... movements, environmentalists and human rights defenders gathered in El Salvador to participate in the IV Regional Meeting of the Central American Alliance against Mining -ACAFREMIN.
The meeting aimed ...
Gloria Silvia Orellana - Diario CoLatino
Manuel Pérez Rocha, fellow from the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS), participated in the Regional Meeting of the Central American Alliance Against Mining. ...
... El Salvador participated in a demonstration outside the Commerce Group’s corporate offices in Milwaukee, where they spilled orange salad dressing, symbolizing the mine’s acid drainage. The company, says ...
... where Mining Watch Canada participated, released a press statement entitled: “There are no winners in the Pacific Rim Mining Company VS El Salvador”.
The statement focused on the arbitration of the International ...
... through the Ministry of the Environment and Natural Resources, MARN. The bill was welcomed by social organizations who had participated widely in a public consultation process led by the legislative Commission ...
... to the environment." As part of our strategy to unmask this myth and the company's persistent lies, the university invited the governor of Nueva Vizcaya to come to El Salvador and participate in our Week ...
... from 22 organizations in 12 countries participated in five days of conferences and strategy workshops and visits to mining-affected municipalities in the north of the country. A documentary ‘Gold Or Water‘ was ...
... everyone to participate in this march to request the approval of the Law to Ban Mining, and to present the signatures that have been collected,” the Archbishop of San Salvador, Monsignor Escobar Alas, ...
... that the communities participate and make their own efforts to preserve their livelihoods and stop mining in El Salvador.
In any case, when current president, Salvador Sánchez Cerén, came to power in ...
... in the department of Cabañas were asked to participate in a public referendum, to be held in the next months, to give their opinion in favor or against metal mining within their territory.
Cinquera is ...
... raising efforts. Vidalina Morales from ADES has been coordinating for years the resistance in the region. Even young people participate in the movement, like Beatriz from La Maraña. She informs the population ...
... process of calling a referendum.
Then, the referendum takes place. The elections take place publicly, and the voters can come and participate throughout the day. Such elections are not difficult to organize, ...
... Slovakia and Romania to report on the social resistance against gold mining in El Salvador, to participate in public events, lobby meetings with elected politicians, civil society organizations and press ...
... NGOs that participate in the process of verification.
For local coverage see:
Arcatao prepara consulta popular contra la minería métalica
http://www.diariocolatino.com/arcatao-prepara-consulta-popular-contra-la-mineria-metalica/ ...
By: Antonia Recinos - Radio Victoria / Translation: Sigrun Pallesen and Marina Bonetti
On the 15th of August 2015, I was invited to participate in a mission of solidarity to the region of Didipío, ...
... hundred anti-mining activists from mining affected communities in Cabañas arrived at the San Salvador Cathedral this past Sunday to participate in a special service to commemorate the fifth anniversary ...
... country like El Salvador. To find the most recent video on mining in El Salvador click here
Participate and promote digital actions by tweeting and sending Facebook and email messages to the company ...
... discuss the impact of the Cerro Blanco Mine in El Salvador.
Days six and seven:
Participate as international observers in a community consultation process in Chalatenango.
Day eight:
Press ...
... making process on environmental issues.
Since early 2013, many environmental groups participated in a national consultation process, led by Angel Ibarra, to develop an environmental agenda for the ...
... under the National Roundtable against Metallic Mining took to the streets to reiterate their full rejection to metal mining in the country. On this occasion members of la Mesa participated in a simultaneous ...