... mere meeting.
For Cortes, the current government must take up the issue and lobby the Guatemalan Government for the closure of the mine. In addition, it should promote a regional agreement to avoid ...
... There must be an advisory council made up of 14 people from the agro-industry, agricultural cooperatives, industrial sector, tourism, indigenous groups, students, and regional watershed committees. All ...
... on them, all these appear to be empty gestures aimed at creating a facade of legitimacy. As in other regions of Honduras, the lives of environmental defenders in Tocoa who publicly oppose the government ...
... de la Maraña or Trinidad, come to ask for services, they are put aside. That is discrimination.”, concluded Hernandez.
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Translated by: Giada Ferrucci
Translated from: http://acafremin.org/es/noticias-regionales/el-salvador/426-el-estado-de-el-salvador-sigue-con-una-cuenta-pendiente-para-defensores-criminalizados-por-empresas-mineras ...
... also ask that the Government, through its Foreign Ministry, should negotiate and approve a regional agreement on the issue of "shared watersheds" with Guatemala and Honduras, in order to prevent cross-border ...
... of the more than 25 organizations who participated, the governments of the region criminalize environmental defenders who oppose extractive projects and to favor mining and other extractive companies. ...
... of cross-border natural assets.
The study is pending publication in the coming months.
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Translation: Giada Ferrucci
Translated from: http://acafremin.org/es/noticias-regionales/el-salvador/425-estudio-de-mineria-refleja-el-peligro-de-la-mina-cerro-blanco-2 ...
La Republica
Through his lawyers Walter Aduviri, the governor of the Puno region, criticized his deputy governor Agustín Luque. Aduviri expressed that Luque will be solely responsible for the region' ...
Kleber Sanchez - La Republica
The Criminal Court of Appeals of Puno confirmed a sentence of 6 years in prison against the regional governor Walter Aduviri and the payment of civil reparations for S/2 ...
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The Bajo Aguan Region in northern Honduras has historically been the setting for violent territorial disputes. Conflicts in the region can be traced back to the 1960s and 70s, when the Honduran government ...
... intersection after dropping off the youngest daughter at her school in Tabuk, a city in the Philippines about 450 kilometres north of Manila, nestled in the lush and mountainous Cordillera region. Without ...