... Against the Privatization of Water considered the approval of the General Water Law to be of paramount importance, in view of the serious affectations experienced by citizens due to the lack of this vital ...
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. ...
... unfavorable conditions for metal mining, Pacific Rim/OceanaGold has intensified its actions to blackmail the government of President Salvador Sanchez Ceren to cede to negotiations in the case arbitrated ...
... who were arrested in January.
A lack of evidence behind the allegation that they were involved in a civil war-era kidnapping and murder has raised questions from U.S. officials and the U.N. about the ...
... multinational mining companies.
Despite the lack of evidence, the Water Defenders were quickly sentenced to six months of pre-trial detention on trumped-up charges related to an alleged crime from nearly ...
... respect human rights, especially due to the serious doubts generated by the lack of judicial independence and the rule of law by current judicial institutions. We also demand that the process be conducted ...
... but to favor big business.
The statement published by the Ministry of Energy and Mines states that the consultation, which the rejection of mining projects, "lacks a legal basis" and therefore "it lacks ...
... waterways in Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras. But years of frustrations about the lack of information on the project by government authorities and lack of prior consultation by company officials led ...
... been rejected in two occasions by the Environmental Management team of said ministry, as it contained inconsistencies and lack of information. With the approval of the Environmental Impact Study, the company ...
Thelma Gómez Durán | Mongabay
* As of the 2009 coup, Honduras became a perfect political laboratory to destroy the institutions, says Miriam Miranda, coordinator of the Honduran Black Fraternal Organization ...
... 2015 that suspended the mine for lack of prior consultation with local communities. While the seizure order is lifted, the mine must remain closed until a consultation process takes place.
The Peaceful ...
... fundamentally prone to environmental destruction, climate disruption, and human rights violations."
"We also believe that we still lack rigorous economic plans for national industrialization, agrarian ...
... the lack of prior, free and informed consultation.
As a result, Arana insisted on respect for the principle of good faith and respect for Xinka rights as Indigenous peoples “We hope that the good will ...
... points out, the Canadian government is heavily invested in the mining sector, which explains its lack of meaningful action on this issue.
It bears a striking resemblance to the Stephen Harper government’s ...
... then by court order for discrimination and lack of prior consultation with the Xinka people.
Most recently, on April 14, unknown assailants fired shots at the home of one of the Xinka representatives ...
... basis for having detained the defenders and even less so for continuing to detain them. The group took into account that the charges initially filed against the defenders were dismissed for lack of evidence, ...
... technical capacity to regulate transnational companies; or finally because transnationals can easily escape the jurisdiction of the States or incur commercial blackmail, etc. “Due to all this we have to ...
... channeled through “local elites in the artisanal small-scale mining (ASM) firms,” a study notes.
“This support to more mining projects will encourage more Chinese investments to extract nickel, black ...
... sacred Apache lands.
And across the country, the Poor People’s Campaign is uniting many of these struggles with the demand for clean and affordable water for the 14 million Americans who lack it — from ...
... is COVID positive.
In addition, there are at least 15 more positive cases in the Olanchito detention center but the number may be much higher given the overcrowded conditions and lack of prevention measures. ...