... projects fueled by foreign investors and the Honduran government. “We are in danger daily — all the leaders of the Garífuna community, all the defendants of the land in Honduras,” says Carla Garcia, international ...
... use more than a million liters of water daily. The Marlin mine in San Miguel Ixtlahuacán in Guatemala, considered by the World Bank as the most modern mine in Central America, used more than six million ...
... that the expansion caused. Over forty families were uprooted and moved to a “Residential Unit” that adjoins the mine site, where the company exercises near complete control over daily life. On top of these ...
... programs to weatherize homes — much less upgrade the state’s decaying water infrastructure.
This extreme weather disaster gave Americans a glimpse of the daily reality of billions who struggle to protect ...
Otago Daily
Hamish Maclean
OceanaGold has welcomed investigations under way to rule out all possible sources of lead in an Otago community’s water supply even after the mining company resurfaced on ...
... allow families to secure their daily livelihood. "To the extent that these initiatives can be replicated and scaled, and have greater coverage, they can have positive impacts on the population", said the ...
... Ministry of Defense, and the National Civil Police have been carrying out dozens of daily raids in the municipalities where the restriction of rights was decreed. Among the findings, marijuana and poppy ...
Jen Moore - Counter punch
The hard work of protecting water and land from the long-term harms associated with gold and silver mining takes place daily on the frontlines of tenacious struggles throughout ...
... works in the mine: the river are indispensable sources of water for their daily life and economic subsistence.
Confrontation between protesters and security guards
The conflict erupted in 2018, during ...
... remain at risk. Those who survive are forced to endure the daily anxiety of state persecution, and the harassment of their friends, neighbors, and family.
Finally, the study supported by three international ...
... his presence in them, in their daily struggle to make this world a better place for all.”
The Movement in Defense of Life and Territory (MODEVITE by its initials in Spanish) received the first Mariano ...
... daily use, is vital for agriculture, and is affected by the presence of metallic minerals, like cyanide, all of which will alter food production." -- Julio González
The villagers are fighting the El ...
... This problem affects us all in our daily lives, but it is the poor who suffer the most, especially women and children.
Toxic waste and heavy metals from industry, poisonous chemicals from agricultural ...
... resistance on May 23, 2014. The first exportation of material was made in October 2014.
At the time of operation, the Tambor mine was processes nearly 200 tons of earth daily. The rocks and ore are ground ...
... but God wants the salvation of mankind in its entirety, in its daily reality,” he says. “God does not want injustice. The Lord has sent us to work for the Kingdom of God on earth.”
Republished from: https://www.americamagazine.org/politics-society/2018/04/06/church-el-salvador-backs-law-declaring-clean-affordable-water-human ...
... mining company, Also in CNBC (Canada), Daily Mail (UK), Fox Business (USA), The Street (USA), Yahoo Finance (USA)
Associated Press (US): El Salvador se adjudica victoria legal sobre minera, also in El ...
... has contaminated their main source of water, the San Sebastian River, and at least 300 people who currently work in artisanal mining are exposed daily to heavy metals, and substances like mercury and methane, ...
In eight articles various cases are presened that aim to serve as tools of action for activists to use in their fight for justice against the systematic violation of human rights and other crimes committed ...
... significance of the socio- environmental crisis that this country is undergoing. Here the socio-natural disasters are a daily occurrence. Without evaluating the economic cost of natural disasters, CELA ...
... was locally reported that a contract for his killing was widely known in the area, and he was last seen alive at a bus stop close to Ilobasco on 18 June 2009. Salvadoran daily Diario Co Latino recorded ...