Threats and Attacks to Religious Leader in Cabañas
January 2012
A new series of threats towards environmentalists have disrupted the uneasy calm that had settled over Cabañas after almost eight months ...
... a considerable source of inspiration within the religious sectors in Guatemala.”
Preparing an EIA for a major extractive project always requires consulting the affected communities, but the lack of ...
... severe human rights violations, reinforced by harmful rhetoric from high-level officials against human rights organizations, lawyers, political, judicial actors, journalists, trade unionists, and religious ...
... government, and religious sectors, lobbied for the permanent suspension of operation of Oceanagold, citing both environmental and human rights atrocities. It was in October last year that the company suspended ...
... Walk allowed the various environmental, human rights, religious, women, and youth organizations that make up this space, to carry out an evaluation of the state of the country's natural resources.
The ...
... of the National Alliance against the Privatization of Water, accompanied by religious and academic leaders, presented, on February 6th, a renewed citizen proposal for a General Water Law at the Legislative ...
... (USA)
Chicago-Guatemala Partnership (USA)
Chicago Religious Leadership Network on Latin America (USA)
Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador (CISPES)(USA)
Cooperation Operation ...
... mining project) the area was left deserted and the damaged, and the impacts are similar in any country of the world" said Teresa Garcia, a religious of the Assumption, who has worked for 31 years with ...
By Robin Broad and John Cavanagh : The Hill
This week, labor, environmental, religious and other groups, representing over 180 million people from around the world, sent a letter to a corporate mining ...
... industry is not viable for the environment, people's health and burdens the ability to deal with the effects of pollution.
"Different sectors of the country have proposed a ban on mining (religious, academic ...
... Salvador, Jose Luis Escobar Alas, said in a press conference Sunday.
The religious leader of the Catholic-majority country stressed that there must be legislation to outlaw mining in order to ensure ...
... operations in the country.
The organized community groups that work in favor of human, environmental, religious, and youth rights that make up La Mesa were present at the Legislative Assembly. Reacting ...
... Religious Leadership Network on Latin America (CLRN)
Columban Center for Advocacy and Outreach
Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador (CISPES)
Corporate Accountability International ...
... point for a gold mining project. Even though mining activity has been idle in over a decade, residents of Las Flores and surrounding communities make a religious journey through the mountains every September ...
... three times on the Salvadorean Government to prohibit mining” states Bishop Elias Rauda, during a religious service previous to this year’s event in La Maraña. “El Salvador has no conditions for metal ...
... associations, NGOs, religious and academic groups with the common objective of achieving the prohibition of metallic mining in El Salvador.
The decision to hold the event in front of the World ...
... assembly candidates appear to have no interest in environmental issues such as mining.
The National Roundtable against Metallic Mining and other social, religious, ecological and research organizations ...
... about their suffering. All that information helped us raise awareness among our population to stop the mine.”
To make it even more difficult to for the company to enter their territory, religious members ...
For Immediate Release
Members of National Roundtable Against Metallic Mining in El Salvador, a broad alliance of religious, research, environmental, and community development organizations who seek to ...
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Australian Manufacturing Workers Union
Catholic Religious Australia
Central American Pastoral House
Communist Party of Australia WA Branch
Conference of Leaders of Religious Institutes in ...