... to the awards or even to its reforestation requirements.
We expected to see plantations filled with healthy trees, certainly as tall as President Duterte. Instead, we found hillsides where we were hard-pressed ...
... on her family, including her three-year-old daughter’s life. But the radio station continued its campaign.
“It was such a hard time,” she says, “but instead of people shutting up in fear, they raised ...
... and witnesses. Commented MiningWatch Canada spokesperson Catherine Coumans, “We have pushed hard for an Ombudsperson that will have robust powers to independently investigate complaints brought by people ...
... a ban on metal mining.
The law awaits President Salvador Sánchez Cerén’s signature, which is anticipated any day.
However, the fight may not be over. It’s hard to say with certainty if OceanaGold will ...
... yes to life!” Local efforts were key to winning this hard-fought national consensus.
In the years leading up to the vote, while facing a largely unresponsive government, Salvadoran citizens, with the ...
... impacts of mining, and a national march for the prohibition of mining on February 28th.
Following the actions of community, environmental organizations, and church leaders, legislators will be hard-pressed ...
... And then in 2011, Juan Francisco Durán Ayala, a volunteer with the Cabañas Environmental Committee, was also murdered. And yet in the face of severe risk and economic hardship, people on the ground stood ...
... then we repopulated Santa Marta and we lived in peace until the Pacific Rim arrived. What's more shocking is that environmentalists were murdered, even a pregnant woman. It was very hard for us, we're still ...
... of doing so. And in Europe opposition against the ISDS-system is growing fast amongst citizens as well as politicians", says Burghard Ilge from Both ENDS
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... the beginning of the 1980s it has worked hard for the rights of the rural population. “In the end we have put a lot of work in the sensitization of the population and the preparation of the referendum”, ...
... to bring suit by foreign investors”, say Pia Eberhardt from the Corporate Europe Observatory, an organization critical of the TTIP. Such rights would give the foreign company the possibility to “ask for ...
P. Cabezas
As the world celebrated the conclusion of the COP21 talks in Paris, the somber mood in the community of La Maraña, in the northern department of Cabañas of El Salvador, hardly echoes the cheerful ...
... files a lawsuit before an arbitration tribunal. From El Salvador, Oliver Ristau.
A vote could hardly be any clearer. 99% of the voters in Arcatao, a Municipality in northern El Salvador, said No. There ...
... trade rules and foreign tribunals to garner a profit from a failed mining project, community members who have suffered hardship and irreparable loss due to the presence of the company in their territory ...
UNHRC moves away from voluntary standards and towards a binding treaty to prevent transnationalcorporations human rights violations
Twenty country members of the United Nations Human Rights Council, ...
... restrictions to the operations of transnational mining companies. An increased reluctance to do so will ensure that activists raising awareness of environmental concerns will find political allies harder ...
... commercial treaties because of pressure by investors, and these are binding, hard-law treaties,” explained Manuel Perez-Rocha, an associate fellow at IPS. “So who has more real power? Transnationals assure ...
... liberties. Throughout modern history, these “rights” have been promoted by what are called “free trade agreements,” though hardly worthy of the name, as a quick review of the relevant—thus suppressed ...
... had successfully blocked the highway for an hour last month. We told Vidalina about the demands indigenous people in Canada are making of their government for water, housing, health care. It was hard ...
El Salvador—Guns, Gold and Choice
In 2010 Prof. Richard Steiner, from the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and the Commission on Environmental Economic and Social Policy, visited El ...