... recent weeks, international organizations from five continents have endorsed a public sign-on letter entitled:Stop the Criminalization of Social Protest and Corporate Impunity in Peru!! The initiative ...
... been involved in corruption scandals and the 2009 Coup d’état in Honduras.
These cases also set a dangerous precedent where companies like Pac Rim can sue governments that seek to stop projects that ...
... and we asked whether these businesses have the right to take our rivers, and the vast majority said no,” 69-year-old Mayan Indian Cirilo Acabal Osorio told IPS.
So far they have managed to stop attempts ...
... improve the perilous social conditions of the community:
to conduct works to stop the acid drainage and to clean up the contamination left by the company,
to immediately begin works to provide access ...
... that seeped into it. Local people can’t use the water for drinking, washing, or watering their crops, and there are numerous cases of cancer and respiratory diseases in the area. Most mining stopped during ...
... Association for the Development of El Salvador (CRIPDES), stopesmining@gmail.com, +503-7498-4423
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Jen Moore, MiningWatch Canada, jen@miningwatch.ca, +1 613 569 3439
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Manuel ...
... stop mining projects as well stop a project providing water containing heavy metals to the community, an initiative led by the mayor Sensuntepeque. Miranda said that the communities experience fear due ...
... perseverance was fruitful.
The government stopped the mining project, but the company sued the state in international courts. The case lasted seven years and cost the Salvadoran government $13 million ...