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1. Is El Salvador preparing to reverse its landmark mining ban?: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); Mongabay Maxwell Radin El Salvador banned all mining of metals in 2017, but environmentalists are concerned that the government is preparing to reverse the decision and bring in international investment. The ...; Created on 03 April 2023
2. Reclaim Your Rights: Defend Indigenous People’s Lands: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... collective and continuous defense of ancestral land and territory, and assertion of their ways of life and the right to self-determination. As the pandemic ravages and the global crisis deepen, the world’s ...; Created on 17 December 2020
3. A Canadian Mining Giant Is Quietly Ramping Up Work in New Zealand. Locals Are Worried: (OceanaGold); VICE Anya Zoledziowski In the latest allegations against Canadian mining, conservationists say new projects could destroy protected lands and further harm endangered species. A Canadian-Australian ...; Created on 17 December 2020
4. 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
5. Defending Land and Water from Mining Profiteers in the Time of Covid-19: (Regional News); ... wetlands and glacier systems in the Andes, which are crucial sources of water for millions of people. Mining companies also have their sights set on the Amazon basin, the health and integrity of which ...; Created on 23 July 2020
6. The Salvadorean State has a pending debt with land defenders criminalized by mining companies: (Mining and Human Rights); ACAFREMIN Every year the inhabitants of the communities of Santa Rosa, Trinidad and La Maraña in the Department of Cabañas, fervently commemorate the life of land defenders Ramiro Rivera, Marcelo Rivera ...; Created on 26 December 2019
7. Honduran Land Defenders Receive the prestigious Letelier-Moffit award in Washington: (Regional News); Pedro Cabezas While the role of the Honduran president, Juan Orlando Hernandez, in a narcotrafficking ring led by his brother, Tony Hernadez, slowly unfolded in a court of Manhattan, New York, a little ...; Created on 24 October 2019
8. Land Defenders Are Killed in the Philippines for Protesting Canadian Mining: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... back against “development aggression,” or corporate activities imposed on Indigenous ancestral lands without tribal consent. Many of these ventures are helmed by Canadian corporations. Claver is one ...; Created on 04 October 2019
9. Mining Grabs Up Land, Deals Blow to Agriculture in Central America: (Background and reports ); ... “Where the mining company is operating was land that peasants leased to plant corn and beans, our staple crops. But since the company came in, there is no land left to farm,” said Lesbia Villagrán, who ...; Created on 07 May 2019
10. New Report Exposes Mining Companies Suing Latin American Countries Where Communities Defend Land and Environment: (FTAs & ISDS); ... of these cases, communities have been actively organizing to resist mining activities and defend their land, health, environment, self-determination, and ways of life. “Mining and other extractive ...; Created on 03 May 2019
11. Undermining the Land: the defense of community rights and the environment in Mexico: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... communities, organization that defend human rights, mining companies and public authorities. This report gives a voice to human rights defenders who are fighting for their right to land and a clean environment ...; Created on 23 April 2016
12. International community calls for release of El Salvador antimining activists: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... the world and was celebrated as a landmark step for environmental policy. But in recent years, President Nayib Bukele’s government has taken some steps that suggest it’s reconsidering its position on ...; Created on 20 December 2023
13. International Week of Action Free the Santa Marta 5: (Free the Santa Marta 5); ... on land located in areas of mining interest. On January 11, Salvadoran police arrested 5 Water Defenders from Santa Marta in Cabañas, including Antonio Pacheco, the director of the Salvadoran Economic ...; Created on 08 April 2023
14. El Salvador’s Historic Metal Mining Ban Is in Danger: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... the reversal of the mining ban by attacking land and water defenders, as Omar Flores of the National Roundtable Against Metallic Mining outlines: Nayib Bukele utilizes a narrative of hate and stigma against ...; Created on 06 April 2023
15. 250+ Groups Call On El Salvador to Drop Charges Against Water Defenders: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... from the communities that representatives of mining companies are visiting their territories to offer social programs and to lease large quantities of land." "With that in mind," Cabezas concluded, "the ...; Created on 20 January 2023
16. URGENT COMMUNIQUE: To the people of Asuncion Mita, the national and international community: (Cerro Blanco); ... created to organize the municipal consultation filed by Juan José Monroy González, assisted by lawyer Orlando Raúl López Salguero, on behalf of the association Mita Avanza, That the people of Asunción ...; Created on 23 September 2022
17. 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); ... can be described as one of the most aggressive industrial activities, environmentally, socially and culturally, because it generates great impacts on the natural and cultural landscape, pollutes the air, ...; Created on 12 June 2022
18. Communique: Community organizations fear the return of metal mining in El Salvador: (Media Releases); ... foster even more conflicts over land and water. In the same way, we demand that the Executive Branch and the Legislative Assembly refrain from repealing the prohibition law and we demand that the Intergovernmental ...; Created on 16 December 2021
19. Mining is not ‘recovery’: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... Marsh, one of the largest wetlands in the country, and further downstream to Davao Gulf and Sarangani Bay, affecting numerous terrestrial and marine species. ADVERTISING Of course, humans and their ...; Created on 02 June 2021
20. 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

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