Backgrounder
CAFTA Investor Rights Undermining Democracy and the Environment: Commerce Group Case
The Commerce Group Corporation, a mining firm registered and based in Wisconsin, is the second multinational ...
... all the requirements. This decision was made possible thanks to issued about the environmental, social and economic impacts of mining raised by the National Roundtable against Metallic Mining; the resistance ...
... (or around) April 22 (Earth Day) and to finish on April 30th.
We are asking groups like yours to join Salvadoran social movement organizations in organizing solidarity actions to take place in cities ...
... a murder during the country’s twelve-year civil war (1980–1992). In the context of Bukele’s increasing openness toward mining, however, some in El Salvador and around the world are questioning the true ...
... wear white shorts. They're surrounded by police officers with assault riffles. Some have '18' tattooed on their backs, signifying they are members of a gang. ‘It’s a war on the people’: El Salvador’s mass ...
... of ADES)
The water defenders started speaking out against industrial mining around 2005, when the rising price of gold attracted increased interest in the untapped deposits across northern El Salvador. ...
... crusade to criminalize, persecute, and demobilize its political opponents," adds the statement, spearheaded by the U.S.-based Institute for Policy Studies (IPS)—which in 2009 honored the National Roundtabl ...
... paramilitary groups, including the massacres perpetrated in Santa Marta and surrounding communities, by troops from the Sensuntepeque Military Detachment No2, led by the recently deceased Colonel Sigifredo ...
... mining project that poses environmentmental threats for both Guatemalan and Salvadoran communities.
The International Observation Mission was made up of the National Roundtable Against Metal Mining ...
... "intends" to change the underground tunnel mining methodology, by open-pit mining.
In 2007, the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources of Guatemala, after approving an environmental impact study, ...
... "intends" to change the underground tunnel mining methodology, by open-pit mining.
In 2007, the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources of Guatemala, after approving an environmental impact study, ...
... the tri national basin of the Lempa River is a resource shared as a unitary set of superficial and underground water bodies that flow to a common river mouth, as such it is an important resource that guarantees ...
... are surrounded by organized crime. We are there, however, promoting a project of life and food sovereignty. We are looking to have a coconut production to rebuild the diet of the Garífuna people. Next ...
... Alliance against the Privatization of Water, the Roundtable of Churches in El Salvador and the Central American University state the following:
The Law continues to harm the rural and urban Community ...
... economic, legal and environmental aspects"
According to MARN, “El Salvador recently joined this Forum, which includes 78 countries around the world and which provides a series of services to its members, ...
CLICK THE PHOTO TO DOWNLOAD REPORT IN SPANISHOn the fourth anniversary of the historic ban on metal mining in El Salvador, the National Roundtable Against metallic mining of El Salvador released a report ...
... Peru have already been counted, while only 21% of the votes abroad have been counted. Around 997,000 Peruvians were authorized to vote abroad and so far Fujimori has won 63% of the votes cast.
For investors, ...
... against, even though two other mines were suspended on similar grounds. The reality is that local communities are the ones whose rights have been trampled. KCA did not fulfil environmental regulations ...
... the president said in the executive order.
According to the DENR, over a hundred mining projects in the pipeline could potentially generate P21 billion or around $438 million in revenues, which would ...
... them to voluntarily take measures to do so.
“All around the world, people are being harmed by the business practices of Canadian companies and their subsidiaries, subcontractors and suppliers,” said ...