Democracy and Governance Archives - Institute for Policy Studies

Salvadoran protestors holding up black and yellow signs that read "Libertad para los lideres comunitarios."

Is Mining Money Behind the Arrest of Salvadoran Water Defenders?

The five detainees include leaders of the campaign that won the world’s first metals mining ban in 2017 — a ban the cash-strapped government may be moving to overturn.

251 Organizations from 29 countries call on Salvadoran government to drop the charges against leading Water Defenders arrested on January 11

John Cavanagh, Olivia Alperstein

Organizaciones internacionales piden al gobierno salvadoreño que retire los cargos contra Defensores del Agua detenidos el 11 de enero [TEXTO EN ESPAÑOL ABAJO]

stacks of coin of varying heights on a table with an aminated graph behind it.

Oxfam Wants To More than Double the Tax Rate on Our Richest

Sam Pizzigati

That bold a hike, our U.S. history suggests, can actually happen.

gray scale fists reaching up through a Ukrainian flag

Solidarity with Ukraine

Bill Fletcher, Jr.

The Ukraine Solidarity Network believes that the victims of aggression have every right to defend themselves and should receive the support of those who support national self-determination and justice.

Donor-Advised Fund Numbers Still Obscure Who’s Giving and How Much

Dan Petegorsky

Publishers of donor-advised fund data are including hundreds of thousands of workplace giving accounts in their averages. That skews the picture.

Institute for Policy Studies calls on Salvadoran government to release from prison leading Water Defenders arrested on January 11

John Cavanagh, Manuel Perez-Rocha, Olivia Alperstein

Hundreds of groups around the world worked with the Salvadoran Water Defenders in the successful campaign to save the country’s rivers from toxic gold mining. They join in demanding the release of the five Water Defenders and to allow them to await their trial in their community.