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Efenita Taqueban and Gideon Lasco
In the name of “recovery” from the pandemic, the Philippine government has opened up mining opportunities in the country, with the President recently lifting ...
by Karen Hudlet : Equal Times
In October this year, the World Bank’s International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) decided in favour of El Salvador in a case brought by the US mining ...
A recently published essay by Phd candidate Rachel Nadelman looks at the role of the Catholic Church in the anti-mining struggle in El Salvador.
Abstract:
"A majority of Salvadoran citizens and ...
... organizations (Led by TerraJusta)
April 27: (AUSTRIA) A picket and letter delivery demanding freedom for the santa Marta in front of the Salvadoran embassy in Vienna, Austria.
April 27: (WASHIGNTON, ...
... statement calling on the Salvadoran government to drop the charges against the five water defenders or, at the very least, release them from prison to await their trial. Currently, they are being held ...
... forces during the 1980s to remain in impunity, while punishing the leaders of communities, like Santa Marta, who bore the brunt of that very violence."
Original source: https://www.commondreams.org/news/el-salvador-water-defenders ...
... there is a humanitarian crisis that is creating the notion that “everyone wants to leave this country”.
OFRANEH was born in the late seventies. At that time, OFRANEH concentrated its fight against the ...
... with all these worrisome realities, we are once again called to resist the advance of policies and practices, rejected in the past, that endanger the viability of our nation and the very life of our citizens. ...
... been used as a neocolonial instrument to discipline and punish governments and peoples in the Global South in order to protect transnational companies over everything else.
Nearly a third of the more ...
... reform and rural development, and genuine sustainable development in order to translate mining into a truly just and green economic recovery," it added.
The group cited the large-scale mining operations ...
... to reach agreements regarding the start of the pre-consultation process.
Aleisar Arana, Huxi Hurak of the Xinka People said, “It is a very special day, a day we fought for, a day that will remain in ...
... also be allocated for the government’s pandemic response.
But Kalikasan People’s Network for the Environment refuted this, saying the move is a “fake Covid-19 economic recovery program.”
“We won’t ...
... law.
“The CNCA’s proposal stands in stark contrast to the modern slavery reporting law currently being examined by the Canadian Senate,” said Catherine Coumans, co-manager at MiningWatch Canada. “The ...
... ban by prohibiting all large-scale metalliferous mining activity at every stage including prospection and exploration, not only exploitation.
However, under increasing pressure from industry, the Chubut ...
... of the global mining industry headquartered in Canada, the occupation of Canadian mining corporations has been felt across the Philippines.
While resource extraction has benefited elites, very few economic ...
... ignored everything they said. In March of this year, Liberal MP John McKay reportedly confronted Mary Ng, minister of Small Business, Export Promotion and International Trade, over the government’s failure ...
... very good background and history of the Cerro Blanco mine can be found on the Environmental Justice Atlas website, here, EJAtlas – Cerro Blanco. There is information in both English and Spanish and, though ...