... in order to recognize the magnitude of the crisis affecting the population. Yet, this has not been done. In addition, we note the lack of a policy or plan aimed at guaranteeing this human right to the ...
PRESS RELEASE: National Roundtable Against Metallic Mining
For many years El Salvador has faced serious environmental degradation provoked in its majority by industrial processes of big corporations. ...
Economic Growth, “Development,” and the Triple Crisis: Reflections on El Salvador and Gold Mining
Robin Broad
Let me introduce myself as does my business card: I am a professor of development. I am ...
... para derogar la ley.
A pesar de la popularidad del presidente, principalmente debido a su línea dura hacia las pandillas y el crimen, la economía salvadoreña está en crisis y el gobierno necesita desesperadamente ...
... around the world. Together, we can help to raise international awareness of the country’s political crisis and to show urgently needed solidarity with the Salvadoran social movements and the community ...
... there is a humanitarian crisis that is creating the notion that “everyone wants to leave this country”.
OFRANEH was born in the late seventies. At that time, OFRANEH concentrated its fight against the ...
... to deny citizen participation by not recognizing the territorial watershed committee structure proposed by social organizations.
This Law is generic as it does not try to resolve the crisis situation ...
... 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 ...
... Faced with the country's financial crisis, the current administration views metal mining as a potential source of income for a deeply indebted State, and it is widely known that the president maintains ...
... to guarantee impunity for those persecuting defenders.
The United States and Canada play a key role in the current crisis. They have geostrategic and economic interests in Honduras, through trade agreements ...
... take on a more global significance. The climate crisis adds a dose of dread to a question long pondered by environmentalists: How can poor countries and communities protect the environment when the system ...
... also revealed how many governments were taking extraordinary steps to suppress protests in mining contexts, as well as how companies and governments were taking advantage of the crisis to establish new ...
... across the political spectrum?
Luis Parada: In a country like El Salvador, which is a very small country, 8,000 square miles, very densely populated with risks of earthquakes, mudslides and a water crisis ...
... violation. They also stressed that due to the COVID crisis, the release is urgent.
One month later, the Honduran State has not responded. The Municipal Committee, families of the defenders and their ...
... a temporary banking crisis, an electricity-distribution agreement and telecommunications infrastructure. In addition, Colombia is facing potential arbitrations in relation to the suspension of operations ...
... collective and continuous defense of ancestral land and territory, and assertion of their ways of life and the right to self-determination. As the pandemic ravages and the global crisis deepen, the world’s ...
... lawsuits brought before international arbitration tribunals by private companies, claiming more than US$3 billion in compensation.
Citing force majeure because of the COVID-19 health crisis , Bolivia ...
... governments pressured by the lobby of the mining industry seek to silence the protests and use the current crisis to promote changes in national regulations that favor mining activities, at the cost of ...
... social leaders, indigenous and farming communities who vulnerability has increased due to the record number of threats by armed groups in the midst of the COVID 19 health crisis.
"The COVID-19 pandemic ...