... communities in El Salvador are accompanied by civil society organizations including NGOs, universities, student groups, social movements, and faith organizations, such as the Catholic Church, and the democratically ...
... to join with local community, social and environmental organizations, the Catholic Church and other institutions to seek information about impacts of mining in the region.
“We visited sites such as ...
... American University Jose Simeon Cañas -UCA- where over 73% of people agreed that the government should ban metal mining in the country.
IV. That the Episcopal Conference of the Catholic Church, and particularly ...
... to be denied, it was also key opposition from different sectors of the country (environmental NGOs, the Catholic hierarchy, etc.) and, most importantly, community resistance in Cabañas, where -even- environmental ...
... Mining and important sectors of society, such as the hierarchy of the Catholic Church, that were calling for a prohibition on all metal mining activities.
“Since 2007, the Bishops Conference has called ...
... In the 2000 people town, the protest against mining is palpable. Slogans and murals decorate the walls. “No to mining, Yes to life”, says one of the slogans on the white wall just outside the Catholic ...
... movement strategically promoted a campaign that is pro-water rather than anti-industry, based on rigorously collected and analyzed scientific evidence.
The Salvadoran Catholic Church, citing doctrine ...
... to gold mining projects.
The resistance in the small town is tangible. Banners and slogans on the houses criticize the mine. In front of the catholic church, artists have painted anti-mining murals. ...
... for the sole reason of having explored and found minerals” he adds.
The spokesperson of OceanaGold, Andrea Artell, remarked in the Canadian publication The Catholic Register: “The exploration licence ...