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1. Environmental activists are being killed in Honduras over their opposition to mining: (Regional News); ... who have opposed the mine have been killed, putting its owner, Inversiones Los Pinares, at the centre of a deadly environmental conflict in the mineral-rich Bajo Aguán region. Local communities are concerned ...; Created on 06 May 2021
2. Land Defenders Are Killed in the Philippines for Protesting Canadian Mining: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... killed between 2001 and 2019, according to the Kalikasan People’s Network for the Environment, a network of Philippine environmental organizations. More than half of them were protesting mines, like the ...; Created on 04 October 2019
3. International Week of Action Free the Santa Marta 5: (Free the Santa Marta 5); ... 30 years ago. Now, like thousands of other prisoners in El Salvador, they are in grave danger of dying or being killed while awaiting an opportunity to prove their innocence. Their families and legal team ...; Created on 08 April 2023
4. El Salvador’s Historic Metal Mining Ban Is in Danger: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... dozens of cases that have been started by survivors of military massacres that have not gone to trial. Three specific cases are those of the Lempa massacre (forty-three killed, 189 disappeared), the Los ...; Created on 06 April 2023
5. Salvadoran environmental defenders detained for decades-old crimes: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... of whom were civilians killed by the US-backed dictatorship and rightwing death squads. The military is accused of dozens of human rights violations and crimes against humanity in Santa Marta, the community ...; Created on 04 April 2023
6. MIRIAN MIRANDA: There is a genocidal plan against the Garífuna people: (Regional News); ... people. In the last five years alone, more than 50 Garífuna men and women have been killed; 30 have been jailed and 32 have a court order, prosecuted for the alleged usurpation of their own ancestral ...; Created on 25 December 2021
7. Why Canada is at the centre of global mining atrocities: (Mining and Human Rights); ... killings of Indigenous leaders, the classification of activists as terrorists, and the bombing of Indigenous schools,” Asuncion said. From 2010-2016, at least 73 Indigenous peoples were killed in the ...; Created on 12 May 2021
8. Swiss mining transnational Glencore in the Andes: (General mining reports ); ... in which to be a defender. 64 community and social leaders were killed in 2019 according to reports from Global Witness, while Front Line Defenders affirms that of the 177 Human Rights defenders murdered ...; Created on 22 April 2021
9. El Salvador’s Water Defenders and the Fight Against Toxic Mining: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... of a well. “Though we never met Marcelo,” they write on the second page, “we have been haunted by him and the circumstances of his death ever since. Who killed Marcelo? And why?” The authors go on ...; 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. Families complain about big SC gold mine, citing danger and community disruption: (OceanaGold); ... too much cyanide. The releases also killed water bugs. OceanaGold’s most recently disclosed troubles follow three separate DHEC enforcement cases involving the Haile Gold Mine. The agency said in September ...; Created on 02 April 2021
12. Gold mine expansion could produce $2.5 billion. But environmental problems linger: (OceanaGold); ... In one case from November, wastewater from the mining site was so toxic that it killed every water bug tested, DHEC says. One way wastewater discharges are tested is by exposing tiny bugs to the water ...; Created on 30 March 2021
13. An unlikely eco-alliance in postwar El Salvador: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... the unsolved murder of one of the environmental activists killed in the lead up to this mining ban. Marcello Rivera was his name. Who was he and how did his story resonate with Salvadorans across the political ...; Created on 22 March 2021
14. Parliamentary Petition Calls on Canada to Act on Human Rights Abuses in the Philippines: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... 50 defenders killed in 2019 For more on mining-related human and environmental abuses, see MiningWatch Canada and Institute for Policy Studies. OceanaGold in the Philippines: Ten Violations that Should ...; Created on 25 February 2021
15. Reclaim Your Rights: Defend Indigenous People’s Lands: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... and terror has been the weapon of the State’s laws and armed forces to silence all resistance. Around 40% of land defenders killed around the world belong to indigenous communities even though they make ...; Created on 17 December 2020
16. Anti-mining community, Gina Lopez awarded as heroes for the environment: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... killed. In the same report, mining was cited as the “deadliest” sector. Last week, September 28, the Center for Environment Concerns – Philippines (CEC) recognized the valiant environment defenders who ...; Created on 07 October 2020
17. How Honduras became one of the most dangerous countries to defend natural resources: (Mining and Human Rights); ... in power despite multiple allegations of corruption, electoral fraud and links to international drug trafficking networks. Since then, hundreds of defenders have been killed, and many others silenced ...; Created on 07 October 2020
18. After trying to protect water sources, these Hondurans have been held without bail for more than a year.: (Mining and Human Rights); ... to Global Witness, Honduras is one of the most dangerous countries in the world to be an environmental activist. Over the past two decades, more than 100 farmers in the Bajo Aguán have been killed in incidents ...; Created on 25 September 2020
19. We Are in Danger Daily: Honduran Afro-Indigenous Garífuna Demand Return of Kidnapped Land Defenders: (Mining and Human Rights); Democracy Now At least 212 land and environmental defenders were murdered last year — the highest number since the group Global Witness began gathering data eight years ago. Some 40% of those killed ...; Created on 17 August 2020
20. Pandemic fuels mining extraction in Latin America: (Regional News); ... territory, of indigenous peoples and of the environment has increased dramatically. According to the NGO Front Line Defenders, 304 activists were killed in Honduras in 2019. The number of cases has quadrupled ...; Created on 09 August 2020

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