... model for us,” he tells America. “He is the one who marked a turning point in our history, when the [Salvadoran] Church became preoccupied with human rights.”
Over the past decade, the Salvadoran Church ...
Guatemala City, April 26-27, 2018.
We, the representatives of social movements, environmental organizations, human rights defenders, women's groups, indigenous peoples participating in the II Regional ...
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VIDEO: On the occasion of the third session of the UN Human Rights Council open-ended intergovernmental working group on transnational corporations (TNCs) and other business ...
Dario Bossio - Iglesia y Minería
“Historically we have known the dealings of the corporations in our lands, in our countries. We have known firsthand how human rights are violated in our territories. ...
Robin Broad and John Cavanagh : Ethics and International Affairs
Recently there have been two giant wins for democracy, human rights, and the environment in an unlikely spot: the small, embattled nation ...
El Pais/EFE
San Salvador, Feb 28 (EFE) .- El Salvador's Human Rights Ombudswoman, Raquel Caballero, congratulated today the residents of the town of Cinquera (northwest Cabañas), who last sunday rejected ...
... Monsignor José Elías Rauda, Bishop of the Diocese Of San Vicente, at a mass officiated in the church Santa Barbara, in Sensuntepeque, Cabañas. "Mining is not a matter of left or right but of life or death, ...
Public Citizen Global Trade Watch
The Commerce Group Corporation attacked El Salvador’s environmental policies under the CAFTA when the company’s environmental permits for gold mining in Northeastern ...
Public Citizen
Pacific Rim Mining Corp. is a Canadian-based firm attempted to establish a gold mine in the River Lempa basin, El Salvador’s largest river. This generated a large debate about the health ...
... Convention No. 169 was developed to protect self-identified indigenous people and attempts to address all key aspects of indigenous peoples’ rights. This is a guide to provide governments, indigenous and ...
... communities, organization that defend human rights, mining companies and public authorities. This report gives a voice to human rights defenders who are fighting for their right to land and a clean environment ...
D. Kingsbury 2014, OXFAM Australia
This report examines the issues of the El Dorado gold mine project, and past and potential future impacts that has and already had on the Salvadoran environment, society ...
... violate the rights of the inhabitants of the department of Cabañas.
Researcher Jennifer Moore stressed that mining companies create foundations to disguise their intentions, but basically are just looking ...
... article 69 of the Constitution, which proposes to recognize food s and the access to water as a human right.
This is deplorable. We, as organizations and social movements, are going to denounce it, and ...
... promote a simple strategy that could save the public billions of dollars.
Yanira Cortez, Deputy Attorney for the Environment for El Salvador's Human Rights Ombudsperson's Office and Marcos Gálvez, President ...
Toronto (Canada), May 12 (EFE Noticias) .- The Ombudsperson for the Defense of the Rights of Environment of El Salvador, Yanira Cortez, began a tour of Canada today to talk about the case of OceanaGold ...
... Rapporteurs on the Right to Water, Leo Heller, and Special Rapporteur on Food, Hila Lever, has become the latest salvo in a high profile campaign led by Salvadorean environmental organizations seeking ...
... General Water Act is a commitment to our country and throughout the various legislative platforms we have raised its recognition as a human right in the Constitution of the Republic to prevent its private ...
... El Salvador in 2004. The Salvadoran government refused it permission, arguing the company did not own or have rights to the land it proposed to mine, it did not have environmental permissions and it did ...
In an obscure World Bank court, a multinational mining firm is suing El Salvador for attempting to protect its citizens from deadly mining pollution.
by Robin Broad and John Cavanah
Published in: http://fpif.org/meet-company-suing-el-salvador-right-poison-water/ ...