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21. Sakharov Prize 2020: the nominees: (Mining and Human Rights); ... a recount of the votes had to flee to Lithuania in fear of imprisonment. In response to the allegations of electoral fraud, large peaceful protests have erupted across the country and were pushed back ...; Created on 29 September 2020
22. 5 Garífuna Leaders Are Still Missing in Honduras: (Regional News); ... no news of their whereabouts, and a tense atmosphere has taken over Triunfo de la Cruz. Several Garífuna communities across Honduras have protested, demanding the return of the same safe and sound under ...; Created on 03 September 2020
23. We Are in Danger Daily: Honduran Afro-Indigenous Garífuna Demand Return of Kidnapped Land Defenders: (Mining and Human Rights); ... the connections you see? CARLA GARCIA: The land that we preserve is rich. It’s rich. And it’s the same thing that the land that the Indigenous communities in Honduras — or across America, because if ...; Created on 17 August 2020
24. Defending Land and Water from Mining Profiteers in the Time of Covid-19: (Regional News); ... severe lockdown since March 15. This includes a 24-hour curfew and suspension of basic rights, including freedom of expression and assembly, with military and police enforcement. Across the country, ...; Created on 23 July 2020
25. World Environment Day with nothing to celebrate: (Regional News); ... General Assembly of the United Nations (UN) designated June 5 as World Environment Day. Since the 1970s, the UN has been developing initiatives, calls, and messages with the aim of raising awareness across ...; Created on 06 June 2020
26. Land Defenders Are Killed in the Philippines for Protesting Canadian Mining: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... frameworks. “We do not have firsthand knowledge of what is happening at other mine sites across the Philippines,” said OceanaGold spokesperson Melissa Bowerman. And yet, people who have been affected ...; Created on 04 October 2019
27. Marcelo's Legacy: The environmentalist who fought against metal mining in El Salvado: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... Central American Alliance Against Mining, (ACAFREMIN), Pedro Cabezas, says that the threat of mining continues nationally and across borders. “There are risks, (over) in the economic measures the current ...; Created on 18 September 2019
28. Getting the shaft on mining abuses: (Background and reports ); ... well-established history of horrific and systemic human rights abuses at Canadian mine sites across the globe. Reports by respected organizations like Amnesty International, Mining Watch Canada, Human ...; Created on 05 May 2019
29. New Report Exposes Mining Companies Suing Latin American Countries Where Communities Defend Land and Environment: (FTAs & ISDS); ... highlights that for the Canadian companies who pursue ISDS across all economic sectors, environmental policy is the fastest growing trigger for such cases. The report further finds that financial speculators ...; Created on 03 May 2019
30. Criminalisation brought to new extremes in case of Aymara indigenous communities in Peru: (Regional News); ... Court of Human Rights” Like many other criminalisation cases in Peru and across the region, this one must be understood in the broader context of the multiple forms of discrimination and prejudice faced ...; Created on 28 August 2018
31. 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
32. Water 2.0 - Salvadoreans take to the streets to battle renewed attempts to privatize water resources: (Water Crisis El Salvador); ... Tens of decentralized direct actions continue to occurr across the country. All of these actions are coordinated through a newly emerging coalition called the National Alliance against Water Privatization ...; Created on 24 June 2018
33. Threats to the Law Against Metallic Mining: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... expressed that the issue should be addressed regionally, since important rivers such as the Lempa, the main watershed in the national territory, are shared across the region and can be contaminated from ...; Created on 07 May 2018
34. How El Salvador Won on Mining: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... popular organizing, which American and other activists might want to pay attention to and learn from. It is also a tale of collaborations across causes, sectors, geographic areas, and national borders. ...; Created on 07 May 2018
35. Looming threats to the mining prohibition in El Salvador: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... World Bank, which also included the construction of 12 hydroelectric dams, and a highway across the mountainous region of the country to connect the economic activity resulting from these mega projects. ...; Created on 08 February 2018
36. Can Victory Over Irresponsible Mining in Central America Spur a Win in the Philippines?: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... Indeed, that vote ricocheted across the Pacific to the Philippines, which has emerged as one of the hot spots in the global fight of “water protectors” to end destructive industrial mining. In November ...; Created on 01 February 2018
37. How Local, Grassroots Organizing Drove El Salvador’s Mining Ban: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... precedent to bolster anti-fracking grassroots movements in different corners of the country. In El Salvador, the municipal referendums proved to be a powerful force, with ripple effects all across the ...; Created on 26 June 2017
38. Historic Wins for Democracy and Rights in El Salvador: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... but then a number of people visited large-scale mines just across the border in Honduras and returned home with horrifying tales of polluted water, health ailments, and rising conflict in the communities ...; Created on 26 June 2017
39. El Salvador becomes first country to ban metals mining: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... across all our operations,” OceanaGold stated in a media release February 14, 2017, the day it received the suspension order. Padilla begs to differ. “The reality of OceanaGold’s so-called ‘responsible ...; Created on 16 April 2017
40. Western University Professor Brings El Salvador Anti-Mining Struggle to Canadian Audience: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... The lecture focused on three main topics: the toxic legacy of the San Sebastian gold mine in the department of La Union, the looming threat of at least 28 mining concessions across El Salvador (particularly ...; Created on 08 March 2017

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