... is stacked against them?
In The Water Defenders, Robin Broad and John Cavanagh seek answers to that dilemma.
The book chronicles the improbable victory of grassroots activists in El Salvador who ...
... corporations in the United States and across the world.
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A new book, published by Madhyam, Both ENDS and SOMO, aims to encourage the collective thinking about BITS and other investment treaties, and to engage all stakeholders – governments, inter-governmental ...
... de Santa Marta
21 de abril: (FILIPINAS) Campaña de solidaridad en las redes sociales dirigida porPhilippine-Misereor Partnership, Inc. (PMPI). Consulte las siguientes paginas de Facebook: www.facebook.com/PMPI.AMC, ...
... In Spanish and English with simultaneous interpretation. Register to participate here. Confirm and share on Facebook here.
All week starting April 21( PHiLIPPINES) Social media soidarity campaign led ...
... of La Puya as court ruling gives mining company access to the site.
More information, in Spanish, including videos of the PNC entering La Puya, can be found here, La Puya – facebook.
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... them permission to operate in spite of overwhelming local opposition.
Over the past two decades, thousands of articles, reports, documentaries, and books have detailed Canadian mining abuses abroad. ...
... in the town of San Isidro, in Cabañas, by going door-to-door to collect donated books. They built a few shelves in their family’s living room and called it the San Isidro Foundation for Culture and the ...
... the government under the rigged rules that govern investment across borders.
As we describe in our new book, The Water Defenders, communities across El Salvador fought back. They studied the science ...
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A new book describes how environmental activists in El Salvador brought conservatives and progressives together to institute a nationwide ban on metal mining in 2017.
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... who dares to defend the public and common goods of Honduras.”
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... defender member of COPA, Leonel George, also denounced that on April 8, 14 and 25, slanderous articles on his work were published on the Facebook page, 'La Voz de Tocoa y Tocoa Exclusivas'. Previously, ...
... from our natural resources.”
Cullamat knows that her vocal opposition to the government’s mining policies could kill her. She has already been red-tagged by a government official on Facebook, while the ...
... to the people’s objection to this Canadian company’s attempt to extend their plunder of Didipio’s mineral reserves,” said Douglas Booker, General Secretary of the International Campaign for Human Rights ...
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On March 29th, 2017, the small country of El Salvador became the first nation in the world to exercise its sovereign right to say “no” to metallic mining after carefully analyzing ...
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Robin Broad, a professor of development studies at American University in Washington DC, is writing a book about mining as a John Simon Guggenheim Fellow. John Cavanagh directs the Washington-based Institute ...
... for Policy Studies. He is the co-author of 12 books, most recently with Robin Broad, of Development Redefined: How the Market Met Its Match.
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* Republished from: https://www.ethicsandinternationalaffairs.org/2017/historic-wins-democracy-rights-el-salvador/ ...
... Times, the Washington Post, CBC, Reuters, the New York Times, the BBC, the London Review of Books, CounterPunch and Upside Down World – not forgetting Xinhuanet in China and Kalikasan in the Philippines, Le ...
... Congress "several booklets with thousands of signatures collected, in support of the bill to prohibit mining in El Salvador," according to the Catholic Office.
In late February, residents of the municipality ...
... to gather signatures from 40 percent of registered voters. On the books for years, the mechanism had never been used, but it now plays an important strategic role in the country’s movement against metallic ...