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1. Civil society presents a proposal for the Water Law in the Legislative Assembly: (Water Crisis El Salvador); Carlos Hernandez - Contrapunto Civil society organizations continue to pressure the Legislative Assembly to approve a General Water Law that would benefit the majority of the Salvadoran population. Representatives ...; Created on 20 April 2020
2. Salvadoran Civil Society Confronts World Bank on Pending Lawsuit on Mining: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); By Marina Bonetti Communities and organizations gathered in front of the World Bank in San Salvador to demand a fair verdict on the lawsuit of Pacific Rim vs El Salvador. After days of uninterrupted ...; Created on 27 October 2015
3. Communique: Community organizations fear the return of metal mining in El Salvador: (Media Releases); ... and civil society, among others”. In other words, it is the organization in charge of exchanging “mirrors for gold” on behalf of the mining industry. Similarly, it draws out attention the introduction ...; Created on 16 December 2021
4. Human Rights Advocates and Legal Experts Deliver Blueprint for New International Corporate Accountability Law in Canada: (Mining and Human Rights); ... to do its human rights and environmental due diligence, those affected would have the statutory right to bring a civil lawsuit against that company in Canadian court. “Canadian businesses that are already ...; Created on 21 May 2021
5. Why Canada is at the centre of global mining atrocities: (Mining and Human Rights); ... But Ivanhoe Mines is not the only Canadian company operating in the Philippines. While Claver said corporate mining ownership has been difficult for civil society to track due to a “global practice of ...; Created on 12 May 2021
6. Honduras: Supreme Court must correct distorted ruling & free arbitrarily detained Guapinol defenders: (Mining and Human Rights); ... including those set forth in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. Therefore, the State must immediately adopt the measures made by the Working Group. The release of the eight human ...; Created on 11 May 2021
7. A New Environmentalist Playbook An improbable victory in El Salvador offers lessons for grassroots activists worldwide: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... of Rivera’s death, and its similarity to tactics used by right-wing death squads in El Salvador’s civil war of the 1980s, the water defenders were undeterred. They launched an ambitious campaign seeking ...; Created on 23 April 2021
8. Swiss mining transnational Glencore in the Andes: (General mining reports ); ... have arisen due to reports of contamination of water, air and soil sources around the mining zone. Over the years several studies have been carried out by both national authorities and civil society organizations ...; Created on 22 April 2021
9. El Salvador’s Water Defenders and the Fight Against Toxic Mining: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... Arts. Soon they had more books than space and secured permission to use a municipal building that had been abandoned since the Civil War, when it was used to store corpses. The Rivera brothers and activists ...; Created on 11 April 2021
10. What Salvadoran Activists Can Teach Us About Building Coalitions: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... killed in El Salvador’s civil war. It thus took a great deal of courage for the water defenders to reach out to ARENA, as well as to the ultraconservative archbishop of San Salvador, the nation’s capital, ...; Created on 05 April 2021
11. An unlikely eco-alliance in postwar El Salvador: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... civil war from the 1980s came together to ban metal mining in El Salvador. The inside story is the subject of a new book. "The Water Defenders" coauthor Robin Broad joins us now, along with Luis Parada, ...; Created on 22 March 2021
12. Ottawa must disclose how it aided Goldcorp in human rights dispute, Federal Court will hear: (Mining and Human Rights); ... several civil society organizations. It asks the court to order Global Affairs Canada to remove the redactions on 20 pages of documents the department disclosed in response to an access-to-information ...; Created on 02 March 2021
13. Parliamentary Petition Calls on Canada to Act on Human Rights Abuses in the Philippines: (OceanaGold Philippines); Mining Watch A petition calling on the Canadian Government to act in response to increasing extrajudicial killings of civilians and human rights defenders in the Philippines will be tabled by the Member ...; Created on 25 February 2021
14. A Private Government in Honduras Moves Forward: (Mining and Human Rights); ... in the Próspera Charter. PZ's adjudicative system is designed to integrate common law as an alternative to the country’s civil legal system. It is made up of the Próspera Court and the Próspera Arbitration ...; Created on 15 February 2021
15. The Status of Investor-State Arbitration in Latin America in 2021: (ISDS); ... of an access channel to a coal seaport facility, the disruption of gold mining activities by ongoing civil strikes and illegal miners, the alleged expropriation of a local financial institution during ...; Created on 21 January 2021
16. 2020 in Review: Latin America and Investment Arbitration: (ISDS); ... assessing the evidence, the Tribunal seemed to have deviated from the preponderance of the evidence standard, which is customary in civil cases. Specifically, the Tribunal established that, to prove acts ...; Created on 19 December 2020
17. Anti-mining community, Gina Lopez awarded as heroes for the environment: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... as one of the founder of Sagipin ang Kalikasan organization. She was involved in an environmental investigative mission, together with civil society groups, on mining-affected areas that were later and ...; Created on 07 October 2020
18. Sakharov Prize 2020: the nominees: (Mining and Human Rights); ... Maryia Kalesnikava; and political activists Volha Kavalkova and Veranika Tsapkala - as well as and political and civil society figures - video blogger and political prisoner Siarhei Tsikhanouski; Ales ...; Created on 29 September 2020
19. 5 Garífuna Leaders Are Still Missing in Honduras: (Regional News); ... Róchez, and Junior Mejía—out of their homes. They have not been seen since. The men were kidnapped on a Saturday during which the State of Honduras restricted civilian movement due to Covid-19, allowing ...; Created on 03 September 2020
20. The Honduran government intensifies persecution against defenders of the Guapinol River: (Regional News); ... the COVID19 pandemic, to impose social control through the selective suspension of civil rights, criminalization of social protest and political harassment against human rights defenders. At the same time, ...; Created on 20 August 2020

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