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1. Public statement from social movement organizations on the detention of members of the Santa Marta community and ADES in El Salvador: (Media Releases); ... Antonio Pacheco, executive director of the Association of Economic and Social Development - ADES Santa Marta-, and Saúl Agustín Rivas, legal adviser of the above-mentioned community organization. All ...; Created on 13 January 2023
2. ADES demands further investigation into the murder of Marcelo Rivera: (Mining and Human Rights); Six years after the assassination of Marcelo Rivera, family members and environmental leaders of Cabañas continue to demand justice. “We are outraged that after six years, families of people who worked ...; Created on 12 July 2015
3. ADES and MUFRAS 32 and the communities of Cabañas celebrate the IV Festival for the Human Right to a Healthy Environment: (Mining and Human Rights); ADES and MUFRAS 32 and the communities of Cabañas celebrate the IV Festival for the Human Right to a Healthy Environment By, Héctor Berrios On September 15, 2012 women, men, young people and children ...; Created on 24 September 2012
4. MIRIAN MIRANDA: There is a genocidal plan against the Garífuna people: (Regional News); ... based in Washington D.C. in the United States, which for almost six decades has been conducting research and supporting progressive social movements and leaders. In an interview with Mongabay Latam, ...; Created on 25 December 2021
5. Anglo American files lawsuit against Colombia: (ISDS); ... a figure that remained stable compared to the previous year, but the rail blockades in February and again throughout May limited supply to the maritime market. Cerrejón exported 13.6 million tons in 2020, ...; Created on 08 June 2021
6. PBI-Guatemala accompanies the Peaceful Resistance of La Puya as court ruling gives mining company access to the site: (La Puya International Support Letter); Peace Brigades International Brent Patterson On May 21, PBI-Guatemala posted: “PBI accompanies the Peaceful Resistance of La Puya in the symbolic act of handing over machinery to the mining company ...; Created on 22 May 2021
7. Why Canada is at the centre of global mining atrocities: (Mining and Human Rights); ... legislation exists which holds corporations accountable to their operations overseas.” For decades, advocates have been calling for legally-binding regulation of the industry and accountability for human ...; Created on 12 May 2021
8. Canada’s Mining Industry Is Spreading Havoc Around the World — With Justin Trudeau’s Support: (Mining and Human Rights); ... them permission to operate in spite of overwhelming local opposition. Over the past two decades, thousands of articles, reports, documentaries, and books have detailed Canadian mining abuses abroad. ...; Created on 07 May 2021
9. Environmental activists are being killed in Honduras over their opposition to mining: (Regional News); ... for Human Rights, Oxfam and the Canadian Peace Brigades. Under the Geneva Convention rules, the international community should condemn the state’s violence against environmental defenders and accept ...; Created on 06 May 2021
10. Swiss mining transnational Glencore in the Andes: (General mining reports ); ... it a very profitable operation for Glencore. Mining activity in Espinar began more than three decades ago, and the province still suffers from many basic deficiencies. Over this time, a number of conflicts ...; Created on 22 April 2021
11. El Salvador’s Water Defenders and the Fight Against Toxic Mining: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... like Vidalina Morales and Antonio Pacheco of the local Association for Economic and Social Development (ADES) were quickly alarmed by the dried-up springs and groundwater sources caused by the mine’s exploratory ...; Created on 11 April 2021
12. What Salvadoran Activists Can Teach Us About Building Coalitions: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... fight. A corollary of this lesson: Some in the private sector can emerge as comrades in a struggle that many perceive as anti-corporate. Granted, the water defenders in El Salvador had an advantage over ...; Created on 05 April 2021
13. WATER IS LIFE. CAN WE PROTECT IT?: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... river system that provides water for over half the country’s population. Over the past two decades, this river system was threatened by a giant mining company that wanted to mine gold near the rivers. ...; Created on 28 March 2021
14. An unlikely eco-alliance in postwar El Salvador: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... been under threat from international mining companies for decades, companies that are after El Salvador's gold. But an unlikely alliance came together to stop them. People on opposite sides of the bitter ...; Created on 22 March 2021
15. Canadian Mining Companies Are Devastating The Global South: (Mining and Human Rights); ... These cases are a stark reflection of the Canadian state’s methods here at home when faced with Indigenous people defending their land rights and the environment. The Wet’suwet’en blockades were met ...; Created on 21 January 2021
16. Vizcaya gov still opposes Didipio: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... the local governments from the barangay to the province, put barricades up in July 2019 to prevent the company from operating after its FTAA expired. The action was instrumental in forcing the company ...; Created on 08 January 2021
17. Disputes against governments under investment treaties: a growing trend in the mining industry in 2020: (ISDS); ... when poorly or hastily implemented, can affect the investments of mining investors. Environmental concerns have also led to instances of activist, local government or community "blockades" at sites. This ...; Created on 06 January 2021
18. From dreams of gold to organic agriculture: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... In 2014, the Association for Economic and Social Development (Asociación para el Desarrollo Económico y Social, ADES in its Spanish acronym), a community organization located in Cabañas, began promoting ...; Created on 05 January 2021
19. Reclaim Your Rights: Defend Indigenous People’s Lands: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... Hotels and Resort is on its way to displace around 11,000 Juma cultivators and six villages of indigenous Mro Community in Chittagong Hill Crest, Bangladesh. Arguing the Kenyan government’s forest conservation ...; Created on 17 December 2020
20. Sakharov Prize 2020: the nominees: (Mining and Human Rights); ... co-founder of the Council of Indigenous People of Honduras (COPINH). Over more than two decades, she was fighting against land grabbing, illegal logging and mega-projects. She was awarded the Goldman Environmental ...; Created on 29 September 2020

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