... international governance institutions were being manipulated in favour of corporate interests, it became not just a powerful unifying narrative, but a story everybody wanted to tell.
According to Manuel ...
Sebastian Rosemont: Huffinton Post
The vote marked the culmination of a decade of pressure from activists, environmentalists and the Catholic church.
In an historic vote, El Salvador became the first ...
... to public demands for a prohibition on all metal mining.
Nonetheless, once it became clear that its lobbying strategy was a complete failure, the company announced the suit, brazenly claiming that the ...
... of the community are aware of it. “We are troubled by the lack of action from the national government to implement a national mining ban. That is the reason why on September 2014, we became first municipality ...
Leon Dulce: IPCM
The 2016 World Social Forum recently held in Montreal, Canada became an important opportunity to develop an important global undertaking: the forging of an international people's campaign ...
... that goes against the interests and security of the population and the environment.
Last year the Institute of Public Opinion of the UCA (IUDOP) conducted a nationwide survey where it became clear that ...
... behind him. Morales is the head of the national office for the defense of human rights. “In the end, they became deadly conflicts after the company failed to receive the permit to mine precious metals”. ...
... granted a mining authorization. At the same time, the project was met with a massive opposition of the population. Local environmental activists became victims of assassinations as a result of this. Pacific ...
Marina Bonneti
Successful referendum puts Municipality of Arcatao among the few official Mining-Free Territories in El Salvador
On Sunday, November 8th Arcatao became the fourth Municipality in the ...
... dubbed the “road to riches”, when influence-peddling became an American growth industry. Parada, a soft-spoken 55-year-old from El Salvador, is one of a handful of lawyers in the world who specialise in ...
... town of Nueva Trinidad recently became the third municipality in El Salvador to officially declare itself a 'territory free of mining' through a historic popular community consultation.
First published ...
Juan Carlos Jimenez - Upside Down World
Nueva Trinidad, an agricultural town in the department of Chalatenango in El Salvador, became the third municipality in the country to declare itself a “Territory ...
... in El Salvador have decided to move ahead of the national debate and have already set out their position on mining.
At the beginning of March, the municipality of Nueva Trinidad, in Chalatenango, became ...
... be predominantly private and thus would have control of a natural resource. Privatization was first raised since by Alfredo Cristiani when he became president; but our party FMLN has always considered ...
... became evident as right wing members of the commission voted to reverse an early decision to set up a publicly managed National Water Commission to administer water resources of the country, instead they ...
... recently became part of a larger Australian-based corporation. When OceanaGold bought Pacific Rim last year, it identified the Salvadoran mining prospects as a key asset, even though gold prices have sunk ...
... company operate because it wants to protect its main source of water.
The case pits El Salvador’s government against a Canadian gold-mining company that recently became part of a larger Australian-based ...
... elections.
But as the campaign picked up esteem in late 2013 and the party released its campaign platform, environmental leaders became disappointed that the document did not reflect the proposals ...
... degree in Public Health with an emphasis on maternal and child nutrition at INCAP in Guatemala. He then received a Masters in Development Sociology at the Autonomous University of Mexico.
He became aware ...
by Robin Broad
First published in: http://triplecrisis.com/buzzwords-responsible-mining/#more-8529 Buzzwords and Fuzzwords - terms that became popular but mean vastly different things to different ...