... main theme.
ATM will continue to support the the resistance of local communities in Brgy. Didipio, Kasibu, Nueva Vizcaya. We will support the barricades there, and all the initiatives of the local ...
... Metal Mining» they added.
Finally, they asked the Executive government to play a leading role in the discussion of the General Water Law and to veto any initiative that leads to privatization.
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... de la Terre (Friends of the Earth France)
Adveniat (GERMANY)
Both Ends(NETHERLANDS)
CAREA e.V (GERMANY)
CETRI Centre Tricontinental (BELGIQUE)
Christian Initiative Romero (CIR)(GERMANY)
Colectivo ...
... recent weeks, international organizations from five continents have endorsed a public sign-on letter entitled:Stop the Criminalization of Social Protest and Corporate Impunity in Peru!! The initiative ...
... weeks after elections and month before the new legislature took over, the American Chamber of Commerce flanked by large multinational corporations called a press conference to announce private initiatives ...
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International Observers:
Breaking the Silence (Canada)
Institute for Policy Studies - Washington, DC
Christian Romero Initiative, CIR
Network in Solidarity with the people in Guatemala - ...
... stop mining projects as well stop a project providing water containing heavy metals to the community, an initiative led by the mayor Sensuntepeque. Miranda said that the communities experience fear due ...
... investment embodies a copy of models that have been used in other countries where corporate social responsibility initiatives have been used to promote mining exploitation.
Translated by: Giada Ferrucc ...
... 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 ...
... said Baños.
Citizen organizations have been emphatic in affirming that the initiative of law presented by right-wing parties highlights a "privatization strategy", since the management institution would ...
... Foundation, CISPES and Oxfam from the US; SalvAide from Canada; and the Romero Christian Initiative from Germany had a history of human rights work during the war, including supporting refugees (many of ...
... also received by René Portillo Cuadra, from ARENA, and Norma Guevara, from the FMLN who promised their parties' support for the initiative. Gallegos even anticipated that there would be good news regarding ...
... to the vote on a law prohibiting mining.
One of the last legal initiatives against mining was presented last February 7 by officials of the Salvadoran Catholic Church.
A World Bank (WB) arbitration body ...
... Anna Backmann from the German group Christian Initiative Romero.
Other organizations that demanded that the company pay up included local industry, environmental and church groups in El Salvador and from ...
... that is part of the National Roundtable Against Mining in El Salvador) said, “For the past several years, CRIPDES has accompanied Salvadoran communities that have taken the initiative to organize municipal ...
... letter(requesting prohibition) in the Legislative Assembly. With this petition from a group of mayors from northern Chalatenango, and the FMLN party, they add to the two civilian initiatives to legislate ...
... in the past armed conflict and it has an abundant ecological diversity that is currently encouraged by local governments through sustainable development initiatives that promote the protection and conservation ...
... initiative. Only the representatives of the ruling FMLN have been willing to discuss a project to ban mining, but they only add 31 lawmakers out of 43 needed.
That balance could change in the municipal ...
... and environmental organizations to promote democratic initiatives, such as binding referenda, that lead to the creation of municipal ordinances to protect the environment and preserve their natural resources. ...