat for Human Rights. "They presented us with the protection mechanisms for human rights defenders," recalls Heike Hänsel, deputy from the The Left party and signatory to both letters. "However, ...
... said Pedro Cabezas of International Allies against Mining in El Salvador who organized a protest action in front of the Philippine Consulate in El Salvador.
“We reiterate our calls on the United Nation ...
... water, despite being charged for municipal water.
He recalls his rural hometown, where water flowed from nearby springs and was regulated by community boards. “Where my parents live, the village still ...
... (IPS) was established and to this day maintains regular communication with the Roundtable in El Salvador. The International Allies have monthly meeting calls and major decisions are sent to the Roundtable ...
... and Cabañas have voted overwhelmingly against mining in municipal referendums, the latest of which was just last month.
After a decade of calls for a legislated mining ban to no real avail, the issue ...
... to human rights and the environment that occur when corporations bring a suit to tribunals like ICSID,” explained Robin Broad, professor at the American University.
"A mining company that calls itself ...