San Salvador, February 4th, 2012
The NationalRoundtable Against Metallic Mining in El Salvador(La Mesa) reiterated in a press conference this morning its petition for the Salvadoran Government to introduce ...
... legacies of colonial influence,” she said.
But it is Canada’s absence of regulatory mechanisms for the industry that, in part, allows mining companies to cause harm on a systemic level.
“Canada’s leadership ...
... to support the Honduras Human Rights and Anti-Corruption Act. It’s long overdue that President Juan Orlando Hernández be held accountable for his troubling leadership.”
“I remain extremely concerned ...
... social-cooperation agreement was set up to alleviate some of the residents’ sky-high medical costs, but under Equinox’s leadership, medicines arrived months late and were priced well above market rates. ...
Luis Solano | Ellen Moore | Jen Moore - IPS / Earthworks
DOWNLOAD THE STUDY HEREAcross the Global South, and especially in Latin America, international mining companies have used a combination of disturbing ...
... Police in order to force fuel tankers in the mining site; a local leader was arrested but also bailed out the following day.
Gina Lopez’s ‘maverick leadership” remembered
A posthumous award was also ...
... government. Unwavering community opposition and legal actions halted the project in 2016. With the company’s leadership under criminal investigation and its mine suspended, KCA turned to Investor State ...
... sided with the company to absolve it of responsibility and to discredit the Shuar People’s elected leadership instead.
As documented in Voices from the Ground, other mineral exploration companies have ...
... of water or environmental resources. And concretely, the National Alliance against the Privatization of Water, has also had to face attacks and accusations and discredit from the economic leadership, and ...
... people from the Q’eq’chi ’community leadership, journalists and human rights defenders, are criminalized and face “false” trials articulated with the complicity of local officials of the Public Ministry ...
... is not because of the lack of enthusiasm from the civil society and the extractive companies. The lack of interest and leadership to prioritize good governance in the sector comes from the national government. ...
... legal and political tactics, an elite foreign interest is profiting at the expense of people and planet," stated Laura Martin, Executive Director of the Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada (PLAN). ...
... (USA)
Chicago-Guatemala Partnership (USA)
Chicago Religious Leadership Network on Latin America (USA)
Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador (CISPES)(USA)
Cooperation Operation ...
... microfinances, organic agriculture, leadership training, youth programs, and women’s empowerment. An Historic Success Their most public success began in 2006 with their resistance to a Canadian-Australian ...
... Religious Leadership Network on Latin America (CLRN)
Columban Center for Advocacy and Outreach
Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador (CISPES)
Corporate Accountability International ...
... He and four fellow activists were being honored with the Institute for Policy Studies’ Letelier-Moffitt human rights award for their leadership in El Salvador’s fight against toxic gold mining. Under massive ...
... leadership to enable their control of the territory.
As it is not possible to meet with the leadership we instead direct ourselves to Mrs. Marsh, a woman of 50 years, who invited us to her home. She ...
... ARENA party. When the FMLN finally won power in the later 2000s, Nueva Trinidad witnessed a new relationship with the municipal government, with campesino leaders taking leadership roles in the town councils ...
... Portillo, the mayor of Texistepeque, and Reynaldo Cardoza, a federal congressman from Chalatenango, are also allegedly active in the group’s leadership. Insight Crime writes: “Their political links, which ...
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