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In Argentina, thanks to lax laws created during the nineties and today's existing, large multinationals are looking for gold, silver, copper and uranium. This industry uses nine tons of explosives a day to extraction, to separate the gold from the rock are used daily 10 tons of cyanide, in this same process, called leaching by cyanide 300.000 cubic meters of water per day are used.

Just so you know, a single gold ring is equivalent to 18 tons of toxic waste.

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Mr Albert Chen Lichuan

France-China

After spending six years as a lecturer of Chinese in the National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilizations (INALCO), he devoted himself to journalism as the correspondent in France for the Chinese Television Network (Hong Kong). Presently, he is a reporter for the review Transcultural Dialogue as well as the director of the Association Culturemedia and the organizer of the working center on governance in China.

Mr Charles Bakundakwuita

Rwanda-Senegal

Director of the West African Association for the Development of Artisanal Fisheries (WADAF). It is currently implementing a project to train leaders and to articulate a network of women in artisanal fisheries in West and Central Africa.

Mr Georges García

France

Computer engineer. Association for complex thinking

Mr Sergi Escribano

Spain

Empodera consultores

Vivian Braga

Brazil

IBASE

Ana Maria Machado

Uruguay

Mrs. Elisa Acevedo Hernandez

Spain

Translator. Empodera consultores

Ms. Pauline Vuarin

France

Interpreter

Mr Javier González

Spain

Anthropologist. Coordinator of the Observatory of Crops Declared to be Illicit .

Raimunda de Oliveira Silva

Brazil

ENFOC. Brasilia

Alessandra Da Costa Lunas

Brazil

CONTAG

Mme Luciana Soumoulou

Argentine

Mr Diego Olivares Jansana

Chile

Empodera Consultores

Mr Kolyang Palebele.

Chad

Farmer and breeder. President of the National Council for Rural Dialogue and Cooperation, Chad. Vice-president of the PROPAC, platform of farmers' organisations of Central Africa (10 countries).

Mr Mathieu Perdriault

France

Agronomist. He works for AGTER, an association to contribute to improve the governance of land, water and natural resources.

Mr Pedro Avendaño

Chile

Vice-Rector of International Relations of the Universidad del Mar. Former Director of the World Forum of Fish Harvesters and Fish Workers.

Mr Pierre Mollo

France

French scientist, specialist in plankton. He has published several books on the subject. He uses images and documentaries to ensure the transmission of the knowledges to future generations. He, toghether with the OCEANOPOLIS Institute, is the webmaster of the website: www.plancton-du-monde.org .

Mr Richard Petris

France

Director of the Ecole de la paix (School of Peace)- Grenoble, France. It promotes the idea that peace is not simply the absence of war, but rather the result of an assortment of conditions that make it possible, among which one needs to underscore the promotion of dialogue and the combat for justice".