ACAFREMIN
Social and environmental movements in the defense of human rights, groups of environmental women, indigenous peoples among other expressions organized mainly from the Central American region ...
Marvin Diaz - Gato Encerrado
The criminalization of environmentalists and land defenders was the thematic focus of the fifth meeting of the Central American Alliance Against Mining (ACAFREMIN) in El Salvador. ...
... has been spreading its tentacles throughout Central America and dealing a blow to the region’s agriculture and natural ecosystems, according to affected villagers, activists and a new report on the problem. ...
... movements, environmentalists and human rights defenders gathered in El Salvador to participate in the IV Regional Meeting of the Central American Alliance against Mining -ACAFREMIN.
The meeting aimed ...
... mining operations, due to the social and environmental damage they say has been caused since they began in 2007.
Conflicts like this have broken out in other areas of Guatemala and in other Central American ...
John Cavanagh, Robin Broad : RAPPLER
OceanaGold was stunningly defeated in El Salvador last March. Can it be defeated in the Philippines by 2019?
In March 2017, the small nation of El Salvador took ...
Oxfam
This assessment conducted by Oxfam discusses the social, environmental and economic costs of metals mining in Central America. The prices of metals are very unstable and mining practices produce ...
Caritas El Salvador
This article discusses four myths that are told by the mining industry in order to justify their activities in Central America. First, that the current technologies used in mining ...
UKaid 2009
The evidence is clear that greenhouse gases from anthropogenic activities are causing dramatic changes in the global climate. Central America is very vulnerable to these changes because of ...
... of the Central American territory, as such we express to the national and international public opinion.
Extractive industries are transnational corporations working in collusion with governments and ...
... mining met today in Managua to form a coalition to unify efforts against such projects. "It's a need to articulate our struggles, because mining provides a worrying trend for Central America, in some ...
By: Patrick Weiniger
Patrick Weiniger
First published in: http://redflag.org.au/article/mining-multinationals-exploit-central-america
El Salvadoran anti-mining campaigner Vidalina Morales recently ...
... experience is the one to which people in Central America who are concerned about mining always point.
Honduras, governed since a 2009 military coup by business-oriented elites, is creating special development ...
... solid and liquid waste will contaminate shared watersheds, worsen current water scarcity, and increase environmental vulnerability in Central America, says Jose Mario Lopez, of the Central American Alliance ...
... in El Salvador (Mesa Nacional Frente a la Minería Metálica en El Salvador, MNFM), the Ecofeminist Movement of El Salvador (Movimiento Ecofeminista de El Salvador, AMAES), the Central American Alliance ...
... Alliance against the Privatization of Water, the Roundtable of Churches in El Salvador and the Central American University state the following:
The Law continues to harm the rural and urban Community ...
... Mines Directorate; Public Works; Foreign Relations and Finance; as well as the Central Reserve Bank, Some municipalities, FOVIAL; and with some institutions in the private sector and academia.
According ...
... the door to renewed debate on metallic mining in El Salvador and threatens the guarantee of rights achieved with the ban of this industry in 2017.
The central issue in the debate on metallic mining in ...
... such as the Central America–Dominican Republic Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA-DR), which have been imposed on Guatemalans. This framework favors the development of large-scale mining and energy projects that ...
... nearly 4,000 people are calling on the Vancouver-based company to halt all community activities in the Central American country.
In mid-April, activists delivered a petition to Pan American Silver urging ...