Environmental Justice

WSF: Reconciling Social and Environmental Needs

February 2, 2010

By Mario Osava SALVADOR, Brazil, Jan 31, 2010 (IPS) One of the greatest challenges facing the world today is to attend to the urgent social needs of the planet’s population, and particularly the one billion people living “on the brink of survival”, while dealing with the equally urgent demands of the environment. This warning...
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Justice for the Assassinations in Cabanas, El Salvador: Letter to Pacific Rim Mining Company

January 18, 2010

SIGN-ON LETTER:  Justice for the assassinations in Cabañas, El Salvador, where the Pacific Rim mining company holds gold mining exploration concessions FROM:  CISPES (Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador), www.cispes.org SEND SIGN-ONS TO:  Meredith DeFrancesco: firmarcarta@yahoo.com Dear friends, We are sure that many of you heard about and were very concerned...
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Water Contamination from Mining Gets Worse

October 7, 2009
Water Contamination from Mining Gets Worse

By Copae Last year, the Pastoral Commission for Peace and Ecology (COPAE), in the diocese of San Marcos, Guatemala, issued a report showing increased levels of arsenic in the water.around the Marlin mine. The difference between the data of October 2007, March 2008 and February 2009 is enormous. The range difference between what is...
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“We Are All Crisantas”: Trial of the Goldcorps 5

October 7, 2009
“We Are All Crisantas”: Trial of the Goldcorps 5

By Francois Guindon Rights Action   On September 7th, 2009, some 600 indigenous campesinos from San Miguel Ixtahuacán and other municipalities came to the city of San Marcos to denounce the lack of impartiality in the national judicial system and to denounce the use of the legal system as a strategy of “criminalization of...
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Anti-Mining Movement Wins Human Rights Award

October 7, 2009
Anti-Mining Movement Wins Human Rights Award

By Claudia Rodríguez-Alas SHARE Foundation   The SHARE Foundation congratulates the National Working Group against Mining in El Salvador for winning the 2009 Letelier-Moffitt Memorial Human Rights Award. The award is sponsored by the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) in memory of Orlando Letelier and Ronni Karpen Moffitt. Letelier and Moffitt were killed 1976...
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