... and regulators have “interpreted that legislation as meaning you only can’t opencast mine, but you can underground mine,” Macassey-Pickard said.
People can’t expect mining companies to act in good faith ...
... as criminals. Next, it took to blaming the community for the company’s own inability—or apparent lack of interest—in a good faith and productive negotiation. The community, they suggested, was just trying ...
... Martínez Díaz - are members of the Municipal Committee in Defense of Common and Public Goods of Tocoa. They are imprisoned for their participation in a peaceful protest camp against a mining company, whose ...
... who dares to defend the public and common goods of Honduras.”
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The Court of Appeals ruling confirms Honduras as the most dangerous country for environmental defenders in the world. On August 15, members of the Committee for the Defense of the Public and Common Goods ...
... to defend the public and common goods of Honduras," said Attorney Edy Tábora, from the Justice for the People's Law Firm and a member of the legal defense team. "This case is not just about Guapinol. This ...
... relations coordinator at the Black Fraternal Organization of Honduras.
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... mining corporations will not deliver a future for the Global South that ensures good food, clean air and water, healthy communities, and planetary survival. However, the health-centered struggles and collective ...
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Good morning to all. Thanks to the comrades from ADES, from the National Roundtable against Metallic Mining, and those who accompanied us ...
... resume "urgently" the discussion of the General Law of Water.
The declaration recalls that "water is a source of life and a public good, whose access constitutes a fundamental human right", necessary in ...
... part of the Alliance recognize water as a source of life and a public good, whose access constitutes a fundamental human right of humanity. Secondly, the organizations part of the Alliance also recognize ...
... current context, in order to ratify the goal of this alliance of organizations and communities for a Water and Sanitation Law, as a resource of the State and to safeguard this common good. "The deputy Martha ...
... making it more difficult for local communities to obtain goods quality water.
One of the concerns for local residents of the community of Pita Floja, im Metapan, is that their main source of water will ...
San Salvador, February 6th, 2020
The different sectors of civil society and the popular organizations hereby represented recognize water as a source of life and a public good, whose access constitutes ...
... approach to common goods, but a consensus was never reached at the Environment and Climate Change Commission.
In November 2019, the National Alliance against the Privatization of Water, asked the Legislative ...
... and the mining industry support this track. But the most important support for good governance in the extractive sector to continue should come from the government.
The commitment of the government has ...
... bathing, drinking, washing clothes, and more. From an environmental and human rights standpoint, “the Philippines is not a good place for mining, but Canadian companies are showing up there anyway,” Coumans ...
... privileging the industrial and agro-industrial sectors who have historically polluted and degraded natural resources and have benefited economically by commodifying public goods; to avoid violations to ...
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Pumihic said he always misses the old days. The once peaceful community blessed with rich soil and good neigborhood is now badly damaged and divided by a foreign company.
He has nephews working for ...
... from Peru, Bolivia and Haiti shared their perspectives on the constant mobilization for the defense of natural goods and proposed strategies for extending long term collaborations with antimining coalitions ...