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21. Land Defenders Are Killed in the Philippines for Protesting Canadian Mining
(OceanaGold Philippines)
... that the military was behind any killings of environmentalists or land defenders. “These, again, are mere accusations against the AFP to discredit the government and tarnish our reputation,” he said. Arevalo ...
Created on 04 October 2019
22. Marcelo's Legacy: The environmentalist who fought against metal mining in El Salvado
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
... Cabañas, El Salvador to plant the seeds for our fight and environmental defense. Remembering was the key word of environmentalists and social organizations commemorating the tenth anniversary of the ...
Created on 18 September 2019
23. Central American antimining activists gather in El Salvador to discuss joint strategies for action
(Media Releases)
... movements, environmentalists and human rights defenders gathered in El Salvador to participate in the IV Regional Meeting of the Central American Alliance against Mining -ACAFREMIN. The meeting aimed ...
Created on 05 May 2019
24. Uncertainty in communities of Asuncion Mita due to the imminent reopening of the Cerro Blanco mine in Guatemala
(Cerro Blanco)
... replaced, and the new team approved the same study". Environmentalists charge that since 2013, workers of the mine have been pumping boiling sulphured, thermal waters into the Ostua river wich leads ...
Created on 03 May 2019
25. Founding statement: National Alliance against Water Privatization in El Salvador
(Media Releases)
San Salvador June 16, 2018 This morning members of more than seventy social organizations, environmentalists, youth, women groups, churches, unions and universities across the country marched through ...
Created on 25 June 2018
26. El Salvador: first anniversary of the mining ban A cause for celebration, but the new law faces dangers
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
... accompanied by the Catholic Church, environmentalists, academic institutions, broad-based social movements and a variety of other actors. Mining in El Salvador. Video by ACISAM Bills to prohibit ...
Created on 22 June 2018
27. Central Americans Demand to be Consulted About Mining Projects
(Regional News)
... for example, it only contributes one percent of GDP and 0.66 percent of employment. On the other hand, the participants in the forum denounced the police and judicial persecution suffered by environmentalists ...
Created on 09 May 2018
28. Threats to the Law Against Metallic Mining
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
... with the idea of ​​"Responsible Mining". But González affirms that there is no socially responsible mining that replaces what is lost in the ecosystems through extractive activity. Environmentalists also ...
Created on 07 May 2018
29. How El Salvador Won on Mining
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
... Bad River coming to support Planned Parenthood and vice versa,” he says. Imagine teachers, farmers, environmentalists, health workers, all working together. “That’s how they got the ban. There’s a lot ...
Created on 07 May 2018
30. A year with a bitter taste in environmental matters in El Salvador
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
... and environmentalists have suffered criminalization by the Salvadoran authorities. Community leaders of Tacuba were found guilty and sentenced to pay fines for a crime they did not commit, explained Karen ...
Created on 01 February 2018
31. How Local, Grassroots Organizing Drove El Salvador’s Mining Ban
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
* Yevgeniya Yatsenko and Sebastian Rosemont : Foreign Policy in Focus U.S. environmentalists take note: El Salvador's activists proved that a national consensus on environmentalism can be forged one town ...
Created on 26 June 2017
32. El Salvador Passes Historic Law To Ban Metal Mining
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
Sebastian Rosemont: Huffinton Post The vote marked the culmination of a decade of pressure from activists, environmentalists and the Catholic church. In an historic vote, El Salvador became the first ...
Created on 16 April 2017
33. Social Movements Demand Blunt Action to Prohibit Mining
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
... has been happening for more than 10 years, and that debate has even had unfortunate consequences such as the murders of environmentalists.  This can be closed with 43 votes of the Legislative Assembly, ...
Created on 15 February 2017
34. PRESS RELEASE: Permanent Alert against Metallic Mining in El Salvador
(Media Releases)
... deeds, the foundation deepens the level of social unrest in the communities which has already taken the life of 5 environmentalists and continuing death threats to many more. III.- It is urgent to close ...
Created on 04 January 2017
35. Alejandro Guevara: “It was the communities who built the resistance against metallic mining”
(Mining and Human Rights)
... anniversary mass and community event that honored the memory of environmentalists Marcelo Rivera, Dora Sorto, her unborn son (Enmanuel), and Ramiro Rivera. The mass held at the community of La Trinidad, ...
Created on 03 January 2017
36. Fifth referendum on mining is called in Cinquera, Cabañas
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
... in the neighboring department of Chalatenango have conducted referenda where 99% of the population said no to mining in their lands.  It is now Cinquera´s turn, and environmentalists expectations a positive ...
Created on 03 January 2017
37. Bishop Rauda: Mining is not a question of right or left, it is a question of life or death!
(Pacific Rim/OceanaGold)
... then we repopulated Santa Marta and we lived in peace until the Pacific Rim arrived. What's more shocking is that environmentalists were murdered, even a pregnant woman. It was very hard for us, we're still ...
Created on 10 November 2016
38. Mega projects unite social movements from Honduras and El Salvador
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
... their interventions in the region," he said. The "binational meeting" of social organizations, environmentalists and indigenous peoples took place in the mountains of Arcatao, Chalatenango, where they ...
Created on 17 September 2016
39. El Salvador: ‘We will never lose our faith’
(Pacific Rim/OceanaGold)
... El Salvador we have had four environmentalists murdered including Dora Sorto who was eight months pregnant. Without a doubt, the struggle to defend our territories and to protect the environment is alive ...
Created on 19 March 2016
40. Research reveals that right wing parties collaborate with mining companies in the department of Cabanas.
(Pacific Rim/OceanaGold)
... companies who are blamed for  the murder of environmentalists in exchange for favors. "The activities of the foundation are being facilitated by right wing mayors in areas," revealed the researcher. She ...
Created on 07 March 2016
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