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1. EARTH DAY 2014: El Salvador faces critical environmental challenges: (Media Releases); FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE The United Nations(UN), has called on millions of people who on April 22 will celebrate Earth Day 2014 to focus on celebrating Green Cities to achieve a healthy and sustainable ...; Created on 23 April 2014
2. Public statement of the Local Governments of Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador, members of the Lempa River Trinational Border Association, regarding the “Cerro Blanco” mining project, developed by the ...: (Cerro Blanco); ... Study has not been approved by the Ministry of the Environment of Guatemala. 10. That, open pit mining means the removal of the surface layer of the earth to make mineral deposits accessible and therefore ...; Created on 12 June 2022
3. MIRIAN MIRANDA: There is a genocidal plan against the Garífuna people: (Regional News); ... do you have hope that this panorama will change? Yes, I have a hope in the sense that the earth will not withstand it. The planet is not resisting and that attracts attention of people. It seems serious ...; Created on 25 December 2021
4. Scientists, fishers say new mining deals to cause more damage than good: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... threats and intimidation, illegal arrests, harassment lawsuits, and forced displacement. For instance, in April last year, the Philippine police nabbed Roland Pulido, chairman of Didipio Earth Saver’s ...; Created on 24 May 2021
5. Canada’s Mining Industry Is Spreading Havoc Around the World — With Justin Trudeau’s Support: (Mining and Human Rights); ... forward with a highly contentious gold mine in one of the most biodiverse regions on Earth. According to Rosana Miranda of the São Paulo–based Amazon Watch, the company’s use of heavy metals and cyanide ...; Created on 07 May 2021
6. El Salvador’s Water Defenders and the Fight Against Toxic Mining: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... brutal killing. Who was the mastermind?” The second unknown was whether El Salvador could “possibly become the first nation on Earth to ban mining,” and the third was whether or not “little El Salvador ...; Created on 11 April 2021
7. An unlikely eco-alliance in postwar El Salvador: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... across the political spectrum? Luis Parada: In a country like El Salvador, which is a very small country, 8,000 square miles, very densely populated with risks of earthquakes, mudslides and a water crisis ...; Created on 22 March 2021
8. Gold mine fined $100,000. Toxic air pollution found at big mine near tiny town: (OceanaGold); ... “mercury in the mine was greater than previously estimated,’’ the enforcement order said. Mercury is sometimes found in the earth in areas where gold mining occurs. When gold is excavated and heated ...; Created on 12 February 2021
9. NEW BOOK: The water defenders - how ordinary people saved a country from corporate greed: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... all time, and this book honors those epic battles.” —Winona LaDuke, executive director, Honor the Earth, and author of To Be a Water Protector “In this gripping tale full of drama, plot twists, and, ...; Created on 14 January 2021
10. From dreams of gold to organic agriculture: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... of clay, which makes it difficult to grow other types of food. “We used to grow corn, beans and maicillo (sorghum) with chemical fertilizer. But we saw that these chemicals, instead of improving the earth, ...; Created on 05 January 2021
11. Reclaim Your Rights: Defend Indigenous People’s Lands: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... The railroading of public hearings for the Teesta dam, a China-funded hydropower project approximately worth $1 billion, poses threats to the earthquake-prone environment and customary rights of Lepcha ...; Created on 17 December 2020
12. Canadian corporate greed on display in Mexico mining dispute: (Regional News); ... with and trust in the company began rapidly eroding. Left with few avenues to resolve their concerns, including a lack of clean water, overpriced medicine, and a dearth of unionized jobs, the community ...; Created on 28 November 2020
13. Mining Injustice Through International Arbitration: (ISDS); Luis Solano | Ellen Moore | Jen Moore - IPS / Earthworks DOWNLOAD THE STUDY HEREAcross the Global South, and especially in Latin America, international mining companies have used a combination of disturbing ...; Created on 21 October 2020
14. After trying to protect water sources, these Hondurans have been held without bail for more than a year.: (Mining and Human Rights); ... his death in 2015. According to Earth Rights International, which is suing the World Bank for investing in the late Mr. Facussé’s Dinant Corporation, the company has been “at the center of a decades-long ...; Created on 25 September 2020
15. New Report: Mining Injustice Through International Arbitration: Countering Kappes, Cassiday & Associates’ Claims over a Gold-mining Project in Guatemala: (Regional News); Institute for Policy Studies EarthWorks 400 million suit against the Guatemalan government. Released today, Mining Injustice Through International Arbitration: Countering Kappes, Cassiday & Associates’ ...; Created on 24 August 2020
16. HONDURAS: Human rights defenders threatened by armed groups during quarantine: (Regional News); ... is intensifying the human rights crises in Honduras and Colombia," said EarthRights executive director Ka Hsaw Wa. "These governments are wisely protecting the public with measures of social isolation. ...; Created on 31 July 2020
17. Defending Land and Water from Mining Profiteers in the Time of Covid-19: (Regional News); ... Associate Fellow of the Institute for Policy Studies. This article is based on Voices from the Ground: How the Global Mining Industry is Profiting from the Covid-19 Pandemic, with contributions from Earthworks ...; Created on 23 July 2020
18. Anglo American responses to AGM queries raise more questions than they answer: (Mining and Human Rights); ... which is formed in this way, rises and is transported through the atmosphere in the form of clouds until it condenses and falls towards the earth in the form of precipitation. During its journey to the ...; Created on 22 July 2020
19. Social organizations reject militarization in five municipalities of Guatemala: (Regional News); ... Mother Earth has been defended from the onslaught of an agro-industry that depredates everything for its benefit," as the two organizations expressed in a conjunct statement. The suspension of the exploitation ...; Created on 20 July 2020
20. REPORT: Voices from the Ground: (General mining reports ); ... and governments are using the crisis to secure regulatory change that favours the industry at the expense of people and planet The report was jointly produced by Earthworks (USA), Institute for Policy ...; Created on 19 July 2020

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