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Worker Driven Monitoring of the Mining Sector
NEWS: Worker Driven Monitoring of the Mining Sector CATAPA is entering a new partnership which will trial worker-driven monitoring of mining operations across three continents. A new pilot project has been launched, in which Electronics Watch will be cooperating with CISEP and CATAPA to establish worker-driven monitoring in the tin mines in Oruro, Bolivia. […]
Speakers Tour 2022 Overview
SPEAKERS TOUR 2022 OVERVIEW The Speakers Tour was a big success! Thank you all so much for making this happen! What a wonderful edition. This year, two environmental defenders, Mirtha and Rosas from Cajamarca, Perú, were invited by Catapa to raise awareness and to talk about their struggle. They shared their story fighting big scale mining […]
Speaker’s Tour Student Event – Citizens Council: Extractivism and KULeuven
Speaker’s Tour Student Event – Citizens Council: Extractivism and KULeuven We do not eat gold, we do not drink oil. (Rosas Duran Carrera, KULeuven Student Event) During this year’s Speaker’s Tour CATAPA organised several events in student campuses across Flanders. On Monday 7th March Rosas travelled to KULeuven to deliver a striking testimony about the […]
Right To Say No – From Ecuador to Belgium
This year two activists and colleagues from Ecuador have participated in the Right To Say No. Danila Andagoya, member of the Youth Network of the Andean Chocó, and Nathalia Bonilla, from Acción Ecológica, have shared their work in defence of the territory and have left us several tips for action from Europe. Both activists are […]
Project NEMO
NEMO Near-zero-waste recycling of low-grade sulphidic mining waste for critical-metal, mineral and construction raw-material production in a circular economy. The issue of mining waste in the EU Source: Historic mining site of Rio Tinto (Huelva, Spain) by Alberto Vázquez Ruiz The mining of non-ferrous metals such as copper, lead, zinc, nickel, antimony and cbalt […]
Mirtha Vasquez visits CATAPA
Mirtha Vasquez visits CATAPA This week Mirtha Vasquez visited CATAPA. She is the director of GRUFIDES and the lawyer for famous environmentalist Maxima Acuña and is based in Peru. The purpose of her visit was to lobby and raise awareness for the Defensoras in Peru and Latin America through public events and a meeting at the EU. […]
Make ICT Fair
Make ICT Fair The Make ICT Fair project began in November of 2017, when a consortium of 11 European organizations joined forces with the ultimate goal of improving the lives and livelihoods of people affected by ICT supply chains. Make ICT Fair was an European funded project (subsidized by the DEAR-programme) that ended in January […]
Guardians of Water
Guardians of water In 1957 the American newspaper The New Yorker published a poem by British poet W. H. Auden, the end of which recited: “Thousands have survived without love. Not one without water”. Indeed, he was right. Despite attempts to raise awareness, today, a part of the world’s population still considers clean water as […]
Fair ICT Flanders
This project is run by the non-profit organization CATAPA vzw, the umbrella organization of Flemish environmental groups Bond Beter Leefmilieu (Society for a Better Environment) and Ondernemers voor Ondernemers (Entrepreneurs for Entrepreneurs) and aims at improving the sustainability of ICT procurement and reuse policies in Flanders. Since 2005, CATAPA has been dealing with the socio-ecological impact of […]
ESC Volunteer Vacancies 2023 – call closed
ESC Volunteer Vacancies 2023 – call closed since 23/07/23 The deadline for this call has passed the 23rd of July 2023 at 23h59. If you are selected for the interviews you will be contacted in the beginning of August. Please try to minimize questions, as there are a lot of interested volunteers. If you still have […]