... everyone to participate in this march to request the approval of the Law to Ban Mining, and to present the signatures that have been collected,” the Archbishop of San Salvador, Monsignor Escobar Alas, ...
... Archbishop of San Salvador, Jose Luis Escobar Alas, and representatives from the Universidad Centroamericana José Simeón Cañas (UCA) to present a bill to prohibit mining. The archbishop said, in no uncertain ...
... of the bill is to protect our country and its population from serious environmental contamination, especially of water, an inevitable consequence of open pit mining exploitation,” the archbishop of San ...
... contamination of natural resources like the water, the land, and the air. Further, repeating the words of the Archbishop of San Salvador, José Luis Escobar Alas, this subject is not political, it is a ...
... the Archbishop of El Salvador, José Luis Escobar Alas, has expressed repeatedly and publicly its rejection of metal mining, considering the industry and threat to the environment and health of the population. ...
... for Policy Studies and MiningWatch Canada, will be presented at OceanaGold’s office in Melbourne on Thursday, the 36th anniversary of the murder of Salvadoran Archbishop Óscar Romero.
“Designed to whitewash ...
... the military and the paramilitary killed over 500 farmers. The political legacy of the resistance can be seen on murals all over the village. Even archbishop Oscar Romero, assassinated in 1980, appears ...
... at the scenery; he was the former Archbishop of San Salvador, who had spoken out against the oppression of the poor and was murdered in 1980.
It is about the mountain that towers up behind the small town ...
... “47.8 of the rural population” who lack access to potable drinking water El Salvador.
More recently the Archbishop of El Salvador Jose Luis Alas asked legislators to reconsider their commitment to ...
... leaders in the country also weighed in on the issues. Archbishop José Luis Escobar, head of the Catholic Church who is often quoted in the Salvadoran press expressing his opposition to mining projects, ...
... to it, I think it is better to pay the money, than to pay the consequences,” Archbishop José Luis Escobar Alas recently stated to a Canadian national radio reporter.
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... rights to water, and a healthy environment.
9:20-10:50 Plenary session 1 - National perpectives on mining and the right to water in El Salvador
Jose Luis Escobar, Archbishop of El ...
... as their leader and representative of the democratic opposition."
When the Islamic State arrived in Mosul in August 2014, Mgr Najeeb Michaeel, Archbishop of Mosul, ensured the evacuation of Christians, ...