While There is a Slight Increase in Water Quality, the Situation is still Critical
River Water Quality Improves, says MARN
The water classified as “good” in rivers increased 2 per cent, to 12 percent ...
... 30 years ago. Now, like thousands of other prisoners in El Salvador, they are in grave danger of dying or being killed while awaiting an opportunity to prove their innocence. Their families and legal team ...
... valued at around $25 billion, while its debt is around $20 billion. “But still,” said University of Georgia professor Julio Sevilla, “you cannot really afford to make bad investments when your finances ...
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In a statement, the Washington-based Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) said the government’s decision to arrest the five men while blocking justice in high-profile cases like the El Mozote massacre ...
... cause for concern. But in El Salvador today, where torture and deadly prison conditions reign under the current state of exception, this quickly becomes a matter of life and death."
While allies of the ...
... few misinformed citizens of Asuncion Mita, whose particular interest is to generate disinformation for the local population while supporting mining projects that may negatively impact the natural resources ...
... are important because they make it possible to strengthen local democracy, promote transparency in the public administration, and are tools for citizens to exercise their democratic rights.
While Bluestone ...
... in defense of resources, of life. We have a system that responds to the logic of death, with a form of "development" that is making our planet sick and killing it.
We are there fighting, while the system ...
... regulations, instructions, resolutions, standards, agreements and other general provisions […] will remain in force […] while they are not expressly repealed or modified”. This ambiguity clearly opens ...
... by 2.2% to 3,925 per dollar, while the General Index S&P / BVL Peru fell 6.9% at 1:12 p.m. In New York. The yield on Peru's 10-year dollar bonds rose 15 points to 2.81% and the price fell 1.2 cents to 99.6 ...
... are devastating to the well-being of rural communities and Indigenous peoples, while allowing private corporations to sue governments over hard-fought social and environmental protections.
Case in ...
... see now are rocks and an open-pit mine that’s getting deeper and deeper.”
Meanwhile, should Sagittarius (SMI) be allowed to push through with the Tampakan Copper and Gold Mining Project’s, the same fate ...
... Meanwhile, House Bill 6450, or the Open Pit Mining Ban bill, aims to impose a moratorium on the open pit method of mining for copper, gold, silver and complex ores in the country.
Both bills were introduced ...
... land distribution, and a moratorium on land conversion, while the Ayuda Act aims to give out P10,000 in cash assistance for the poorest Filipinos.
“These measures are sound, reasonable, and much more ...
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But Ivanhoe Mines is not the only Canadian company operating in the Philippines. While Claver said corporate mining ownership has been difficult for civil society to track due to a “global practice of ...
... to respect any existing commitments…”
While such community activities may seem innocuous to an outside observer, the Xinka Parliament of Guatemala and the peaceful resistance movement has decried the ...
... was supposed to be a breath of fresh air. But there has been far more continuity than change since Trudeau replaced Harper. While Trudeau and his party might pay lip service to environmental and labor ...
... criminalization, social media attacks and constant threats. Several residents have been forced to flee Honduras to escape criminal persecution. Meanwhile, the state uses corruption and police repression ...
... (e.g. for renewables infrastructure) – although without changing its damaging practices on the ground.
While extensive documentation exists, along with complaints in national courts and international ...
... to data from the Mines and Geosciences Bureau (MGB).
While other sectors in the country have declined due to the pandemic and the lockdowns imposed in response to it, mining actually grew by 1.13%, driven ...