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21. Criminalization increases against environmental defenders and social movements of the Central American region: (Regional News); ... mainly in rural, indigenous and Garifuna communities. In Nicaragua, repression against government dissidents includes environmental defenders who have ceased their defense for fear of repression, while ...; Created on 26 December 2019
22. Study reveals the threats of the Cerro Blanco mine: (Cerro Blanco); ... of thermal water extracted from the Cerro Blanco project. A press release by the National Roundtable against Mining highlights that the first people to be affected by the mine will be rural women who utilize water ...; Created on 26 December 2019
23. Honduran Land Defenders Receive the prestigious Letelier-Moffit award in Washington: (Regional News); ... escalating conflict between big landowners and small farmers whose lands are being illegally occupied to make way for the palm oil industry. The impacts of the conflict on the rights of the local rural ...; Created on 24 October 2019
24. Land Defenders Are Killed in the Philippines for Protesting Canadian Mining: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... contributed 5 percent—$97 billion—to Canada’s total GDP and held $169 billion in assets overseas. Canada also boasts that the industry has directly or indirectly created 630,000 jobs in urban, rural, and ...; Created on 04 October 2019
25. Mining Grabs Up Land, Deals Blow to Agriculture in Central America: (Background and reports ); Edgardo Ayala - IPS The installations of the silver mine located in the rural municipality of San Rafael Las Flores, in Guatemala, have been closed since 2017, as the result of a Constitutional Court ...; Created on 07 May 2019
26. ENDORSERS / SIGNATARIOS: (La Puya International Support Letter); ... Solidaridad con Guatemala en Zürich (NETHERLANDS) Rural Women's Association Alga (KYRGYZTAN) Salva la Selva (SPAIN) Save Our Sperrins (SOS)(NORTHERN IRELAND) Terra SOS-tenible (ESPANA) The Gaia ...; Created on 25 February 2019
27. THE STRUGGLE FOR GOOD WATER GOVERNANCE CONTINUES IN EL SALVADOR: (Water Crisis El Salvador); ... The scientific evidence is supported by the experience of thousands of inhabitants of urban slums who spend months without access to water, of poor communities in the rural sector who depend on increasingly ...; Created on 27 August 2018
28. El Salvador: first anniversary of the mining ban A cause for celebration, but the new law faces dangers: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); 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 ...; Created on 22 June 2018
29. Central Americans Demand to be Consulted About Mining Projects: (Regional News); ... in the department of Santa Rosa. The roadblock has been mounted by the inhabitants of Casillas, a neighbouring rural municipality, located a few kilometres down the road, and which cannot be avoided ...; Created on 09 May 2018
30. Church in El Salvador backs law declaring clean, affordable water as a human right: (Water Crisis El Salvador); ... water, despite being charged for municipal water. He recalls his rural hometown, where water flowed from nearby springs and was regulated by community boards. “Where my parents live, the village still ...; Created on 08 May 2018
31. COMMUNIQUE: The State of the Right to Free Prior and Informed Consent in the CA4 Region: (Media Releases); ... of the common goods. The harmful effects of these politics have affected mainly indigenous peoples, rural / peasant communities and environmental defenders who have experienced harsh repression, prosecution ...; Created on 08 May 2018
32. How El Salvador Won on Mining: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... years, according to Pedro Cabezas, who runs the mining and human rights program of CRIPDES, the largest rural organization in the country and a leader in the Salvadoran social movement. It is a story of ...; Created on 07 May 2018
33. Latin American Women Weaving Territories: (Media Releases); ... to even greater threats, even though we play an important role in the defense of the territory. In Latin America, 58 million women live in rural areas, yet only 30% of those women actually own land, while ...; Created on 01 February 2018
34. PRESS RELEASE: To the national and international public opinion: (Media Releases); ... management systems in rural communities; SECOND, there are clear mechanisms for the effective participation of the population; THIRD, effective mechanisms are created to protect and recover priority ...; Created on 21 July 2017
35. In El Salvador, a moment more precious than gold: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... a meeting with President Salvador Sánchez Cerén and — confident of our incipient victory — a celebration at the close of the week with the rural communities most threatened by mining. El Salvador had ...; Created on 26 June 2017
36. How Local, Grassroots Organizing Drove El Salvador’s Mining Ban: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... of Cinquera) and ADESCO (Associations for Community Development) joined with CRIPDES (the Association for the Development of El Salvador), a national-level NGO that has helped rural Salvadorans organize ...; Created on 26 June 2017
37. El Salvador Passes Historic Law To Ban Metal Mining: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... listed by the United Nations as one of the most environmentally degraded countries in the Latin America, and that’s without any major mining operations. The enormous threat of large-scale mining for rural ...; Created on 16 April 2017
38. All Endorsers: (Open Letter OceanaGold); ... Asociaciòn Salvadoreña de Ayuda Humanitaria Centro de Investigaciòn Sobre Inversiòn y Comercio CESTA Comite de Comunidades Rurales de Chalatenango, CCR Colectivo de Derechos Humanos Herbert Anaya ...; Created on 28 December 2016
39. El Salvador Lessons for the TPP Fight: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... that allow these “investor-state” lawsuits. The executives of a global mining corporation assumed it would be easy to get their way in Cabañas, a rural region of northern El Salvador. They were wrong. ...; Created on 10 November 2016
40. For grassroots organizations, the fight to protect water and local communities continues, now on a larger scale: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... industries. Along with other rural organizations, they created the National Roundtable against Metallic Mining, which was crucial in achieving the positive ruling in favor of the Central American country. ...; Created on 10 November 2016

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