22/02/2022.- We would like to invite you to the public launching of a new book titled Catholic Peacebuilding and Mining: Integral Peace, Development and Ecology. The book is the result of a multiyear and multifaceted initiative by Catholic Peacebuilding Network on the interconnections between peace, conflict, and extractives. Drawing together theology, ethics, and praxis, the …
Amandla! (en espagnol)
par Alicia Aleman Arrastio AMANDLA. AWETHU. El poder, para la gente. Nuestro primer día en el Foro Social de la Minería e Industrias Extractivas ha empezado con ese poderoso grito a favor de la justicia y la dignidad de los pueblos. Las cerca de 300 personas que hemos venido de todos los rincones del mundo …
Amandla!
Alicia Aleman Arrastio (second from right) writes from Johannesburg where she is attending the Thematic Social Forum on Mining and the Extractivist Economy with other members of the Justice in Mining Network AMANDLA, AWETHU. Power to the people. Our first day in the Thematic Social Forum on Mining and Extractives Industries has started with this …
Justice in Mining Participates in Global Forum in South Africa
Nine members of the Justice in Mining network will travel to Johannesburg next week to participate in the Thematic Social Forum on Mining and the Extractivist Economy. The Justice in Mining representatives will join more than 300 delegates from faith-based and community groups around the globe to discuss issues arising from mining activity, including environmental …
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Mining and environmental justice: The struggle for water, health, and human security in Honduras
By Fernando Serrano, Ph.D., Saint Louis University; Pedro Landa, ERIC Honduras Orlando Posadas, ERIC Honduras Mercy Ayala, ERIC Honduras; Gustavo Cardoza, ERIC Honduras What is the impact of extractive industries such as mining in Honduras? And how are people in poor rural communities responding? With the support of the US Jesuit Conference and the Jesuit …
Civic Space Under Threat
by Alicia Aleman Arrastio A long and bloody shadow of violence and poverty covers the history of many resource-rich countries. That shadow has also been named a curse by some authors, the media and part of the public opinion: the natural resources curse. According to that thinking, the richer a country is in natural resources …