Gloria Orellana : CoLatino
"As relatives of the victims, we are still awaiting for justice to be made, and this event is to commemorate and recognize their lives," said Alejandro Guevara, at the seven ...
... suffer the worst consequences. At Cerro Blanco, the company has proposed a filtered tailings storage facility will be built in dangerous proximity to communities that would be banned in many countries ...
... in the town of San Isidro, in Cabañas, by going door-to-door to collect donated books. They built a few shelves in their family’s living room and called it the San Isidro Foundation for Culture and the ...
... They froze without showers, toilets, or washing machines — let alone drinking water — for days or even weeks.
The irony that Texas, the state built on fossil fuels, was completely unprepared for extreme ...
... specialist.
María Luisa Torres lives in El Junquillo, a few meters from Carmelo, in an area where crickets can be heard and the shade of the trees hardly allows you to see her humble home built with ...
... there have also been outcries from communities against possible attempts to take over some of the wells originally built to supply areas ANDA was failing to service that are managed by community water ...
... incomplete environmental impact assessment. It built its mine without a construction license and through violent repression of local communities by private security and state-armed forces under a corrupt ...
... tropical dry forest, one of the most threatened ecosystems in Colombia.
Cerrejón built an artificial flow to divert the Arroyo by more than 3 kilometers. The idea was to divert the stream through an ...
... water was clear and it did not look the way it does now... This is the result of the mine that is being built," she stated. Now, the water from the Ostúa River has a greenish color due to contamination, ...
... than 26 barrels of cyanide each were left exposed. The minimal social infrastructure the company had built, a community center and a clinic, were closed, the dusty road that leads to San Sebastian was ...
... should be built with support from various communities, from neighboring countries, as well the support from international organizations to ensure that multilateral initiatives such as the human right to ...
... groups in El Salvador for the past eight years, and who are also founding members of International Allies.
They built their fight as frontline human rights defenders, who were valuing water over gold. ...
... and strategy. We can never forget the basics of organising. Powerful narratives rooted in local realities, told and amplified well, are a powerful and unifying force. Relationships built on trust and intentional, ...
... for the company to ever enter their territory, religious members of the mostly Catholic community built, in 2006, a 1500 pound effigy of the Virgin Mary and carried it in pilgrimage through more than 10 ...
... from mining process has created a public health disaster; the housing situation of many residents in the community is precarious due to the uncertainty about title to the land where they have built their ...
... reason to expect that the project permit would be granted, since similar pipelines have been built before. And as ridiculous as this sounds, tribunals have interpreted international investor protections in ...
... plateau where the mine entrance used to be, and from where open tunnels still lead into the mountain. Artisanal miners have built shelters out of wooden posts, under shady aluminum roofs: with hammocks ...
... tells us that her house was built with the earnings derived from artisanal mining; however, the opportunities were terminated with the entrance of Oceana Gold, who now owns the mine. Marsh tells us: “Now ...
... of the mostly Catholic community built, in 2006, a 900 pound effigy of the Virgin Mary and carried it in pilgrimage through more than five Kilometres of steep mountainous paths to build a temple at the ...
... for its case against El Salvador.
It said Australia had also built ISDS clauses into some trade agreements and could be at risk of similar lawsuits in the future.
“What if, one day, Australia decided ...