... 27, is the president of the Triunfo de la Cruz community board and also a member of the Honduran Black Fraternal Organization (OFRENEH). He campaigned for Honduras to fulfill a 2015 ruling by the Inter-American ...
... is scary to think what further harm might be brought to communities from more protection of this sort,” Ellen Moore, International Mining Campaign Manager, Earthworks.
KCA’s lawsuit is emblematic of ...
... also sustained a defamation campaign against water defenders to divide communities and undermine the work of local organizations, like the San Alonzo Rodríguez Foundation.
What is truly essential ...
... year campaign, metallic mining was banned in El Salvador in March 2017, but the struggle of Salvadorean anti mining activists is far from over. Vidalina Morales, president of the Santa Marta Association ...
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Along with this, CGN-PRONICO launched a campaign by corporate media to delegitimize the sentence emitted by Constitutional Court and organized a sit-in in front of the building that houses the Constitutional ...
... to free political prisoners and low-level offence inmates to decongest inhumanely overcrowded prison facilities.
Incarcerated defenders like scientist and campaigner Delai Padilla, anti-mining village ...
... a requirement to hold town hall meetings (Cabildo Abierto) on matters that affect the lives of local communities. As a result, local organizations organized under the Committee have launched a campaign ...
... a collective strategy of resistance against the mining operation due to environmental and water scarcity concerns in the Central American country. Despite a campaign of criminalization and defamation, ...
... Philippines to launch the Save Nueva Vizcaya Movement, a national campaign to protect the environment, natural resources, and people’s rights in the nationally significant watershed and biodiverse province ...
... mining in Nueva Vizcaya
The campaign against OceanaGold denounced the 25 years of environmental destruction and exploitation threatening ethnocide against indigenous communities in the Philippines. ...
Sakura Saunders : Now Magazine
After more than a decade of campaigning for oversight of Canadian mining corporations abroad, the feds appear to be backpedaling on gains won by human rights advocates ...
... as well as the broader campaign against the corporate-friendly investor-rights provisions in "free trade" agreements.
Brent Patterson is a political activist and writer.
Photo: Peace Brigades International ...
... as ‘La Puya’, and have resisted repeated eviction attempts, suffering repression by state and private security forces. Despite an ongoing campaign of criminalization and defamation, and a renewed military ...
... Peoples Development Program(OPDP)(KENIA)
OrganizationActions pour le Développement Communautaire (BURUNDI)
ASIA
ALTSEAN-Burma
AMIHAN NATIONAL FEDERATION OF PEASANT WOMEN(Philippines)
Campaign ...
... processes of criminalization are not limited just to legal cases, but also include smear campaigns and in some cases of defamation against spokespersons or representatives of indigenous communities. All ...
... cases against communities, but also smear campaigns, discrimination and violent coercion on the part of the State.
The objective is clear: to suppress social organisation in order to facilitate the extraction ...
... the country. Salvadoran campaigns continue towards demanding justice for murdered environment defenders and activists. In the Philippines, community organisations include the Samahang Pangkarapatan ng ...
... Angel, La Cabaña, Chaparrastique, Jiboa and people linked to the industry as Tomas Regalado Dueñas and Tomas Regalado O'sullivan, disbursed at least $ 3.2 million in political campaign donations mainly ...
... the legislative electoral campaign already in full swing.
The results of the March 4th legislative elections strengthened the balance of power in favor of ARENA and the pro-business right wing ...
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 ...