... be careful, because you already are already in their sights, they will make you disappear at any moment", he said.
The fight against mining has generated, in effect, persecution and violence against ...
... the mine are fully addressed and that a fair and transparent Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) is completed. Issues of past violence must be addressed and a full and impartial investigation into the ...
... correlates the country’s unequal access to water with its infamous levels of crime, including gang-related violence: “We are convinced that all this social injustice, the violation of rights, the segregation ...
... institutions trusted to promote and oversee the protection of human rights to monitor the dire situation of violence faced by human rights defenders in the region.
As member organizations and allies ...
... Violence escalated in June 2009 when community leader and vocal anti-mining activist Marcelo Rivera went missing in the town of San Isidro. His body was found two weeks later, rotting inside a water well, ...
... our governments are giving in concession large extensions of land to transnational corporations.
The context of violence, stigma and criminalization to which we, women who fight from our territories ...
... presence soon erupted in violence. A national movement against metallic mining in El Salvador was born with the formation of the National Roundtable Against Metallic Mining. The opposition found unlikely ...
Sandra Cuffe : Waging NonViolence
Communities and organizations in northern El Salvador continue to organize referendums in an effort to keep their territories free of mining. Established by the country’s ...