D. Kingsbury 2014, OXFAM Australia
This report examines the issues of the El Dorado gold mine project, and past and potential future impacts that has and already had on the Salvadoran environment, society ...
... took this opportunity to introduce legislative proposals to reflect the principles established by the UN and proposals for a constitutional reform to recognize the rights to food and water a basic human ...
Investor Rights Strip Communities of their Basic National Sovereignty
On the day of the expected Pacific Rim decision, the National Roundtable against Metallic Mining organized a press conference with ...
... the country. We also have concerns that these men have been denied their basic right to due process,” 17 U.S. members of Congress said in a letter earlier this month.
Known locally as “water defenders,” ...
... and above all to guarantee the protection of their human and universal rights, such as the right to water and basic sanitation.
We call on the citizens of Guatemala and El Salvador, through their ...
... be supplied to populations. The first two meet the basic family needs for food, personal hygiene, cleaning, including raising domestic animals that do not constitute a commercial or lucrative activity; ...
... a basic human right, the current administration continues to prioritize the interests of large companies over the interests of poor communities, approving projects that threaten sites for the recharging ...
... to future campaigns. The water defenders are guided by three basic strategies: maintaining a positive message, recruiting unlikely allies, and building international support.
From early on in the dispute, ...
... it a very profitable operation for Glencore. Mining activity in Espinar began more than three decades ago, and the province still suffers from many basic deficiencies. Over this time, a number of conflicts ...
... mining companies use cyanide to separate the gold from the rock. That cyanide then gets into the water. El Salvador is a very small country and El Salvador basically has one main river that supplies more ...
... in Crawfish Rock, Roatán, as she remembers her grandmother who passed away last May at 90 years old. “She was the one who fought for us to have the road, the school, water, all of the basic projects… the ...
... to cultivating basic grains or the production of poultry to survive. The rest of the inhabitants decide to migrate. In fact, most of the locals have at least one relative living and working in the United ...
... superpowers and the oppressive governments and systems continue to intensify widening inequality. Exacerbated neglect and discrimination to their access to health and basic services has been a grave threat ...
... dust, water loss, and water or soil contamination, increasing their vulnerability to infection. They often lack basic services and may be battling other diseases related to impoverishment and isolation, ...
... m3 of water are “lost” in the ocean. However, arguing that “these waters have no use” is an absolutely arbitrary statement that ignores the basic concepts of hydrological cycles. It is important to point ...
... great lessons: That we can never forget how important powerful stories are rooted in local realities, and how they defend the most basic and important things for life, as water is, it is a powerful and ...
... framework to protects the defenders. Moreover, the Government of El Salvador has not signed the so-called Escazú Agreement, which basically recognizes the right of access to information in environmental ...
... groups later claimed that the killings were perpetrated by a government-backed paramilitary group. The Philippine Army has denied any links to the group.
“We are basically living with half of our body ...
... treasures).
Founded in 1994, the company is basically dedicated to developing technology to recover and commercialize wrecks of sunken ships, a business that allowed them to be listed in the New York ...
... Law. But, within the new balance of power, the correlation of strength and transnational interests are aligning under a government that seems servile to the interests of corporations, and which basically ...