... of Our Lady of the Assumption, in Asunción Mita. The objective of the meeting was to analyze the situation after executives of the mining consortium refused to provide access to the facilities of the mine ...
... of Mataquescuintla set up a similar roadblock along the highway north of the mine to prevent mine-related traffic from accessing the site from the other direction.
The road blocks will not end because ...
Andres McKinley
The profound crisis of water resources in El Salvador, in terms of quality, quantity and access, is widely recognized and scientifically documented by national as well as international ...
... Si', on Care for Our Common Home," which said, "Access to potable and secure water is a basic, fundamental and universal human right because it determines the survival of people and therefore is a condition ...
... good that should be publicly managed with focus on sustainability, accessible domestic use and regulation of commercial and industrial use.
The debate has not always been civil, in 2007, 17 leaders ...
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 ...
... has been increasingly vocal about a dire human rights situation in this country: the access to fresh water. In 2017, the archdiocese, along with the Jesuit-run University of Central America, spearheaded ...
... improve the perilous social conditions of the community:
to conduct works to stop the acid drainage and to clean up the contamination left by the company,
to immediately begin works to provide access ...
... Before these violations happened, and up to this date, we were not in possession of a judicial instrument that can help communities to access justice and have companies respect and not prey on our rights ...
... The Foro submitted a draft bill to propose a legislative framework to publicly manage scarce water resources in the country and to prioritize public access over business use. Government officials at the ...