... fear of water defenders in El Salvador. And, this is why there is now a global outcry over these arrests."
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... organizer.
In that sense, a legal precedent established by the Guatemalan Constitucional Court in 2012 may be on the environmentalist's side as it ruled that these municipal consultation mechanisms ...
... year we want to set up a factory to extract coconut products.
In addition, we hope that the first indigenous university with holistic perspective can be installed there, where we will work on the themes ...
... were aware of the impacts that mining exploitation would have on water and the environment in general.
In recent days we have learned that the Salvadoran government has approached specialists from the ...
... of the communities that led to the acts of violence and assassination of 5 environmentalists in Cabañas and the strategies these communities utilized to forge a robust national and international movement ...
... administration is reducing nature to a commodity—a thing to be consumed, a means to a capitalist end. Reflective of a typically patriarchal, exploitative, and extractive mode of doing business, its mining ...
... biggest blows to efforts to preserve natural resources in the country.
It was also seen to escalate threats against communities opposing mining projects. In 2019, the Philippines topped the list of nations ...
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Adam Ang
Oceanagold’s mining operations in Didipio, Kasibu, Nueva Vizcaya have dried up the sources of water, polluted the environment and crippled the livelihood of farmers. “We won’t be ...
... Philippines. The Philippines is also dangerous for journalists, trade unionists, peasants and environmentalists. According to a report released by Global Witness, the Philippines had the highest number ...
... has reneged on pledges to regulate them and end the abuses
Canada is home to 75 percent of the world’s mining companies. Firms based or listed in Canada operate approximately four thousand mineral projects ...
... and journalists in Tocoa.
Read news coverage based on evidence, not alarm. The roots of conflict Communities in Tocoa have persisted in organizing against the mines since 2011, when the Carlos Escaleras ...
... level. In a joint statement, the organizations list the targets of their complaints: ESB (Electricity Supply Board) – an Irish state-owned company that buys coal from Cerrejón; the Dublin-based Coal Marketing ...
... That year, the Philippines topped the list of countries with the highest number of mining-linked deaths of environmental defenders.
Among the 16 fatalities that year was Datu Kaylo Bontolan, an Indigenous ...
... I know the disciplines this company practices.’’
Officials with the S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers saidthey’ll listen to the public before making ...
... Voters of South Carolina, said environmentalists plan to speak out about the mine expansion proposal.
“The conservation community will be weighing in on the expansion permits, especially given the recent ...
... knocked on the doors of unlikely allies. Most of those people didn't originally want to see the water defenders, but at a certain point, they listened. We have a stereotype of activists. We think of them ...
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- Danilo Morale, sGeneral Director of the System for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, Journalists, Social Communicators and Justice Operators. E-mail: proteccion.ddhh.hn@gmail.com, analsisderiesgodgsp@gmail.com ...
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Today the Federal Court of Canada hears a case alleging that the Canadian government is improperly withholding information about its diplomatic interventions on behalf of a Canadian company accused ...
... severe human rights violations, reinforced by harmful rhetoric from high-level officials against human rights organizations, lawyers, political, judicial actors, journalists, trade unionists, and religious ...
... assistance to, an alleged drug trafficker who delivered thousands of kilos of cocaine throughout the United States.
In response to the news—which adds to a long list of cases by U.S. prosecutors in ...