... on environmentally destructive metal mining. More than 250 organizations from 29 countries came together Friday to pressure the Salvadoran government to drop the charges against and release five water ...
... 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 ...
... metal exploration and exploitation again.
The government has shown little interest to date in environmental issues, and its policies and practices confirm the absence of an environmental conscience. ...
Minería Panamericana
Anglo American mining company has filed a lawsuit against a ban preventing Colombian coal miner Cerrejón from developing its La Puente project.
The latest lawsuit comes after Cerrejón ...
CNCA
On March 2, 2021, the Federal Court of Canada will hear arguments in a lawsuit that seeks information about the Canadian government’s response to a human rights case concerning a Canadian-owned ...
... that ban in The Water Defenders (Beacon Press, 2021).
Broad and Cavanagh spent over a decade collaborating with the international solidarity movement supporting the Salvadorans’ fight against a proposed ...
... an international arbitration against the host state (in other words, the foreign state where the investor's investment is located) before an international tribunal. This international arbitration can be ...
AFTINET
A new report by the Netherlands-based Transnational Institute reveals a rush of international arbitration cases against Latin American states by international investors during the COVID-19 pandemic. ...
... of Tocoa, in Honduras, reported in a press conference that the Court of Appeals, in the department of Francisco Morazán, overturned the ruling that dismissed charges against environmental defenders Juan ...
Twitter
This Wednesday, July 1st, the organizations that make up the National Alliance against the Privatization of Water, presented a letter addressed to the deputies of the Committee on the Environment ...
... (Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, and Nicaragua), participated in the Fifth Regional Meeting of the Central American Alliance Against Mining – ACAFREMIN.
The theme addressed during the meeting has ...
PRESS RELEASE : National Alliance against the Privatization of Water in El Salvador
“On the Occasion of the Global Climate Strike” “Without Water, There Is No Future”
On the occasion of the Global ...
... murder of human rights defender Marcelo Rivera, who launched the first cry against the OceanaGold/Pacific Rim mining company. Marcelo´s life was threatened for a long time, but he continued to organize ...
... and it failed to do so. As such, the Roundtable against Metal Mining has asked the new government of Nayib Bukele to resume the actions still pending from the approval of the Metallic Mining Ban.
According ...
* LA PAGINA
Members of the National Roundtable against Metal Mining requested the President of the Republic, Nayib Bukele, to implement the Ban of Metal Mining, to address problems faced by mining affected ...
ON WORLD INDIGENOUS PEOPLE’S DAY, THE GLOBAL NETWORK YES TO LIFE NO TO MINING JOINS THE GLOBAL PROTEST AGAINST OCEANA GOLD WITH ITS MEMBER ORGANISATION KALIKASAN FROM THE PHILIPPINES
Indigenous peoples ...
... the US$300 million-dollar suit that the U.S. mining company Kappes, Cassiday & Associates (KCA) is bringing against the Central American country as a shameless attempt to undermine the will of the communities ...
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 ...
... the main streets of San Salvador to make the public launch of the National Alliance against the Privatization of Water in El Salvador, as a space for coordinating the popular struggle against the threat ...
Catholic News Service
SAN SALVADOR, EL SALVADOR — El Salvador's bishops urged lawmakers to discard any plans for privatizing water in the Central American country, saying the poor could not afford to ...