Ottawa – Canadian investments are coming between citizens of El Salvador and their water, says a new report. Authored by Meera Karunananthan of the Blue Planet Project and Susan Spronk of the University ...
INTERNATIONAL TRADE UNION CONFEDERATION
Brussels, 15 April 2015 (ITUC OnLine): The ITUC has described a $300m claim against El Salvador by an Australian/Canadian mining conglomerate as an example ...
... the project would threaten the country’s water supply. http://www.ipsnews.net/2014/09/world-bank-tribunal-weighs-final-arguments-in-el-salvador-mining-dispute/
Reuters: Protesters back El Salvador ...
Mongabay
Maxwell Radin
El Salvador banned all mining of metals in 2017, but environmentalists are concerned that the government is preparing to reverse the decision and bring in international investment. The ...
... 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 ...
... seems to be political revenge," the statement published by CDHAL points out.
Original source: https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Santa-Marta-Community-Leaders-Are-Persecuted-in-El-Salvador-20230119-0006.html ...
... protect Canadian mining investments. A March 2017 news release promoting Canada’s mining sector at an industry convention offers one example:
The Canada-Mongolia Foreign Investment Promotion and Protection ...
... and journalists in Tocoa.
Read news coverage based on evidence, not alarm. The roots of conflict Communities in Tocoa have persisted in organizing against the mines since 2011, when the Carlos Escaleras ...
... is back in the news after announcing its reactivation. Why is it important for us to be informed about this case? We explain more in this first thread:
According to MadreSelva, Bluestone Resources, the ...
... to it. One of the companies that made the most news during the pandemic was the Swiss mining transnational Glencore. Some of the most important of these developments regarding Glencore’s operations and ...
... this book is the brutal 2009 abduction, torture, and murder of Marcelo Rivera. The first sentence of The Water Defenders reads, “In late June 2009, the two of us received deeply disturbing news: Marcelo ...
... per ounce, according to Bloomberg News.
Since the mine opened, it has had multiple environmental violations. Most recently, state regulators said it violated a federal wastewater discharge law by releasing ...
... assistance to, an alleged drug trafficker who delivered thousands of kilos of cocaine throughout the United States.
In response to the news—which adds to a long list of cases by U.S. prosecutors in ...
... harassment.
Together with massive disinformation and fake news, all these fuels ethnic divide and discrimination towards IP and their struggles.
In the commemoration of the annual International Human ...
... been approved by local officials yet, said resident Sue Peachey.
“My mother came over and handed me the project overview of this tunnel and I just felt sick to my stomach,” Peachey told VICE World News. ...
EuroNews
The Parliament awards the Sakharov Prize every year to honour exceptional individuals and organisations defending human rights and fundamental freedoms. In 2019 the prize was awarded to Ilham ...
... water services. According to news reports, this situation has possibly worsened due to the pandemic.
Rosa Amelia Mendoza, a 45-year-old mother of three who resides in Colonia Altavista, a municipality ...
... no news of their whereabouts, and a tense atmosphere has taken over Triunfo de la Cruz. Several Garífuna communities across Honduras have protested, demanding the return of the same safe and sound under ...