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1. After trying to protect water sources, these Hondurans have been held without bail for more than a year.: (Mining and Human Rights); ... Mount “Carlos Escaleras” National Park. While these eight remain imprisoned, five others, who initially had the charges against them dropped after voluntarily presenting themselves to the courts, were ...; Created on 25 September 2020
2. The dilemma of artisanal miners after the mining prohibition in El Salvador: (Commerce Group); P. Cabezas A few weeks after the first anniversary of the mining ban in El Salvador environmental activists in the country are wondering how long before the ban is overturned. The ban approved with ...; Created on 07 May 2018
3. The negative legacy of mining in El Salvador continues after 100 years: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); P. Cabezas The Ministries of Economy, Environment, FIAES and the Maquilishuat foundation recently released a report on the environmental legacy and damages to health caused by mining operations abandoned ...; Created on 11 November 2015
4. International Week of Action Free the Santa Marta 5: (Free the Santa Marta 5); ... 2021, Salvadoran environmental organizations denounced that the government had joined the Intergovernmental Forum on Mining, a multilateral NGO that promotes “sustainable” mining, and shortly after, a ...; Created on 08 April 2023
5. El Salvador’s Historic Metal Mining Ban Is in Danger: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... are precarious to start with.” “Water Is More Important Than Gold” The Salvadoran mining ban was instituted in March 2017, after years of lobbying by scientists, environmentalists, labor groups, the church, ...; Created on 06 April 2023
6. Is El Salvador preparing to reverse its landmark mining ban?: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... decades speaking out contamination of water sources by mining projects, were arrested in January after mining officials visited their town of Santa Marta. MEXICO CITY — It was considered a major environmental ...; Created on 03 April 2023
7. 250+ Groups Call On El Salvador to Drop Charges Against Water Defenders: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... defenders and otherwise release them from prison to await their trial" came a day after a Salvadoran judge ruled that the case should proceed and the leaders of the Association of Economic and Social Development ...; Created on 20 January 2023
8. Santa Marta Community Leaders Are Persecuted in El Salvador: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... Marta expressed that it seemed "outrageous and suspicious" that the Salvadoran State is interested in promoting "a case" 31 years after the end of the Salvadoran civil war, and after over 40 years of "countless ...; Created on 19 January 2023
9. URGENT COMMUNIQUE: To the people of Asuncion Mita, the national and international community: (Cerro Blanco); ... is legal because the notification to the commission regarding the injunction was delivered three days after the consultation took place. In addition, there is relevant jurisprudence in three previous consultations ...; Created on 23 September 2022
10. PRESS RELEASE: The municipal consultation on Cerro Blanco mine is valid and legitimate: (Cerro Blanco); ... Church, civil society organizations, and representatives of the mining company Elevar Resources, who resigned from their positions shortly after the establishment of the commission. However, the observation ...; Created on 21 September 2022
11. Central American mayors reject mining exploitation that affects strategic river: (Cerro Blanco); ... "intends" to change the underground tunnel mining methodology, by open-pit mining. In 2007, the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources of Guatemala, after approving an environmental impact study, ...; Created on 12 June 2022
12. Central American mayors reject mining exploitation that affects strategic river: (Cerro Blanco); ... "intends" to change the underground tunnel mining methodology, by open-pit mining. In 2007, the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources of Guatemala, after approving an environmental impact study, ...; Created on 12 June 2022
13. MIRIAN MIRANDA: There is a genocidal plan against the Garífuna people: (Regional News); ... Honduras, who have been in jail since August 2019, after they were arrested in a protest against mining activities of a Honduran company). It is not possible that people who defend water have been deprived ...; Created on 25 December 2021
14. La Mesa releases a memoir of their collective struggle to ban mining in El Salvador: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... against metal mining in the country. After learning that metal mining in neighboring countries had caused environmental degradation, the loss of biodiversity and sources of water, and more importantly, ...; Created on 29 June 2021
15. Anglo American files lawsuit against Colombia: (ISDS); Minería Panamericana Anglo American mining company has filed a lawsuit against a ban preventing Colombian coal miner Cerrejón from developing its La Puente project. The latest lawsuit comes after Cerrejón ...; Created on 08 June 2021
16. Peru miners fall amid uncertainty over tight presidential election: (Mining and Human Rights); ... cents on the dollar. Five-year credit default swaps increased 7 basis points to 97 points. Until yesterday afternoon, with 93.8% of the votes counted in Sunday's election, Castillo leads with 50.2% ...; Created on 08 June 2021
17. In Guatemala, Harris Should Address U.S. Policies That Put Corporations Over People: (Mining and Human Rights); ... KCA’s assets. May 21, 2021 police action. Credit: Peaceful Resistance La Puya. The company’s assets were frozen in mid-2016 for illegal mineral extraction after it defied a court decision in late ...; Created on 07 June 2021
18. PBI-Guatemala accompanies the Peaceful Resistance of La Puya as court ruling gives mining company access to the site: (La Puya International Support Letter); ... Kappes, Cassiday & Associates, but retained an economic interest in the mine (including quarterly royalty payments on the gold production from the mine). On May 23, 2014, after two years of peaceful ...; Created on 22 May 2021
19. Community and environmental concerns not “pertinent” to Pan American Silver’s business: (Mining and Human Rights); ... Silver offloaded this project in 2012 after operating the mine for seventeen years, saying it trusted the responsibility of the incoming company to take care of workers and communities. But the new owners ...; Created on 17 May 2021
20. Why Canada is at the centre of global mining atrocities: (Mining and Human Rights); ... He moved to Canada in 2007 as a political refugee after he and his family were violently attacked in response to his activism. The ambush resulted in his wife’s death, and left Claver and his daughter ...; Created on 12 May 2021

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