By: Antonia Recinos - Radio Victoria / Translation: Sigrun Pallesen and Marina Bonetti
On the 15th of August 2015, I was invited to participate in a mission of solidarity to the region of Didipío, ...
... Resistance of La Puya (La Resistencia Pacifica La Puya) reaffirms its commitment to peaceful struggle in the defence of life, nature, and land.
We call on the population to be on guard against whatever ...
... road to the mine. In response, community members in Tocoa, including Morazán, established the Municipal Committee for the Defence of Public and Common Goods to campaign against the dispossession of natural ...
... explaining that the defence could not be prepared due to the pandemic. However the CPA refused the request. The Bolivian case was picked up in an open letter signed by more than 650 organizations around ...
... Canada has continued to provide military aid. “Given the grave human rights situation in the Philippines, Canada should not be selling the country military equipment and providing defence cooperation,” ...
... oxide mine.
By 2017 the Municipal Committee for the Defence of Public and Common Goods had been created and called for public consultations so that community members could decide whether they wanted ...
... rights defenders. Since September 2019, the lawyers for the defence of these human rights defenders have worked tirelessly to have the men freed but despite submitting one appeal and attending three pre-trial ...
... military has accused her of defending communist rebels. But she is convinced the defence of Philippine land, especially ancestral land, is her life’s purpose. “When I saw the killings, I was afraid. I’m ...
DHUMA -Human Rights and Environment- from Puno, Peru has been recognised for their tireless work in defence of indigenous rights in southern Peru with prestigious international human rights prize.
DEMOCRACY ...
... with a solid legal defence, not only led the company to lose, but cleared the way for Salvadorans to ban all metallic mining country-wide in March 2017,” said report co-author and global economy researcher ...
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Local companies tied to foreign capital drive the push to privatize water magament and services in El Salvador.
The fight for the defence of water in El Salvador and the recent conflicts ...
... rally we name the courageous people whose blood was spilt in defence of their community.
Marcelo Rivera
Ramiro Rivera
Felicita Escheverria
Dora Alicia Recinos Soto and her unborn child
Jose Duran ...
... Against Metallic Mining are reaffirming their commitment to ensure the small Central American country continues to be an example to the world in the defence of precious water supplies. They are also warning ...
... Pérez-Rocha, “we were able to weave together the strands of this narrative, connecting water, health and the local defence of resources and territory to the imposition of corporate power by means of instruments ...
... to its legal defence, and the chill effect on efforts to get a ban on metal mining in El Salvador during the last seven years are the real price that Salvadorans have already paid for this suit.
The Fight ...
Vidalina Morales, president, Association for Economic and Social Development of El Salvador (ADES) interviewed for The Guardian in response to the murder of Honduran activist Berta Caceres.
I felt ...
... allow citizens to decide on issues of transcendence in their municipalities.
"For the Ombudsman for the Defence of Human Rights is clear that the population has given a specific message and you must comply ...
... defending sovereign states against lawsuits lodged by multinational corporations. He is the lawyer for the defence in an obscure but increasingly powerful field of international law – where foreign investors ...
... implementation of labour laws, because it limited the list of rights. The Chamber noted that the catalogue of rights in CAFTA "does not leave workers defenceless," because there are other existing rights ...
... of Pacific Rim Vs El Salvador were laid out in Washington on September 22 and the ICSID panel has an indefinite time to issue a ruling. El Salvador’s defence team, however, speculate that it could take ...