... of Central and South America.
“If multinational corporations are able to work together globally on the basis of profit, we (affected communities) should be able to work together on the basis of solidarity” ...
... and Refugee Clinical Program / Greater Boston Legal Services (HIRC/GBLS) (USA)
Heal Together Wellness Services
Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (USA)
Institute for Policy Studies – Global ...
... and two directors from COMURES (a private corporation that brings together municipalities of El Salvador). Both institutions are closely linked with ARENA and add four votes while the executive government ...
... composed of more than seventy social movement organizations bringing together a range environmental, students, unions, faith, farmers and women’s organizations who have vowed to continue fighting until ...
Andrés McKinley - UK LAB
On March 29th, 2017, the small country of El Salvador became the first nation in the world to exercise its sovereign right to say “no” to metallic mining after carefully analyzing ...
... Bad River coming to support Planned Parenthood and vice versa,” he says. Imagine teachers, farmers, environmentalists, health workers, all working together. “That’s how they got the ban. There’s a lot ...
... human rights from Canadian government support,” said Coumans.
MiningWatch Canada started the lengthy process that led to this announcement in 2005, and together with other members of the Canadian Network ...
... the territory, the local government with the entire population represented a strong opposition factor and we all did it together for the defense of the life. This is something essential, if we want to ...
By Andrés McKinley : NCR
SAN SALVADOR, EL SALVADOR, There are times in life when things come together, forces galvanize, pieces fall into place and processes take on a magical quality that keeps you wondering ...
... around the mines.4
Community groups linked together across El Salvador and found allies in the Catholic Church and in groups in the capital city of San Salvador that worked on human rights and development. ...
... 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 ...
... shortly before the bill was put to a vote.
Francis Zablah, a legislator from GANA, one of the three main political parties in the country together with the FMLN and ARENA, lauded the multi-partisan commission ...
... subject of national interest, and of the life of everyone,” he stated.
While the Mayor of Arcatao, José Alberto Avelar, indicated that together with other members of the City Councils of San José Las ...
... been realized in four municipalities in the Department of Chalatenango. Among those that have joined together in rejecting mining are: San José Las Flores, San Isidro Labrador, Nueva Trinidad, and Arcatao. ...
... Sensuntepeque, Cabañas, brought together various non-governmental organizations, community members and relatives of the victims.
Mr. Guevara commented that as relatives of victims, Ramiro Rivera and ...
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What they wanted was to extract the rich veins of gold buried near the Lempa River, the water source for more than half of El Salvador’s 6.2 million people. Instead, local farmers and others came together ...
... of the armed conflict during the 1980s as a refugee in Mesa Grande, Honduras, and is now a member of the Santa Marta Community, expressed her joy at the result of the arbitration award and said that together ...
... countries, which came together in 2009 as International Allies, praised the communities in El Salvador that have opposed the mining company and have rallied the Salvadoran public and government to oppose ...
... people’s opposition both in its host and home countries.
In the WSF workshop, Mr. Pedro Cabezas of the International Allies to Stop Mining in El Salvador discussed how the El Salvadoran people came together ...
... drinking water and the defense of natural resources in their own environment. Communities and social organizations have come together to create a resistance against this industry that could be the key ...