... System, nor the cross-border threats that may impact its basin.
It is a law that will privatize water in El Salvador. According to Article 71 of the law, the ASA will authorize the use of water to private ...
... The struggle led by communities affected by the threat of mining lasted more than twelve years, and this struggle was joined by different sectors of Salvadoran society and the international community that ...
... they reaffirmed their “rejection of the mining project as destructive and a threat to the life of the population and their natural commons.”
Almost seven years earlier to the day, on May 23, 2014, police ...
... but this provincial ordinance is under threat as it is currently being “reviewed” by the Sangguniang Panlalawigan, notwithstanding a court decision upholding it as in line with the mandate of the Constitution ...
... biggest blows to efforts to preserve natural resources in the country.
It was also seen to escalate threats against communities opposing mining projects. In 2019, the Philippines topped the list of nations ...
... threats and intimidation, illegal arrests, harassment lawsuits, and forced displacement.
For instance, in April last year, the Philippine police nabbed Roland Pulido, chairman of Didipio Earth Saver’s ...
... one land defender in January, an armed attack against a Xinka delegate to the consultation process in April, and death threats against others. In April of this year, 3,900+ individuals signed a petition ...
... projects that are environmentally destructive and threaten the livelihoods of surrounding communities.
According to ICHRP-Toronto member Angela Asuncion, 60 percent of transnational mines in the Philippines ...
Counterpunch
Jen Moore
In the wake of a shooting attack, death threats, and fear of further violence against members of the peaceful resistance to Pan American Silver’s Escobal silver mine in Guatemala, ...
... about the mine’s potential ecological damage. In their attempts to defend their territories, local leaders have been surveilled, threatened, injured and imprisoned, and some, like Morazán, have been killed. ...
... disasters.
Duterte -- who had previously threatened to shut down the mining sector completely -- is facing growing criticism over his handling of the pandemic that has crippled the economy and thrown ...
... assassination. Events lent credibility to their suspicions: In the months after the murder, activists were flooded with death threats and two other mining opponents were gunned down.
Despite the brutality ...
... organizations around the world publicly denounced transnational mining companies for ignoring the threat of the Covid19 pandemic and continuing to operate normally. The communiqué, based on extensive research, ...
... firearms to intimidate them. Residents were beaten and one was shot by OceanaGold security personnel.
The report noted that OceanaGold “is largely responsible for the continuing threats to security of ...
... mining permits in the Philippines. The order is expected to ease the entry of at least 291 existing mining applications, escalating threats to the environment and its defenders, anti-mining and environmental ...
... river system that provides water for over half the country’s population. Over the past two decades, this river system was threatened by a giant mining company that wanted to mine gold near the rivers. ...
... been under threat from international mining companies for decades, companies that are after El Salvador's gold. But an unlikely alliance came together to stop them. People on opposite sides of the bitter ...
... at the consular level in the Philippines and through its lack of corporate accountability mechanisms at home. “When some of the villagers were falsely accused, facing threats of extrajudicial killing because ...
... decision to interrupt the progress of a large-scale irrigation project. Peru has been threatened with additional cases in relation to a gas-distribution concession, the operation of a port on its southern ...
... with corporate greed; a transnational lawsuit at a secretive World Bank tribunal in Washington, DC; violent threats; murders; and, surprisingly, victory. The husband-and-wife duo immerses the reader in ...