... we can’t stand by with our arms crossed,” says Pedro Cabezas, coordinator of the mining and human rights program at the Association for the Development of El Salvador (Cripdes), a rural development organization ...
... tools for organizations to defend through direct action any rural and indigenous communities that may be threatened.
"Big megaprojects will enter our region under the Alliance for Prosperity of the Northern ...
... 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”, ...
... “47.8 of the rural population” who lack access to potable drinking water El Salvador.
More recently the Archbishop of El Salvador Jose Luis Alas asked legislators to reconsider their commitment to ...
... do so. Today, more than 200 organizations are demanding that they no longer punish the people," she said.
The march was organized by the Alliance for the Defense of the Rights of Rural Women; Environmental ...
... Not much wealth stayed in the developing Salvadoran economy, and most of the easily accessible minerals were extracted.
The dusty tunnel miners in rural El Salvador seem far removed from the ICSID lawsuit ...
... public pressure for a permanent ban on mining. The National Roundtable Against Mining in El Salvador - La Mesa, a coalition of civil society organizations that include rural development organizations, ...
... class sectors in the city and the rural areas.
What does commitment mean?
As part of my commitment, I will work with social movements in order to build a Salvadoran society that is just, equitable, ...
... footprint in urban and rural ecosystems. In 2010, El Salvador ranked as one of the most vulnerable countries in the world by the United Nations Disaster Assessment and Coordination (UNDAC) with 95% of ...
... World Bank, 90 percent of the surface water is heavily contaminated and 20 percent of its rural population lacks safe drinking water. Pacific Rim is using the World Bank’s International Centre for Settlement ...