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1. The Honduran government intensifies persecution against defenders of the Guapinol River: (Regional News); ... a regional pattern of political persecution, where the governments of Central America´s CA4 region (Honduras, Guatemala, Nicaragua and El Salvador) are utilizing confinement measures, in the context of ...; Created on 20 August 2020
2. Legal Defense: Honduran Courts Rule to Sustain Political Persecution in Guapinol Case: (Regional News); ConexiHon Legal Defense: Honduran Courts Rule to Sustain Political Persecution in Guapinol Case, August 17, 2020 Late last week, defense lawyers for the more than 20 environmental defenders from Tocoa, ...; Created on 18 August 2020
3. Public statement from social movement organizations on the detention of members of the Santa Marta community and ADES in El Salvador: (Media Releases); ... However, the actions against the members of Santa Marta and ADES do not seem like a genuine judicial action, rather, it appears to be an act of persecution and political revenge in line with the current ...; Created on 13 January 2023
4. In Guatemala, Harris Should Address U.S. Policies That Put Corporations Over People: (Mining and Human Rights); ... violence, intimidation, and threats, including an attempted murder. A number of them were also subject to drawn-out cases of legal persecution that have been criticized for failing to follow due process ...; Created on 07 June 2021
5. Environmental activists are being killed in Honduras over their opposition to mining: (Regional News); ... criminalization, social media attacks and constant threats. Several residents have been forced to flee Honduras to escape criminal persecution. Meanwhile, the state uses corruption and police repression ...; Created on 06 May 2021
6. Canadian corporate greed on display in Mexico mining dispute: (Regional News); ... can sometimes be enough to put communities in serious danger of legal persecution or violence. The community was quick to react, denouncing the company for continuing to treat them in an openly hostile ...; Created on 28 November 2020
7. The hidden connection between a US steel company and the controversial Los Pinares mine in Honduras: (Regional News); ... and without public announcement, the largest steel producer in the United States, the Nucor Corporation, spent at least four years associated with an iron mine in Honduras under fire for its presumed persecution ...; Created on 28 November 2020
8. How Honduras became one of the most dangerous countries to defend natural resources: (Mining and Human Rights); ... The community has been militarized, and its leaders subjected to threats, harassment and smear campaigns. Several residents fled, seeking asylum in the US to escape criminal persecution, in a case widely ...; Created on 07 October 2020
9. New Report: Mining Injustice Through International Arbitration: Countering Kappes, Cassiday & Associates’ Claims over a Gold-mining Project in Guatemala: (Regional News); ... with few legal protections and constant threats of violence and legal persecution. These suits reveal profound injustice built into the system,” Jen Moore, Associate Fellow, Institute for Policy Studies. ...; Created on 24 August 2020
10. We Are in Danger Daily: Honduran Afro-Indigenous Garífuna Demand Return of Kidnapped Land Defenders: (Mining and Human Rights); ... speaking to Democracy Now! from her home in Honduras in July. MIRIAM MIRANDA: [translated] What happened is a reflection of systemic persecution, systemic repression, but also a well-crafted plan by ...; Created on 17 August 2020
11. Defending Land and Water from Mining Profiteers in the Time of Covid-19: (Regional News); ... in front of court, government offices, or in city streets to be seen and heard. Even before the pandemic, the lives of water and land protectors have been increasingly at risk from legal persecution or ...; Created on 23 July 2020
12. In El Estor: a chain of breaches and contempt by CGN-PRONICO puts the lives of human rights defenders at risk: (Regional News); ... of its own employees, the mining company launched systematic persecution against the people, organizations and communities opposing mining contamination in Lake Izabal. The stigmatization and harassment ...; Created on 12 June 2020
13. International report finds that the Honduran government violates the rights of Tocoa's environmental defender: (Regional News); ... extractive activities of Inversiones los Pinares and the environmental impacts of its mining project with systematic criminalization, persecution and physical aggression against the inhabitants who seek ...; Created on 20 April 2020
14. Honduran Land Defenders Receive the prestigious Letelier-Moffit award in Washington: (Regional News); ... a permanent militarization of the region that has caused various local leaders to flee in fear of further persecution. In addition, there have been reports that private security forces have since been ...; Created on 24 October 2019
15. Central American antimining activists gather in El Salvador to discuss joint strategies for action: (Media Releases); ... persecution, judicialization and criminalization against community leaders who oppose mining projects. “The criminalization against land defenders and community leaders has been the government´s response ...; Created on 05 May 2019
16. Uncertainty in communities of Asuncion Mita due to the imminent reopening of the Cerro Blanco mine in Guatemala: (Cerro Blanco); ... be careful, because you already are already in their sights, they will make you disappear at any moment", he said. The fight against mining has generated, in effect, persecution and violence against ...; Created on 03 May 2019
17. Criminalization of the Aymara People - Supreme Court Will Decide on Aduviri Case on October 5th.: (Regional News); ... than one hundred national and international organizations have publicly denounced the criminalization of protest in Peru. The case of Aduviri is emblematic of the widespread judicial persecution and generalised ...; Created on 21 September 2018
18. Criminalisation brought to new extremes in case of Aymara indigenous communities in Peru: (Regional News); ... against him, and that he is facing political persecution. His case has been in the headlines at regional and national level, as well as being presented in international fora. Turning Point Importantly, ...; Created on 28 August 2018
19. Central Americans Demand to be Consulted About Mining Projects: (Regional News); ... for example, it only contributes one percent of GDP and 0.66 percent of employment. On the other hand, the participants in the forum denounced the police and judicial persecution suffered by environmentalists ...; Created on 09 May 2018
20. A year with a bitter taste in environmental matters in El Salvador: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... to the persecution of water defenders," said Ramírez. El Salvador concludes 2017 with a bitter taste victory since, despite having approved a law against metallic mining, there are still other laws that ...; Created on 01 February 2018

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